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The following prescnls wore annouiued : 



The Alhena-um for May, tVoin the Kditor. 

 The Floricultural Cahintt, for June, from Mr. Jos. Harrison. 

 liaxter's lirilish Flotifritig Plants, No. I07, from Mr. VVm. 

 l^axU*r. 



No. 15, of the Ldily's Flower (iardcn of Ornamental Bulbous 

 Plants, from Mrs. Lomloii. 



Transactions of the Ilotjal Society of FAiiihur<^h, Vol. 15, Part I. 

 from till" Society. 



Transactions of the Horticultural Society of Berlin, Vol. 15, 

 Part II., from the Society. 



Paxton's MaL^azine of Botany, for June, from the Editor. 



The First Additional Supjdement to London's F.ucycLopa'.dia of 

 Plants, from the Kditor. 



Notice sur Ic Cypris. Fxanu n dc cette (juestion : Convient it de 

 cultiver les pins dans le inidi ? Observations sur le remplacenient 

 des arbres des promenades pnbliques de Montpellier. Observations 

 agronomiqucs. Notice sur i Arachide. Quel nom faut il donner au 

 Platane que nous cultivons P Note sur la tuille des arbres destinies 

 a fournir du bois de cliauff'age pour les Menageries. Observations 

 sur les semis et les plantations des chines verts. Fragments d' Agro- 

 nomic. Notice sur le Platane. From the Author, Mons. D. 

 Bouchet, C.M.H.S. 



July 5, 1841. 



GARDEN COiMiMITTEE. 



Mr. Thompson reported from the Orchard and Kitchen 

 Garden Department, that a plant of Sea kale, mentioned in the 

 last report as having had a pound of undissolved nitrate of 

 Soda strewed over its foliage has since proved uninjured. Thus 

 >vhilst some species of plants are destroyed by a small quantity 

 of this salt, the Sea kale, and the Cabbage tribe generally, appear 

 to be proof against its destructive effects. 



Chloride of Lime has been tried unsuccessfully against the 

 American blight on trees ; the glaucous, woolly covering of the 

 Aphis proving a complete protection. The same tree was 

 syringed with a solution of half a pound of Potash, with very 

 little effect on the insects beyond the mechanical removal of such 

 of them as were not well secured in crevices of the bark. 



