354 THE FLORIST. 



Penduilflora, dark rosy purple. 



President McCarel, purplish crimson ; extra fine. 

 *Queen Victoria, white, with rose centre. 

 *Roi Leopold, rose and white, striped. 

 *Rosine, lilac, Avith white centre. 



Spenceri, dwarf compact rosy lilac. 

 *Viscomte Albert de Beaumont, rose, with crimson eye ; extra fine. 



Of the above, Lychniflora and Roi Leopold were in Messrs. 

 Downie and Laird's list. Those marked with an asterisk formed 

 Messrs. E. Gr. Henderson and Son's list, and are chiefly new 

 varieties. 



POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



The first extraordinary meeting of this Society was held on the 6th 

 ult., at the rooms of the Society, Bedford Street, Covent Garden, for the 

 purpose of exhibiting collections of fruits. The rules of the Society, 

 which we pubhshed in the Florist a short time back, will inform our 

 readers that the objects the Society seeks to estabhsh by these meetings 

 are to show what effects the various soils and climates of Great Britain 

 have on the same kinds of fruits, for the purpose of comparing their 

 various merits under each condition, and consequently their adaptability, 

 or the reverse, to each ; to settle and determine the nomenclature of 

 fruits, by a close scrutiny of specimens from diverse situations at the 

 same time, so as to see them under all the appearances which difference 

 of soil and climate is kno\^Tl to produce in fruits ; and to examine and 

 report on new and seedling varieties. In reference to all these objects 

 the Society has abundant cause for congratulation, no fewer than 1200 

 specimens, including Pears, Apples, Grapes, Peaches, and Quinces, were 

 displayed from all parts of the kingdom and the Channel Islands. The 

 first attempt at exhibiting the pomological riches of Great Britain was 

 likewise indicative of the extreme want of such an institution; the 

 numbers of wrong names, even with some of the largest growers, show 

 the confusion in which our most important classes of fruits now are 

 in respect to their nomenclature ; and the earnestness with which 

 information on this head was asked of the Society, points out that no 

 previously- existing society has met the requirements now sought to be 

 obtained from this ; nor will they, or the public at large be disappointed. 

 At this, the first meeting of a society W'hich has only had existence a few 

 months, and with a very short notice of this particular meeting, the 

 cultivators responded to the call of the Society beyond its expectations, 

 and exhibited an anxiety to know more of the fruits which belong more 

 especially to the middle and lower classes ; and we shall not be wrong 

 in anticipating a wide sphere of usefulness, involving important interests 

 in the future operations of the Society. 



We scarcely dare venture to give more than a mere outline of what 

 was exhibited on the occasion ; and as the official judgment of the 

 censors will be published in the first number of the Society's Transac- 

 tions, and a full report will then be given of tht respective qualities of 



