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effect upon them of different soils. One planted on the 26th 

 of April, when weighing 2.6 grains, in soil composed in 100 

 parts ; of Silica 75, Alumina 15, and Carbonate of Lime 10, 

 was watered with 3 oz. 5 dr. of distilled water, and after- 

 wards \sith hcdf an ounce of the same every day. On the 30th 

 of July it was in a dying state and weighed 42.5 grains. Another 

 planted on the Sth of May, in peat and loam, and weighing 2.6 

 g-rains, was watered in the usual way and weighed on the 30th 

 of July 192.5 grains. Both plants were grown in gla?s pots. 

 The experiment was made to ascertain how far it is possible to 

 make plants grow without those elementary substances usually 

 considered as forming their food. 



From Mr. Spencer, Gardener to the Marquess of Lansdowne, 

 Bowood Park, a handsome Queen Pine Apple, weighing 5 lbs. 

 12 oz. (Banksiax Medal awarded.) 



From Mr. W. Dunsford, Gardener to J. D. Davenport, Esq., 

 Capesthorne Gardens, near Congleton, Cheshire, a Pine Jpple, 

 weighing 7 lbs. 1 oz. 



From Mr. Jones, Gardener to the Baron Dimsdale, of Cam- 

 field Place, near Hatfield, Herts., a fine specimen of the Cayenne 

 Pine Apple on a plant. (Certificate awarded.) 



From Mr. G. Fleming, Gardener to His Grace the Duke of 

 Sutherland, at Trentham, an extremely fine specimen of the 

 Hoosainee Melon, weighing 10 lbs., it had been grown upon a 

 plant situated in a Fig-house, being placed in a small pit, to keep 

 it from interfering with the roots of the figs. (Banksian Medal 

 awarded.) 



From Mr. Jones, Gardener to Sir Moore Disney, F. H. S., 

 good bunches of Black Hamburgh and Jf'hite Frontignan Grapes. 



From Mr. Bruce, Gardener to Boyd Miller, Esq. of Merton, a 

 Syon Hybrid Cucumber, exhibiting a natural graft, for. red by the 

 adhesion of the leaf-stalk to the side of the fruit ; this kind is 

 stated to be invaluable as a ridge Cucumber in a cold wet sea- 

 son like the present, producing an abundance of fine clean fruit, 

 whereas the common hardy ridge sort, on the same bed, has 

 been so much affected with canker as to be entirely useless. 



From the Garden of the Society, a collection of plants, in- 

 cluding Catasetum laminatum, Huntleya ciolacea, the beautiful 

 Phaius albus, Crinum erubescens major, Clerodendrum speciosissi- 

 mum, Achimenes longiflora, A. rosea, and A. multiflora, likewise 

 Niphcea oblonga, Isomeris arborea, and several other plants j 

 also cut flowers of Ceanothus azureus, a pale variety of the 

 same, and C. pallidus, all capable of standing the winter, except 

 in severe seasons, with a collection of f'erbenas. There were, also, 

 four plants of the common Hydrangea, each of which had 

 been treated in a different manner, to find out, if possible, what 

 ingredient it was in the soil that changed the flowers from pink 



