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useful, when considered as a means of obtaining a luxury at 

 so early a season. 



January 20th, 1818. Mr. Thomas Moffat, Gardener 

 to the Viscount Sidney, at Frognal in Kent, exhibited some 

 early Potatoes, grown in a way different from that first de- 

 scribed. It is as follows : a compost consisting of equal 

 quantities of loam, sand, and coal ashes, with an addition of 

 lime in powder, equal to about one fifth of the whole, was 

 formed into a bed, four feet wide and four inches deep, on the 

 floor of a dark fruit room. Upon this bed, early in Septem- 

 ber, large Potatoes of the preceding year s growth, were laid, 

 three inches apart every way, with their best eyes down- 

 wards : these produced young Potatoes, which became fit for 

 use about Christmas. 



March 17th, 1818. Mr. Charles Benham, of Isle- 

 worth, brought several varieties of ripe Oranges of his own 

 growth, one of which, on account of its novelty, as well as 

 beauty and excellence, attracted particular notice. It was 

 a Blood Red Orange, of an elongated, almost cylindrical 

 shape ; the juice and flesh were of a deep purple colour, 

 sweet and rich, and the skin possessed a superior agreeable 

 flavour. 



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