CONTENTS. 



[. Observations on the Growth of Early and Late Grapes 

 under Glass, In a Letter to the Secretary, By Mr. 

 James Acon, Corresponding Member of the Horticultural 

 Society of London, Gardener to the Earl of Surrey, 

 F. H. S. at Worksop Manor. p. 1 



II. On the Varieties of Cardoon, and the Methods of Culti- 

 vating them. By Mr. Andrew Mathews, A.L.S. p. 9 



III. Accounts and Descriptions of the several Plants be- 

 longing to the Genus Hoya, which are cultivated in the 

 Garden of the Horticidtural Society at Chiswick. By 

 Mr. James Traill, Under Gardener in the Ornamental 

 Experimental Department. p. 16 



IV. On Acclimatizing Plants at Biel, in East Lothian. In 

 a Letter to the Secretary. By Mr. John Street, Gar- 

 dener to the Honourable Mrs. Hamilton Nesbit. p. 31 



V. Upon the Culture of Celery. By Thomas Andrew 

 Knight, Esq. F.R.S. $c. President. p. 43 



VI. Report upon the New or Rare Plants which flowered 

 in the Garden of the Horticultural Society at Chiswick, 

 between March, 1825, and March, 1 826. Part 1. Tender 

 Plants. By Mr. John Lindley, F. L. S. %c. Garden 

 Assistant Secretary. p. 46 



VII. Account of a Protecting Frame for Fruit Trees on 

 Walls. In a Letter to the Secretary. By Mr. John 

 Djck, Gardener to The Right Honourable William 

 Trotter, Lord Provost of Edinburgh, at Ballindean in 

 Perthshire. p- 76 



VIII. On the Escident Egg Plants. By. Mr. Andrew 

 Mathews, A.L.S. p. 82 



IX. Notices of Communications to the Horticidtural Society, 

 between January 1, 1824, and January 1, 1825, of which 

 separate Accounts have not been published in the Trans- 

 actions. Extracted from the Minute Boohs and Papers of 

 the Society. p. 87 



X. Report on the Instruments employed in, and on the Plan 

 of a Journal of Meteorological Observations kept in the 

 Garden of the Horticultural Society at Chiswick. p. 97 



