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bush, covered with a profusion of its sweet yellow blossoms, 

 of which it has yielded a succession throughout the summer. 



September 15th, 1818. Sir Thomas Frankland sent 

 some parchment and wood labels, which had been attached to 

 plants, and exposed to the weather since the spring. The 

 names of the plants had been originally written on them, 

 on some with Indian ink, and on others with common writ- 

 ing ink ; the latter had become quite illegible, whilst the 

 former were as perfectly clear, as when first written. 



At the same Meeting. Some Shropshire Damsons, pro- 

 duced by plants growing on their own roots, were exhi- 

 bited. The trees are good bearers, and the fruit is very 

 superior in size, and much preferable in all points to the 

 common Damson. They are much cultivated in the county 

 from whence their appellation is derived ; and as they 

 throw up suckers plentifully, are easily increased. 



October 6th, 1818. Tivopots of Vines bearing fruit, were 

 received from Peter Marsland, Esq. of Woodbank, near 

 Stockport. They were only one year old. Mr. Marsland 

 states, that in his Vinery (which is heated by steam), Vines 

 bear fruit in this way in great perfection. The pots are 

 placed on stages, and when the fruit is cut, they are removed 

 from the house, and others brought in, by which means a 

 succession of fruit is kept up during eleven months of the 

 year. Plants from one to four years old are used, and at 

 the latter age they bear as large bunches, and as abundantly, 

 as when trained to rafters. When a Vine planted in a house 

 is made to fruit at an unusual time, it is seldom found to 



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