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toes, 28 lbs. 6 oz. : some Kidneys, net produce from one seedling 

 potato, weighing less than 2 oz,, J4lbs. 2 oz., (Banksian Medal 

 awarded.) 



From ]Mr. Robert Errington, Gardener to Sir Philip Egerton, 

 Bart., F.H.S., specimens of the Dume low's Seedliti!r Apple. 



From Mr. Benjamin Fielder, Gardener to William Linwood, 

 Esq., F.H.S., a handsome plant of Cyrtopodium Andersonii, {Certi- 

 ficate awarded.) 



From Messrs. Chapman, of Brentford, samples of their New 

 Potato. 



From the Garden of the Society, a collection of plants including 

 Aspasia epidendroides ; a fine variety of Oncidium ampliatum, Be- 

 gonia viti folia, Amaryllis crassicaulis, Odontoglossum pulchellum 

 and Mirbelia ledifolia, with cut Jlowers of a species of Salvia. 



The following Cuttings of Pears were also distributed j 



Knight's Monarch : the original tree of which excellent variety 

 was raised at Wormsley Grange, near Hereford, where Mr. Knight 

 had a Nursery of seedling fruit-trees. In collecting and trans- 

 ferring cuttings of various kinds of these, for the purpose of 

 grafting at Downton Castle, (a distance of more than twenty- 

 miles,) a very inferior sort was substituted for the Monarch, by the 

 mistake of some persons employed in the transfer ; in which how- 

 ever neither Mr. Knight nor his Gardener were concerned. Cut- 

 tings of this spurious sort were distributed, before Mr. Knight 

 was aware of the circumstance ; it grows with extraordinary 

 vigour ; the wood is very dark-coloured, or almost black, armed 

 with strong prickles, as long as those on the cock-spur thorn. 

 The true sort, now distributed from a tree which fruited last season 

 in the Society's Garden, has shoots of a yellowish tinge. 



Allhorp Crassane, an excellent Autumn variety, found to suc- 

 ceed well as a standard. 



TVinier Crassane : a most abundant bearer, as a standard, with 

 the flavour of the old Crassane. 



The following present was announced : 



The Botanical Register, for March, from the Publisher. 



March 7, 1S41. 

 GARDEN COMMITTEE. 



The following Reports were laid before the Committee. 



During the past year, various experiments have been in pro- 

 gress to ascertain what effects would be produced upon plants by 



