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pahlias from Mr. Chandler’s Nursery were extremely good, and it was the only collection of 
those flowers that appeared; those in the Society’s Garden have been long since destroyed by 
frost. Among the remaining articles were remarked very line selections of Chrysanthemums, 
Apples, and Pears from the Society’s Garden. Many of the latter were found ripe much earlier 
than usual, owing to the dryness of the season, especially the Passe Colmar, Beure Die], and 
those excellent varieties,the Forellc nelis d’ Hiver, &c. 
GENEVA MEETING. 
At the Horticultural Society Meeting, held at Geneva, New York, America, Sept. 30th, 1833, 
there was a large collection of Fruits, Vegetables, Plants and Flowers exhibited, and the 
attendance of visitors was large. The officers for the ensuing year were elected, and after¬ 
wards the Society sat down to a good dinner. 
THE NORTH DEVON HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
A Quarterly Meeting of the North Devon Horticultural Society was held on Friday, Nov. 
loth, in the Rooms in this town, and as it was accompanied with an exhibition of plants and 
fruits ; it attracted the attention of a good many of the amateurs and other genteel inhabitants 
of the neighbourhood. The exhibition, as might be expected at this late season of the year, 
was comparatively small, but on the tables in the centre of the room were some choice and 
very fine plants, chiefly, as we understood, from the garden or greenhouse ol R. W. Grace, Esq. 
particularly a fuschia macrophila, seven feet high ; a cactus Iruncatus, five feet h'gh ; a strel- 
itzia regina, dichorisandia thyrsifolia, corrioca speciosa, &e. &c. There were also some splen¬ 
did specimens of dahlias, German asters, and other flowers, and a good display of very cboi-e 
fruits. 
The following experiments on the culture of the potatoe, made by J. B. Turner, Esq. of Il¬ 
fracombe, were submitted to the meeting by R. W. Dickenson, Esq.:— 
Different sorts of sets planted 
17th May, 1833. 
Large whole potatoes. 
Large whole ditto, blooded, by V 
scooping a piece out an inch > 
in depth and diameter. j 
Small whole potatoes. 
Sets with a single eye cut in the) 
usual way.. ...j 
A crown eye cut circular and 
conical, £ inch diameter at > 
the base or eye.J 
A side eye, cnt as last. 
Rind with two eyes, | inch thick. 
Sets with the eye cut in half..... 
Large potatoes, with the rind 5 
not peeled off, but all the f 
eyes scooped out about lialff" 
an inch deep.} 
Large potatoes peeled \ of an) 
inch thick all over.j 
Budded potatoes.. - . 
Number 
planted. 
Number that 
grew. 
Appearance 
of Top. 
Number fit 
for Table. 
No. of small. 
Total num¬ 
ber. 
Gross weight 
8 
all 
very fine. 
56 
as 
91 
181b 
8 
all 
very fine. 
55 
32 
87 
16 
8 
all 
small spiral. 
18 
21 
39 
4 
8 
all 
ditto. 
22 
5 
27 
4* * 
8 
all 
fair size. 
37 
10 
37 
H 
8 
7 
ditto. 
18 
8 
26 
3f 
8 
7 
small. 
12 
10 
22 
2? 
8 
all 
ditto. 
20 
6 
26 
2s 
8 
4 
fair size. 
19 
24 
43 
4 
8 
4 
small. 
9 
11 
20 
9 
6 
all 
ditto. 
* 
* None fit for table, and the produce was very small, and a mixture of white and red, ac¬ 
cording as the bud or stock grew: so that it would appear, no variety can be obtained from 
budding. The seed is the only source from whence varieties can be obtained. 
General Observations .—The sort on which the experiment was made, was the Devonshire 
red rough ; the sets, See . were planted on the 17th of May, 1833, in rows 20 inches asunder, and 
10 inches distance, dressed with white rotten dung, and earthed up twice ; the crop was dug on 
the 12th of November following, and the best looking samples were No. 2 and 5. 
From the foregoing results it may be concluded, that it is next to an impossibility to destroy 
with the knife the germ of the potatoe ; almost any part of it will produce, and if the set has 
but one eye, and especially the crown eye, it is immaterial how small that eye is cut. That 
large whole potatoes produce the greatest return ; the crown eyes next, in fact, in some places 
where potatoes are scarce, the crown eyes have been cut for setting, and the other part of the 
potatoe used. 
