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ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



' Journal.' The closing practical remarks, however, which were 

 not in the copy sent to the printer, should not be omitted. 



" The question now is, What is best to be done under the cir- 

 cumstances ? The trees might partially recover, but that is not to 

 be depended on. It will therefore be advisable to obtain the 

 best-trained trees that can be procured for replanting the house. 

 A week or two will be sufficient to show whether there is any 

 hope of the regretted old specimen tree regaining sufficient vigour 

 to maintain its vegetation. The whole of the soil in the borders 

 will require to be thoroughly cleaned out and replaced with fresh 

 soil. If the old specimen is saved, its roots should be partitioned 

 off from the part of the border cleared for the fresh soil and trees. 

 Till the new trees come into bearing, the house might be occupied 

 with Peach- and Nectarine-trees, in pots, from which a tolerable 

 supply may be obtained even in the current year. 



" In making the new border, the soil should be laid on a bottom 

 18 inches or 2 feet (certainly not less than 1 foot) above the general 

 level of the garden. The soil should be fresh and loamy, but not 

 too stiff, and it should not be made very rich with manure in the 

 first instance. The roots appear to have been well kept up at 

 Chatsworth formerly ; but these kinds of trees are frequently 

 allowed to send their roots into a deep border of rich soil, half 

 manure, thus rendering them very differently situated from native 

 trees on the slopes of Asia Minor." 



~No information has been received lately as to the trees ; but as, 

 according to a report received from the Duke of Devonshire several 

 weeks since, they had fruited better than could have been expected, 

 it is greatly to be hoped that at least the specimen tree will be 

 spared, and that some treatment like that suggested by Dr. Hogg 

 will be successful. 



Mr. "Wilson Saunders produced a radish which had been tied in 

 a natural knot by some impediment to its growth. At a subse- 

 quent Meeting, Mr. W. Gr. Smith brought some precisely similar 

 specimens which he had produced artificially. 



A photograph of a large Pear-tree, at Home Lacy, the seat of 

 Sir E. I\ Stanhope, Bart., was produced by Mr. Bateman. It covers 

 nearly an acre of ground, growing after the fashion of a Banyan. 

 Prom fourteen to sixteen hogsheads (of 100 gallons each) have 

 been made from it in a single season. 



Mr. Bateman, amongst other remarks on the Orchids at the 

 Meeting, called especial attention to the rare JEpidenclrum erubc- 

 scens, of which a lot was bought at one of Mr. Stevens's sales for 



