560 Notices of Communications to the Society, of which 



September 19, 1820. Mr. Patrick Flanagan, gar- 

 dener to Sir Thomas Hare, Bart, sent to the Meeting this 

 day, two specimens of a Cucumber, one in its green, and the 

 other in its ripe state. The green one measured about seven- 

 teen inches in length, and near seven inches in circumference, 

 and weighed twenty-six ounces. It was crisp, tender, and 

 of a superior flavour. The skin is a dark green sprinkled with 

 minute white spots, having few spines, and those not promi- 

 nent. The ripe one, sent for seed, measured twenty-five inches 

 and a half in length, eleven inches and a half in circumference, 

 and weighed upwards of six pounds. Mr. Flanagan states 

 that he has frequently grown these cucumbers, in high per- 

 fection for the table, near two feet long : in 1811 he produc- 

 ed one in a stove which measured thirty-one inches in 

 length, was twelve inches in circumference, and weighed 

 eleven pounds ; this was exhibited at the time in Messrs. 

 Warner and Seaman's seed-shop, Cornhill. This is a 

 remarkble variety of the Cucumber, combining with such 

 extraordinary vigour of growth, so much excellence of flavour 

 as to make it particularly deserving of notice. Some seeds 

 were communicated to the Society, and have been distributed 

 under the name of Flanagans Cucumber. The sort was ob- 

 tained by Mr. Flanagan in 1804, from a friend in Buck- 

 inghamshire. It keeps true to itself, without variation ; but it 

 is difficult to make it yield seed. It requires to be grown in 

 high temperature. 



Octobers, 1820. Mr. William Buck, gardener to the 

 Hon. Fulk Greville Howard, exhibited seven bearing 

 Plants of Vines in Pots, from the garden at Elford Hall, near 

 Lichfield. The plants were one and two years old from 



