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CONTENTS. 



Trotter, Lord Provost of Edinburgh, at Ballindean in 

 Perthshire. p. 76 



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

 Mathews, A.L.S. p. 82 



IX. Notices of Communications to the Horticultural 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 Books 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 



XI. Journal of Meteorological Observations, made in the 

 Garden of the Horticultural Society at Chiswick, during 

 the year 1826. By Mr. William Beattie Booth, A.L. S. 



p. 102 



XII. On Orache, its Varieties and Ctdtivation. By Mr. 

 William Townsend, Under Gardener in the Kitchen 

 Garden Department of the Garden of the Horticultural 

 Society at Chiswick. p. 130 



XIII. On Planting the Moist alluvial Banks of Rivers with 

 Fruit-trees. In a Letter to the Secretary. By Mr. John 

 Robertson, F. H. S. p. 135 



XIV. On Dahlias. By Mr. William Smith. Under Gar- 

 dener in the Arboretum Department of the Garden of the 

 Horticultural Society at Chiswick. p. 141 



XV. On the Cidtivation of Camellias in an open Border. 

 In a Letter to the Secretary. By Mr. Joseph Harrison. 



