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From Mr, Michael Martin, Thames Bank, Pimlico, a bmnch of 

 fine J^paragus. 



From Mr. Harrison Scott, of No. 12, Cbarltoo Street, New 

 Road, specimens of Scott's Improted Metal Pipes. 



From the Garden of the Society, were the following plants. 

 Oncidium cebolleta, the large and small varieties of O. ampUatitm, 

 O. leucochiluniy O. altisiimum, Dendrobium secundum^ D. asgre^ 

 gatum, and Acacia Rlceana ; with Cuttings of the Royale Hdiice 

 Plum, an early purple sort of exceedingly rich flavour, and of 

 the following Pears: Knight's Monarch, stated to be hardy and a 

 good bearer, with rich and melting fruit which will keep till 

 Janiiar\- : filnter Crassane, another hardy variety raised by 

 Mr. Knight, with the flavour of the Old Crassane, and bearing 

 most abundantly as a standard j I'icar of ff'inkneld, a large long 

 somewhat tapering fruit, with melting and buttery flesh, keeping 

 till January : the tree is \igorous and bears as a standard. 



The following presents were announced : 



The Atherutum for February, from the editor. 



The Botanical Register for March from the publishers. 



The Indian Hand Book of Gardening, or the Guide to the 

 Management of the Kitchen, Fruit, and fiotcer Garden in India, by 

 G. T .F. Speede ; from the author. (8vo. Calcutta 1S42.) 



Catalogue des plautes erposees les 26, 27, & 2S, Fee. 1S43 a 

 f erposition puhUque ( 48^ ) de la SocUle <f Horticulture <£ Anzers ; 

 from the Society. 



The Illustrated Polytechnic Reriew No. 9., from the editor. 



March 21, 1S43. 



ORDINARY MEETING. 



The following candidates were elected fellows of the Society : 



Mr. W. H. Holmes, Nurseryman, Sudbury, Derbyshire. 

 Mr. William Edgecumbe Rendle, Union Road Nursery, 

 Plymouth. 



An extract from a letter, received by Lord Stanley from the 

 Lieutenant Governor of the Falkland Islands, was read, containing 

 an account of the Tnssac grass which abounds there. It stated 

 that seed of the Tussac grass had been sown in the Government 

 garden at a little distance from the sea in good soil but different 

 from that in which it grows naturally. The young plants had shot 

 up, and seemed Ukely to prove that this gross may be cultivated 

 in any soil, although it evidently preferred moist places and would 

 probably require irrigation in a dry soil. Id the Falklands it was 

 found to flourish most vigorously in spots exposed to the sea 



