PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF LONDON, 



1840. 



No. XIIL 



September 1, 1840. 

 ORDINARY MEETING. 



The following Fellow was elected j 



The Right Hon. Algernon Lord Prudhoe, 37, Albemarle 

 Street, and Stanwick Park, Darlington. 



The following letter to the Vice Secretary was read, from 

 Robert Atherton Hornby, Esq., F.H.S. 



Lausanne, August, 17, 1840. 

 Dear Sir, — I know not whether you may be aware of a prac- 

 tice which has only come under my observation of late ; if not, 

 its apparent utility is such that I make no apology for commu- 

 nicating it to the Society at once ; and I will do so by copying 

 the note which I made upon the spot, as the most satisfactory 

 means of avoiding any false inductions of my own. " Pears, 

 grafted on the stock of the Mountain- Ash, (Fogcl-Beer, Pyrus 

 Aucuparia,) by Herr Weimar, Forsthaus, Ems. The practice 

 derived from Herr Roth, Ober-forster, now resident in Alten- 

 kirchen, not far from Limburg, Duchy of Nassau. He lived 

 formerly at Ober Ems, Amt Idstein, Nassau ; in his garden 

 there, he had in 181*2 trees of full growth thus worked. The 

 crops were there abundant and sure ; in a climate and site, on 

 the high plateau of the Taunus Mountain where neither pear 



