The monthly meeting was held on the evening of Tuesday the 6th ult. - Mr M. Dunn presiding. Mr A. D. Makenzie read a paper on "Economy of fuel in heating greenhouses with hot water," in which he reviewed the claims and capabilities of the various boilers which had been patented and recommended by practical men, and gave as his opinion, founded upon careful and extended observation, that no boiler had as yet been invented at once so powerful and so economical as that well known as the horizontal flued saddle. A communication was read from Mr Arch. Fowler, Castle Kennedy, on the "Setting of Grapes," giving his experience of some of the shy-setting varieties, and recommending the shaking or tapping of the stems while the flowers were expanded, with the view of scattering the pollen, so that each of the stigmas might receive a sufficient quantity for fertilisation. Mr George M'Clure, The Gardens, Trinity Grove, next read a paper on the " Cyclamen," in the culture of which he had been remarkably successful. For soil, he recommended a mixture of good loam and leaf-mould, enriched with well-decomposed manure, with the addition of a sufficient quantity of sharp sand to render it porous.

During the growing season the plants should have a light airy situation, and care should always be taken to give them an abundant supply of water. "When the leaves were decayed and the bulbs in a state of rest, less water was necessary, but they should never be allowed to become completely dry. Mr Alexander Macmillan, Broadmeadows, sent a communication on "Zonale Pelargoniums," in which he gave some details of his experience of them as winter-blooming plants. His practice was to plant them out in a border of rich soil in the greenhouse, where they flowered with the utmost profusion. Each of the papers was freely criticised, and on the motion of the chairman, votes of thanks were cordially awarded to the authors.

On the recommendation of the Council, the meeting agreed to offer prizes of £3, £2, and £1 to under-gardeners members of the Association, for the three best herbariums of British plants collected between May 1879 and February 1880.

Among the subjects tabled for exhibition we noted a collection of seedling Alpine Auriculas, of very superior quality, from Mr M'Clure, one of which, named "Colonel Wood," it was reported, had been awarded a first-class certificate by the new-flowers committee. Mr James Hunter, Lambton Castle, sent a basket of Valeriana Phu-aurea, a hardy herbaceous plant used at Lambton for spring bedding. It seems strange that this fine old golden-leaved plant has been so long overlooked for this purpose. Mr Robertson Munro had a small but very select lot of Alpine plants. Messrs Dicksons & Co. sent a miscellaneous collection, including well-flowered specimens of Forsythia Fortuneii, a hardy Japanese shrub covered with its golden blossoms; Rhododendron Broughtmanii aurea, a yellow-flowered cross between a Rhododendron and Azalea sinensis; Valeriana Phu-aurea; a number of fine-flowered seedlings of Primula denticulata, with various shades of colour. These had been grown in the open air, and when seen in the borders must have been very effective. Mr Thomas J. Ware, Tottenham, London, sent a number of blooms of early forcing Pinks, which were admired for their brilliant colours.

Messrs Ireland & Thomson had a number of very interesting and showy Amaryllis blooms; Messrs Downie & Laird, a stand of a superior strain of Mimulus; and Mr M'Leod, Royal Blind Asylum, blooms of Petunias.

We would again urge upon the Council the importance of making some provision for inspecting the exhibits sent from month to month to the meeting. On this occasion it was next to impossible for one-half of the members present to get even a glance at a part of them, huddled together as they were on a table not half large enough to show them to advantage, and many of them without either labels or exhibitors' names attached. Could a separate room not be got for this purpose, so that members and visitors might leisurely examine them? Certain we are that they are second to none of the matters of interest brought before the Association.