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LXXXVII. Notices of Communications to the Horticultural 

 Society, between August 1st, 1820, and May 1st, 1821, of 

 which separate Accounts have not been published in its Trans- 

 actions. Extracted from the Minute Books and Papers of 

 the Society. 



August 1, 1820. Mr. Walter Hogg, Gardener to John 

 Edwards, Esq. at Rheola, in Glamorganshire, communi- 

 cated to the Meeting this day an account of his mode of treat- 

 ing some Pine Apple plants which had grown to unusual size. In 

 March 1820, he had several of different sorts, which had 

 been suckers taken from the parent plants in 1816, and 

 which, under the usual treatment, had become too large to 

 receive proper sustenance while remaining in pots. To pro- 

 vide a fit place for them, he cut a deep trench along the 

 back of the bark bed, into which he put a quantity of good 

 earth, and then turned the pines out of the pots into it, and 

 filled up round the balls with mould of the same quality, 

 which he covered lightly with tan. At the time a few only 

 of the plants were shewing fruit, but they all (with the ex- 

 ception of one plant of the New T Providence) fruited im- 

 mediately, and extremely well, yielding fruit from 3lb. to 

 5£lb. each in weight. The plant of the New Providence 

 continued growing luxuriantly till the following February, 

 when it shewed fruit, which was cut in June, and weighed 

 9lb. 4oz. It was sent to the Society for inspection, and 

 afterwards presented, by Mr. Edwards, to His Majesty. 



