mias, Gilias, Gaillardias, Clarkias, Godetias, Colliusias, Lupines, 

 Escholtzias, the musky Mimulus, numerous Pentstemons, and 

 many otter universal favourites in the Flower Garden. 



Nor was this the sole or oliief work done by the Society 

 at this period. Between 1823 and 1830 its progress in works 

 of permanent utility was continual and rapid. Series of experi- 

 ments were instituted as to the best modes of cultivation, and 

 collections made of many of the most important flowers and 

 vegetables. In the year 1823, no fewer than twelve hundred 

 varieties of Eoses existed in the Garden : and this assemblage 

 as well as the importations from China, may be assumed to 

 have led to that elimination of bad sorts, and general improve- 

 ment of the Eose, which has rendered the modern Eose-garden 

 a scene of perpetual enjoyment, instead of a summer display 

 which only lasted for a month or six weeks. An investiga- 

 tion of the value of the numerous foreign fruits and esculents 

 had been undertaken after the conclusion of peace, and the 

 confusion that existed among their names had been reduced to 

 considerable order, as is shown hy various papers printed in 

 the Transactions, and by the Catalogue of fruits grown at 

 Chiswick, the first edition of which appeared in 1826, and 

 an improved edition of which is now (1863) in course of 

 publication in the MontUy Proceedings of the Society. That 

 system of heating glass structures by hot water, instead of by 

 flues or expensive applications of steam, to which modern gar- 

 deners owe so much of their success, although it did not 

 originate in the Garden, was first systematically applied there 

 in the face of great opposition from those who objected to the 

 introduction of a method to which they were unaccustomed ; 



