CONTENTS. 



V 



XVI. A Method of growing Crops of Melons on open Bor- 

 ders. In a Letter to the Secretary. By Mr. William 

 Greenshields, F. H. S. Gardener to Richard Benyon de 

 Beauvoir, Esq. F. H. S. at Englefield House, in Berk- 

 shire, p. 172. 



XVII. Notice of Five Varieties of Pears, received from Jersey 

 in the year 1826. By Mr. John Lindley, F.L.S. $c. 

 Assistant Secretary for the Garden. p. 175 



XVIII. Upon the Culture of the Prunus Pseudo-Cerasus, or 

 Chinese Cherry. By Thomas Andrew Knight, Esq. 

 F. R. S. $c. President. p. 180 



XIX. On the Culture of the Pine Apple. In a Letter to 

 William Garfit Ashton, Esq. Secretary to the Cambridge- 

 shire Horticultural Society. By Mr. James Dall, Gar- 

 dener to the Earl of Hardwicke, F. H. S. at Whnpole. 

 Communicated by the Cambridgeshire Horticultural 

 Society. p. 184 



XX. On Forcing Asparagus. In a Letter to William Garfit 

 Ashton, Esq. Secretary to the Cambridgeshire Horticul- 

 tural Society. By Mr. James Dall, Gardener to the Earl 

 of Hardwicke, F. H. S. at Wimpole. Communicated by 

 the Cambridgeshire Horticultural Society. jj. 188 



XXI. Observations on Forcing Garden Rhubarb. By Mr. 

 William Stothard, Under Gardener in the Experimental 

 Fruit and Kitchen Garden Department of the Garden of 

 the Horticultural Society, at Chiswick. p. 190 



XXII. Account of some remarkable Holly Hedges and Trees 

 in Scotland. By Joseph Sabine, Esq. F. R. S. fyc. 

 Secretary. p. 194 



XXIII. An Account of a Plan for Heating Stoves by means 



