The monthly meeting was held in the hall, 5 St Andrew Square, Edinburgh, on Tuesday evening the 3d ult. - Mr Dunn, president, in the chair. Mr L. Dow read a paper on the "Kitchen-garden." After a few preliminary remarks illustrative of the great importance of young gardeners making this branch of their profession the subject of special study, he gave in detail the modes he had practised for many years for the successful cultivation of Cauliflowers, Peas, Carrots, and Swedish Turnips, dealing with the latter chiefly for winter forcing - the roots being treated in a similar manner to Seakale, the blanched leaves alone being used, and as much appreciated as those of that vegetable.

Mr Robertson Munro followed with a paper on "Hardy Spring Flowers." These plants, he remarked, were unrivalled for beauty. He was happy to notice that after a long period of comparative neglect they were again coming to the front; more attention was being paid to their cultivation; and that in some gardens the flower-beds, which had hitherto stood empty for about six months of the year, were rendered interesting, and even gay, from January to May, and this at a trifling amount of trouble and expense. Among the plants suitable for the purpose he recommended the following, which generally came into flower in the order named, and which could be transferred if necessary, at the bedding-out season, to the reserve borders, and again arranged in the beds in the beginning of winter: Helleborus nigra and nigra major, Snowdrops, Cyclamen coum, Winter Aconite, Scillas siberica and bifolia, Sisyrinchium grandiflorum and grandiflorum album Hepaticas angulosa and triloba, with its varieties; Anemones apennina, nemorosa, and fulgens; Myosotus dissitifiora; Crocus, various sorts; Daisies of sorts, the two showiest being the large flat-petalled white and the dark-crimson Rob Roy; Primulas of various sorts; Aubrietias purpurea and p. grandiflora; Saxifragas oppositifolia and Bur-seriana; Puschkinia scilloides, Tulips, Narcissus, Alpine and common Wallflowers, etc.

Of the articles placed on the table for exhibition, the most interesting were specimens of a new seedling kitchen Apple, named Earl of Moray, from Mr Webster of Gordon Castle, which was stated to be an abundant bearer, and was found to keep well. Messrs Dicksons and Co. had two stands of Chrysanthemum blooms, including 63 varieties: the finest of these were rotundi-florum, pearl white, incurved petals Elaine, large pure white La Belle Blonde, blush, incurved; Mrs George Parnell, white, incurved; Mrs George Rundell, white, incurved; Cardinal Wiseman, bright reddish crimson, incurved Mrs Stewart, ruby; Prince of Wales, violet purple; Duke of Edinburgh, rosy lilac; Emblem, rosy purple, incurved Gloria Mundi, golden yellow; George Glenny, light amber, incurved; Abbe Passaglia, amber, incurved. A specimen of Sibthorpia europea variegata, growing in a shallow pan, and forming a dense cushion about twelve inches in diameter, from Messrs Downie and Laird, was very much admired; and in response to a call by the chairman, Mr Kerr, one of the foremen of the establishment, briefly described the treatment it had received. He believed that much of the want of success in its management was to be attributed to undue coddling.

The soil consisted of about equal parts of leaf-mould and crocks broken very small, with a top-dressing of the smallest sea-gravel, through which the tender stem-roots rambled freely and sought into the soil. The plant had never been watered overhead, but was supplied with the necessary moisture by immersing the pan up to the brim for a few hours about once a-month in tepid water. The pan was placed in an ornamental vase, and had stood all the past season on a grated shelf in a shady part of the greenhouse covered with a bell-glass two or three inches larger in diameter than the vase, so that air was admitted freely from below.

It was intimated that at next meeting Mr John Sadler would read a paper on the "Physiology of Plant Life".