PRUCKKDINCM or I IlK 



The followinc: wero the prim ipal subjects of exhi})iti()n j 



From Mr. William Tillory, Gardener to His (Jra(v the Duke 

 of Portland, Works(»p, very fine specimens of Citrous, Ornugcs, 

 ant! I.tinons ; with fruit of Cattley's (iuava and eut llowers of 

 tluM rimson and white varieties of l^oiiisctlia imlclu rrinid, (Silvku 

 KsKiiiriAN iMkdal awarded for the former) ; tliese were accom- 

 panied by a note, from which the following is an extract. 



" Tlie oblonj; fruit is the Madras citron, or Pimimclow ; the 

 round, the shjiddo(*k grafted on the citron. The jdant that 

 produced them is trained at the back of a large conservatory 

 liere. and has been planted about eight years ; it has ripened ten 

 of its noble fruit this year, the two I send being the averap;e size. 

 I fuid it likes plenty of bottom heat, as the tub it is planted in is 

 behind the hot-water ap})aratus that heats the house. 



" 'J'he specimens of oranges and lemons are from trees planted 

 out in tlie borders of the same house. Two lemon trees here 

 liave produced more than 400 fruit and are preferred to the 

 foreign at table. The (ruava, trained on the back of the same house, 

 has ripened two or three dishes weekly all through the winter, 

 and is preferred here for the desert to any fruit. When well 

 ripened, the berries become as black as sloes and are really de- 

 licious, resembling a strawberry in flavour ; we find no difficulty 

 in their setting, as we have always to thin them out to get them 

 line." 



From Mr. James Duncan, Gardener to Joseph Martineau, 

 Esq., F.H.S., fruit of the (Passi/lora edulis) eatable Passion 

 (lower. They were stated to be the produce of a plant from 

 which an incredible number of fruit had been gathered in sue * 

 cession, from the latter end of June up to the present period. 

 The plant was a seedhng, which was turned out into a corner of 

 a bark-bed in early spring; so soon as its shoots had grown a 

 few feet, a square of glass was extracted from the end of the 

 liouse and a portion of the shoots was introduced into an adjoin- 

 ing greenhouse, where they were trained on the rafters, in festoons, 

 in conjunction with the beautiful Passijiora kermesina, with an 

 exceedingly good effect ; the shoots that were trained in the 

 stove began to ripen their fruit about the latter end of June, 

 and those in the greenhouse have continued the succession up to 

 this time. 



From John Reeves, Esq., F.H.S., a basket of imported Fruit 

 of the Stoneless Litchi. 



From James Bateman, Esq., F.H. S , flowers of Dendrobium 

 moniliforme and Oncidium Cavendishianum, (Silver Knightian 

 Medal awarded.) 



From Mrs. Lawrence, F.H.S., among many other fine plants, 

 a noble specimen of Brassia maculata, (the Silver Knightian 

 Medal awarded.) 



