nOKTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



From Mr. Scoit, Gardener to Sir George Staunton, Bart., 

 F.H.S., fruit of the Purple Guata or Psidium Cattleyanum, from 

 a plant which had produced fruit in abundance since June • also 

 fruit of the Pasxi/Iora quadrangularis, weighing 3 lb., together 

 with fruit of the Akee tree, or Blighia sapida, and of the Laurel 

 leaved Granadilla or ff'aier Leviun, the Pomme de Liane of the 

 French ; this is a native of the West Indies, its fruit is acid to the 

 taste and agreeable in hot countries. (Certificate awarded for 

 the Blighia sapida.) 



From John Beadnell, Esq., F.H.S., a beautiful new Seedling 

 Pear, resembling that called the Trout or Forelle, with white 

 spots upon a brown ground. It was stated to be perfectly hardy 

 and proved of first rate quality. (Baxksiax !Medal awarded.) 



From Mr. Osborn, of Fulham, a cut specimen from North 

 America of Shepherdia argentea, with clusters of pretty dark red 

 berries ; the tree from which this specimen was taken was stated 

 to be 25 feet high, and about the same in breadth, quite covered 

 with fruit ; it never bears fruit in this country, because all the 

 plants here are male. When the females shall have been pro- 

 cured from North America, they will prove valuable hardy 

 shrubs. 



From the Garden of the Society, were plants of Fuchsia Chand- 

 lerii and racemijiora, a species ot Cestrum with bright orange flow- 

 ers, that had been imported from Guatemala by Mr. Skinner, 

 Miltonia Candida, Oncidium satiguineum, Fabiana imbricata, Ma- 

 hernia incisa, Phyllocladus asplenif alius, Berberis actinacantha, 

 and Fuchsia globosa. The last five had been placed in Brown's 

 patent pots, with double sides, about the beginning of June, 

 and had been fully exposed to the sun, along with other 

 plants in the common pots. They were perfectly green and 

 healthy and had never lost a leaf. The principal advantage in 

 double pots is that plants placed in them in very hot weather, 

 and fully exposed to the sun, only require watering, on an average, 

 once, where those in the common pots require it three times ; 

 there must not, however, be any water admitted into the cavity in 

 the sides of the pots, as from their porous nature, the water 

 passes through and keeps the soil too damp. They seem to an- 

 swer for all kinds of plants very well, but require more drainage 

 than the common pots, in order to guard against excess of mois- 

 ture. From the same collection were likewise the following 

 Pears, viz., Flemish Beauty, Louise Bonne (of Jersey), Belle et 

 Bonne, Styrian, Seckel, Urbaniste and various others, with speci- 

 mens of the U'ormsley Pippin Jpple, King of the Pippins and 

 several other apples among which was the ^^ere de Menage, a 

 lar^e firm kitchen apple, of a ?incnjlar milk white colour. 



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