CONTENTS. 



I. Journal of Meteorological Observations made in the Garden of 

 the Horticultural Society at Chiswick, during the year 1841. tty 

 Mr. Robert Thompson, Superintendent of the Orchard and 

 Kitchen Garden Department in the Society's Garden. p. 1 



II. On the Oxalis Deppei, and its Cultivation as a culinary plant. By 

 Mr. Robert Thompson, Superintendent of the Orchard and Kitchen 

 Garden Department in the Society's Garden. p. 29 



III. Experiments on the Inorganic Constituents of Plants. By 

 Edward Solly, Esq., F.R.S., F.L.S., Hon.Memb. Roy. Ayr. Soc. 

 Eng. Experimental Chemist to the Horticultural Society. p. 35 



IV. The Result of some Experiments in the Garden of the Society 

 on the action of Fertilizing Agents upon the Lawn. p- 93 



V. Notes made in the Garden of the Horticultural Society upon the 

 rate of growth by plants at different periods of the day. By the 

 Vice Secretary. P- 103 



VI. Notes of a Visit to Mexico, Guatemala, and Equatorial America, 

 during the Years 1836 to 1843 in search of Plants and Seeds for 

 the Horticultural Society of London. By Mr. Theodore Hart- 



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VII. Journal of Meteorological Observations made in the Garden of 

 the Horticultural Society at Chiswick, during the year 1842. By 

 Mr. Robert Thompson, Superintendent of the Orchard and 

 Kitchen Garden Department in the Society's Garden. P- 163 



VIII. On the Exhaustion of Soils. By Edward Solly, Esq., 

 F.R-S., F.L.S., Hon. Memb. Roy. Agr. Soc. Eng. Experimental 

 Chemist to the Horticultural Society. P' 189 



