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VI. Notices of Communications to the Horticultural Society, 

 between November 1st, 1818, and May 1st, 1819, of which 

 separate Accounts have not been published in its Transac- 

 tions. Extracted from the Minute Books and Papers of the 

 Society. 



November 3rd, 1818. Twenty-six boxes, containing up- 

 wards of three hundred specimens of wax models of the 

 most approved fruits grown in Germany, were this day pre- 

 sented by His Royal Highness the Grand Duke of Saxe 

 Weimar, to the Society. This very valuable and curious 

 collection will be arranged in cabinets, in the Meeting 

 Room of the Society. It consists of 104 Apples, 104 Pears, 

 39 Cherries,' 35 Plums, 15 Peaches, 4 Apricots, 1 Nut, 

 and 1 Medlar. 



At the same Meeting. A communication from Mr. John 

 Maher was read, stating the advantages he had derived, 

 in the late dry and hot summer, in the gardens of Arundel 

 Castle, in Sussex, from covering the ground with tiles, to 

 protect young vegetables from the effects of the excessive 

 heat. He sowed his seeds in drills, and covered the intervals 

 between the drills with tiles, letting the edge of the tiles ap- 

 proach within an inch of the drills, and pressing them close 

 into the earth. The tiles effectually preserved the roots 

 from the scorching rays of the sun, and by preventing the 

 evaporation of the moisture under them, afforded support as 

 well as protection. 



