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sured seventeen inches in circumference, and was peculiarly 

 well flavoured. The singularity of this Pine was its be- 

 ing the produce of a sucker which had been removed from 

 the parent root only six months previous to the time the 

 fruit was cut. The plant, on which the sucker grew, had 

 produced a fruit which was cut in October, 1817 ; the old 

 stem, with the sucker attached, was allowed to remain in 

 the Pine-pit till May, 1818 ; at that time the sucker was 

 broken off, potted, and plunged into a fresh pit ; it soon 

 after shewed fruit, which, in the course of four months, at- 

 tained to the weight and size above stated. Mr. Marsland 

 is in the practice of producing Pines in this way with equal 

 success and expedition. His houses are all heated by steam. 



At the same Meeting. Some heads of a Dwarf Indian 

 Corn, grown in the garden of the Society, were exhibited. 

 They were produced from seed sent to the Society from 

 Paris, by M. Vilmorin, under the name of Mais d poulet. 

 The plants do not exceed eighteen inches in height, are very 

 hardy, not being injured by the spring frosts ; the seeds vege- 

 tate perfectly well in the open ground, and do not require the 

 aid of artificial heat to raise them. They should be sown 

 in drills, about two feet apart, and the plants when thinned, 

 should stand at six inches in the row from each other; their 

 heads, which will be perfectly ripe before the end of Sep- 

 tember, are about three inches long, one only being usually 

 produced on each plant : when a second blossom appears, 

 it is generally abortive. The grains are of a bright-yellow 

 colour, round and small ; anil the flour they contain ap- 

 pears to be peculiarly white and fine. The varieties of the 

 common Maize (the Zea Mays of Linneus) are numerous 



