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on Mr. Ciirric's premises. This was a very remarkable specimen, 

 about three yards long, and resembling an immense mass of 

 human hair, its div isions being as fine as that substance and coal 

 black. 



From .\ylmer Bourke Lambert, Esq., F. H. S-, an enormous 

 specimen of Ec/iiriocacttis cdulis. 



From Messrs. Chandler and !^ons, a Collection of Chrysanthe- 

 mums. 



From Mr. Gaines, of Battersea, a Collection of Heartsease. 



From Hasler Hollist, Esq., F. H. S., a Collection of eight sorts 

 of Potatoes, and three sorts of Apples. 



From Mrs. Laurence, F. H. S., the following Orchidaceous 

 plants, viz. Zygopetalum Mackaianum, Zygopetalum interme- 

 dium, and Epidendrum nutans, (the Silver Knigiitian Meoal 

 awarded). 



From Mr. Jackson, of Kingston, a Collection of Cape Heaths, 

 (the Silver Banksian Medal awarded.) 



From Mr. John Green, Gardener to Sir Edmund Antrobus, 

 Bart., F. H. S,, a collection of Stove and Greenhouse Plants, 

 a Seedling Shrubby Cineraria, and six Sion House Cucumbers, 

 grown in pots, (the Silver Banksian Medal awarded for the 

 last.) 



From Mr. Charles Edmonds, Gardener to His Grace the 

 Duke of Devonshire, a collection of Chrysanthemums, and Beau- 

 fortia decussata. 



From Mr. John Moore, Gardener to R. Hanbury, Esq., Stam- 

 ford Hill, a plant of Phaius grandifolius. 



From Mr. Henry Crace, of Lennard Place, St. John's Wood, 

 fine specimens of the Marie Louise Pears, from standards, with 

 the following note. 



St. Johns Wood, Nov. 30, 1840. 

 I beg to offer to the Horticultural Society, a few Marie 

 Louise Pears, which I have been enabled to keep to this late 

 period by a system of treatment, a short account of which I here 

 annex. I selected a tree trained downwards in the Balloon style, 

 and in the winter, as is my usual custom, I cut round the roots, 

 about three feet from the stem, extending each year the length 

 of cutting, (in consequence of having only nine inches of natural 

 earth above a rank gravelly clay). About June I covered the 

 ground round the tree, with rotten manure and occasionally 

 watered it through the manure until the month of October. In 

 August I cut olF the whole of the upright strong shoots of this 

 year's growth, by which plan, it appears to me that 1 throw the 

 whole strength of the tree into the fruit. At the same time 

 being much annoyed by the birds, I netted the tree, with some 

 very fine fruit on it. About the first of October I matted up 

 the south and west side of the tree, leaving it open to the north- 



