PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF LONDON, 



184L 



No. XIV. 



January 4, 1841. 

 GARDEN COMMITTEE. 



Mr. Fortune reported from the Hothouse Department that 

 " Whittaker's Composition," a substance advertised for the de- 

 struction of the insects called scale and green fly, had been tried ; 

 but that the results had not been satisfactory. It appears to de- 

 stroy the plants without affecting the insects which infest them. 

 He did not find that it injures the roots of plants, when used in 

 the proportion which is necessary for the destruction of worms, 

 and therefore it may be employed for that purpose in the same 

 way as lime-water, or any acid. 



January 19, 1841. 

 ORDINARY MEETING. 



The following were elected Fellows of the Society ; 



Miss Mary Elizabeth Remnant, 41, Tavistock Square. 



William Tinkler, Esq., Chilworth House, Guildford. 



The following were also, upon the recommendation of the 

 Coimcil, elected Foreign Corresponding Members 3 



Nathaniel Lucas, Esq., H. M. Packet Agent, Rio Janeiro. 



M. I'Abbe Berleze, Secretar}^ of the Royal Horticultural Society 

 of Paris, 



