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bear fruit well in the following season ; which is a serious in- 

 convenience when the Vine plants are large ; but when they 

 are kept in pots, they can be replaced at little expense, and 

 without trouble : therefore in the method practised by Mr. 

 Marsland, the same objection to the forcing of Grapes 

 throughout the year does not apply. 



At the same Meeting. George Isaac Call, Esq. sent from 

 his garden, near Taplow, a very large Gourd ; it measured 

 four feet ten inches in circumference, and weighed one hun- 

 dred and three pounds. Two other specimens of the same 

 kind were exhibited at subsequent Meetings; one by 

 George Caswall, Esq. from Sacombe Park, in Hertford- 

 shire, weighed one hundred and four pounds ; the other had 

 been imported from America, and was presented to the 

 Society, by John Moxon, Esq. It weighed one hundred 

 and forty pounds. This Gourd is the Potiron Jaune, of the 

 French gardeners. It is used in France in soups, as well as 

 mashed as a vegetable, in the manner of Potatoes, and also 

 for pies. It keeps well during most of the winter, and 

 is very thick in flesh. When mashed, it has a flavour 

 very pleasant, and peculiar to itself; it is an excellent sub- 

 stitute, as a variety, for Carrots or Turnips. Its cultivation 

 ought to be encouraged as a useful article of food for 

 cottagers. It is nearly globular, very slightly ribbed, of 

 a pale buff, or salmon colour, and thickly reticulated over its 

 whole surface, with narrow vermicular processes. It seems 

 sufficiently hardy to admit a treatment exactly like a com- 

 mon Gourd, growing best in a fresh loamy soil, well enrich- 

 ed with manure. The Potiron jaune, when of the size of a 

 turkey's egg, is also a very pleasant vegetable ; it should be 



