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From Mr. John Halliday, Gardener to Lord Sondes, F.H.S., 

 Black Hamburgh Grapes, with the following memorandum. 

 " These were cut from vines planted April, 1839 ; and the fruit 

 has been fit to send to table since September. The depth of the 

 border in which the vines are planted is not more than two feet 

 three inches, with about a foot of drainage underneath. There 

 has been no fire put to the house for a month past so that the 

 grapes have had to take their chance during the late hard weather, 

 during which the temperature was as low as 6° Fahr. The 

 grapes will not keep any thing like so long in the other houses 

 here, where the borders average about six feet in depth." 



From the Garden of the Society, a collection of Stove and 

 Greenhouse plants, including Lopezia lineata, a new greenhouse 

 shrub from Mexico, with lively brick-red flowers : and many 

 varieties of Pears and Apples. Among the latter the more 

 remarkable were the Boston Russet and the Beachamwell seed- 

 ling, both admirable kinds. 



The followiDg presents were announced 3 



Paa:tori,s Magazine of Botany, for December and January, from 

 the Publishers. 



Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, Vol. 2. 

 Part 1, from the Society. 



The AthencEum, for December, from the Editor. 



Baxter's British Flowering Plants, No. 102, from the Author. 



The Ladies' Flower Garden of Ornamental Bulbous Plants, 

 No. 10. from Mrs. Loudon. 



Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, No. 13. 

 from the Society. 



The Floricultural Cabinet, No. 95. from Mr. Jos. Harrison. 



Description d'une nouvelle espece de Figuier, (Ficus Saussureana) 

 and Sme notice sur les plantes rares cultivees dans le Jardin de 

 Geneve, from the Authors, M. M. Aug. Pyr. et Alph. de CandoUe. 



Flora Batava, No. 121, from H. M. the King of Holland. 



Constitution^ Bye Laws, Proceedings ^c. of the Pensylvanian 

 Hort. Soc, from the Society. 



February 1, 1841. 



GARDEN COMMITTEE. 



Mr. Thompson reported from the Fruit Department, that 

 keeping fruit in kiln-dried straw had been found to ansv er very 

 well. It does not acquire the dampness, nor the musliness, 

 which straw does when not deprived of its natural moisture. 



