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At the Meeting on the 7th of September, a Paper by Mr. 

 John Mearns, Gardener to William Hanbury, Esq., at 

 Shobden Court in Herefordshire, was read, describing his 

 mode of obtaining a strong autumnal crop of fruit of the Red 

 and White Antwerp Raspberries. In May he removes the 

 young fruit-bearing shoots from the canes, leaving in some 

 cases one or two eyes, in others cutting them clean off. Under 

 either plan, they soon shew an abundance of vigorous shoots, 

 frequently three or four from each eye, which produce plenty 

 of blossoms in the beginning of July, and on these a good 

 crop of fine Raspberries is borne in August, when all the 

 regular produce on the plants not thus treated is consumed. 



Mr. Elias Hildyard, Gardener to Sir Thomas Frank- 

 land, at Thirkleby, in Yorkshire, in a Communication to the 

 Society, read on the 21st of September, stated, that having 

 continually lost his crop of Onions in consequence of their 

 being attacked by the grub when half grown, he had tried 

 the effect of trenching his beds, and thus had destroyed or 

 removed his enemy. The soil of the garden is very strong ; 

 he trenched it in winter, digging in manure at the same time, 

 and left it exposed to the frost in a rough state till the time 

 of sowing. It was then raked without digging, and the Onion 

 seed was sown in drills at eight inches apart. The crops ob- 

 tained by this practice are not only uninjured, but of superior 

 size, and have never failed. He finds the plan answers equally 

 well for Garlick and Shallots ; the latter he always plants in 

 preference in November ; they then grow larger, and are 

 more productive. He sows his Onions in the middle of 



