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two inches deep, and the ground should be well trodden about 

 them. Mr. West states, that he has obtained Onions, by 

 this method, early in the summer, which have measured fif- 

 teen inches in circumference. The plan here directed is 

 the same as is recommended by the President in a Paper* 

 communicated to the Society in April 1809. 



At the same Meeting. Some Spanish Onions were exhi- 

 bited by Mr. Samuel Rintoul, gardener to the Earl of 

 Liverpool, at Walmer Castle.. These Onions were raised 

 from the seed of a Spanish Onion, grown at Walmer Castle ; 

 the seed was sown in the open ground, in August, and 

 the Onions were transplanted from the seed bed in the 

 beginning of the April following, and then treated as re- 

 commended by Mr. Warre,+ in his description of the cul- 

 tivation of Onions in Portugal. Three of these specimens 

 weighed together five pounds ; the largest weighed one pound 

 nine ounces, and many others from the bed upwards of one 

 pound each. From these and other specimens received by 

 the Society in the season, it seems certain, that the climate 

 and soil of England are capable of producing a supply of 

 this useful root, in as great perfection as the more southern 

 parts of Europe. 



September 7th, 1819. Mr. James Mills, late gardener 

 to Isaac Elton, Esq. of Stapleton House, near Bristol, ex- 

 hibited to the Society a Plan of a Hot Wall, designed by him-" 

 self, the chief advantages of which, as suggested by Mr. 

 Mills, are, 1st, that the heat of the due can never be cou- 



* See Horticultural Transaction's, Vol. I. pa<;c 15?. 

 f Sec Horticultural Transactions, Vol. lit. page 6?. 



