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the branches trained to the buttress was one-fourth larger 

 than that on the rest of the tree. 



November 16, 1819- Seeds of Vicia sylvatica, sent by 

 the Rev. George Swayne, of Dyrham, near Bath, were 

 distributed. Mr. Swayne has cultivated this plant, which 

 is found wild in his neighbourhood, as a creeper, training it 

 up against a wall, mixed with the Corchorus Japonicus : 

 when the early beauty of the Corchorus has gone off, the un- 

 sightly appearance of its branches during the remainder of 

 the year is concealed by the delicate leaves and the beau- 

 tiful striped flowers of the Vicia, which does not grow up 

 sufficiently high in the first part of the spring to interfere 

 with the splendid flowers of the Corchorus. The seeds of the 

 Vicia may be sown in the place where they are to remain, 

 any time before the beginning of March; the plants 

 will then soon spring up, but will not blossom in the first 

 summer. 



At the same Meeting. Mr. Swayne also sent some 

 Apples, the produce of a seedling tree, about twenty years 

 old, having somewhat the character of a Pearmain, from 

 the seed of an Apple of which description it was raised. 

 The tree is a great bearer, very healthy, and quite free 

 from canker. The circumstance which renders it worthy of 

 notice is its habit of growth; the centre branches are suffi- 

 ciently erect, but the srde ones are so pendant, as to place 

 it amongst the trees with weeping branches, and to entitle 

 it to the name of the Weeping Apple : its blossoms, also, 

 are remarkable in having a bright crimson tinge. These 



