separate Accounts have not been published. 



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a large size. One of the plants, the laterals only of which had 

 been stopped, measured ten feet in length, and an inch and 

 three quarters in circumference, within two joints of the top. 

 The leaves, at their full growth, were between eleven and 

 twelve inches wide, nearly of the same length, and very 

 fleshy. The liquid is prepared by infusing the dung twenty- 

 four hours or more, in the water, in casks, and it is drawn 

 off for use in as clear a state as possible. In a letter to the 

 Secretary, dated the 14th of July following, Mr. Mearxs 

 reported that the Cucumber plants had continued to bear 

 till May, when he cut them back to the lowermost shoot, 

 about six inches from the root; they started again with 

 vigour, and were then in full bearing, no water having been 

 given to their leaves, but a continual supply of the liquid 

 pigeon dung manure to their roots. 



April 18th, 1820. Mr. Richard Williams sent 

 Flowers of the Waterloo Hyacinth. This has peculiar pro- 

 perties, which distinguish it from other varieties of Hyacinths, 

 and make it deserving of separate notice. It has a semi- 

 double flower, of a bright rose colour, growing in compact 

 trusses, which are frequently fasciated, thereby becoming 

 very thick and full ; and as each root throws up many stems 

 of flowers, besides the principal one, a great display of 

 blossom appears on each bulb at once, forming a very hand- 

 some mass of flowers together. Those now exhibited were 

 from theopen ground inMr. Williams's garden, atTurnham 

 Green, where they have been cultivated two years, and may 

 therefore be considered as tolerably hardy. They increase 

 rapidly by offsets. This Hyacinth, it is supposed, before it 



