THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN, September 28, 1858. 
feet wide ; a little rotten dung was placed in tlie bottom 
and nicely dug, and tlie plants were taken out of the 
boxes and planted out in rows, about four inches apart 
in the row, and the rows about one foot apart. These 
plants were protected chiefly with a piece of thin calico, 
stretched along the bed ; and, at first, left on even in 
very bright days. In such circumstances, the plants 
made more rootway than headway, and, though strong 
and compact, and rising with good balls, few of the 
plants were above seven inches high, when planted out 
about the 20th of May. The stubby character has 
been maintained by them all along. The plants were 
a dense mass of bloom in the last days of July. They 
are not quite so fine now, on this the 13th of September, 
as they have been three times picked over, and pretty 
well a dozen barrow-loads of faded flowers removed; 
but there is a fair amoun t of bloom, and plenty of buds, 
and the plants have always maintained their stubby, 
sturdy babbit. 
I was more anxious to have a particularly good row 
of this Zelinda, than with respect to the plants I have 
adverted to, and gave them much more care and 
attention. When the first were removed to the Celery 
trench, these latter were taken from the boxes, and 
lanted out in a bed, where there was a little bottom 
eat, giving the plants nice, rich, light soil, with a little 
rotten dung beneath, that the plants might lift with 
good balls. Frames with glass were placed over 
them, the plants were duly attended to with water, 
air, &c., and nothing could look better then they did, 
being seemingly double the size of those in the Celery- 
pit at planting time. They were nicely planted, did not 
seem to feel the removal a bit, grew vigorously, and 
were fully from eight to twelve inches above their com¬ 
peers ; but, though showing freely enough for bloom 
now, they have hitherto cost far more labour in attend¬ 
ing to them, and produced but few and meagre early 
flowers; in fact, taking plant for plant, have hitherto 
been a failure as respects masses of bloom, when com¬ 
pared with the plants more roughly treated. Perhaps, 
from blooming later, such plants may beat, in the end of 
September and October, those that flowered so freely 
and early ; but that is a poor compensation for giving 
me more green than purple in the earlier months. I 
thought I could have squeezed all this into a few lines ; 
but the length of space I have travelled over will not 
be harshly judged by those who have found out that 
tlie most striking results are generally the consequence 
of attending to, and noting, the minutiae that led to 
success. In future, I intend to give such, plants less 
nursing. Our readers can choose for themselves. 
R. Fisii. 
(To be continued.) 
MEETING OF THE BRITISH POMOLOGICAL 
SOCIETY. 
An ordinary Meeting of the Society was held at St. 
James’s Hall, September 9th, Mr. T. Rivers in the 
chair. 
The following were elected ordinary members :—Miss 
Burdett Coutts, 22, Regent’s Park Terrace, London, 
N.W.; Henry Webb, Esq., Redstone Manor, Red Hill, 
Reigate; Henry Woodyear, Esq., Vassal Road, near 
Brixton, Surrey; George C. Ainslie, Esq., Peaston 
Ford, Edinburgh; Alfred R. Bristow, Esq., Green 
wich; Robert Laing, Esq., Twickenham; Mr. Chare- 
wood, Tavistock Row, Covent Garden; Mr. Cumming, 
i Tavistock Row, Covent Garden ; Mr. William James 
Epps, Bower Nursery, Maidstone; Mr. John Cole, 
Birchfield, Birmingham ; Mr. Archibald W. Godwin, 
Ashbourne, Derbyshire ; Mr. Joseph Jessop, Grove 
Park Farm, Chiswick; Mr. James Melville, Dalmeney 
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Park, near Edinburgh; Mr. Henry Ramsay, Exotic 
Nursery, King’s Road, Chelsea. 
The Committee,—appointed last Meeting to consider 
by what means the Society could most exactly ascertain 
the kinds of fruits which succeed best under circum¬ 
stances, and in localities, as many, as varied, and as 
widely separated as may be practicable,—brought up 
their report, which was adopted, and on it were founded 
the resolutions that appeared in our advertising columns. 
Of fruit exhibited at this Meeting, the following were 
the most remarkable :— 
Grapes. — This being the Meeting at which certain 
prizes were offered for improved varieties of Grapes, and 
other subjects, the only competition was for the premium 
of Two Pounds, offered for the best Seedling hardy Grape, 
of any description, not having a Muscat flavour. Two 
varieties were exhibited. 
Buckland Sweetwater, by Mr. Ivery, of Dorking. 
This has, on two previous seasons, been laid before the 
Society, and on this occasion their previous good report 
of it was fully confirmed. One very handsome bunch was 
exhibited, from which it was intended a drawing should 
be made, and which evinced in the short, compact, well¬ 
shouldered bunch, the close relationship of this variety 
to the Hamburgh section. Several other bunches were 
exhibited for testing purposes. They were all reported 
to have been produced in a common greenhouse,— 
Camellias and other plants being grown beneath them. 
The characteristics of the variety may be enumerated as 
follows : — Bunch medium-sized, compact, almost tri¬ 
angular in shape, and giving evidence of the variety being 
a very free setter; berries pale green, slightly amber colour 
when fully ripe, full size, regular, and round ; skin of 
medium thickness, very transparent; flesh sweet, melting, 
partaking more of the Stveetwater than Muscadine 
section ; seeds very few, rarely more than one in a berry, 
in hardiness and flavour being equal to any of the old 
varieties of the sections mentioned above, in cultivation, 
and being superior in form of bunch, as w r ell as an ex¬ 
cellent setter. Tt was considered w orthy of taking a place 
amongst useful Grapes, and of the premium offered for 
this class,—which was therefore awarded. 
Mr. Ivery also exhibited some bunches of Royal Mus¬ 
cadine, grown in the same house. They had, however, 
been subjected to much less careful cultivation in regard 
to thinning, and were not, therefore, allowed by the Meet¬ 
ing to influence them in their estimate of the value of 
JBucMand Sweetwater. 
In this class, also, was again exhibited by Mr. TVigh- 
ton, of Cossey Hall, Norfolk, his Seedling Blacic Grape, 
which had been brought before the Meeting of August 
5tli. It was again regarded as a variety likely to be of 
high excellence, if proved tobeagoodkeejier; but on this 
point more evidence, at a later period, was desired. Mr. 
Wighton reported that the Vine had been early forced 
this year, in the same house with Muscats, and other 
varieteis receiving'a high temperature ; that the fruit of 
the other varieties had been all cut, or remained shrivelled 
on the trees, while that of the Seedling was quite plump. 
Mr. Melville, ofDalmeney Park Gardens, again sent 
specimens of his Seedling- Muscat Grape, which had 
been considered promising at the previous Meeting. 
They had, however, been packed up from the 4th to the 
8th, and were, consequently, very far gone. It was, 
however, in a state which induced the Meeting more 
decidedly to anticipate that it would prove a useful 
variety; the berries on the bunch sent being quite equal 
in flavour to those of Cannon Hall, grown on the ad¬ 
joining rafter, and sent for comparison. It was said to 
ripen three weeks earlier than the Cannon Hall, in the 
same temperature. The Meeting considered it desirable 
that the Society should see the fruit again next year, by 
which time the plant would have attained to a higher 
state of development. 
