IV PROCEEDINGS. 



swelled and ripened, though not very large, which were 

 cut from vines raised from eyes that were only struck 

 on the 10th of February last. It was stated by Mr. El- 

 phinstone that the eyes when potted were intended for 

 fruiting in 1852. He mentioned tliat on the 10th of 

 February, 1851, tlie eyes were i)re})ared and potted in 

 3-inch pots — one eye in a pot — and placed on the flue of a 

 vinery, which he had commenced to force. In the course 

 of a month the buds began to pusii through tlie soil, and 

 required to be well supplied with water almost every day, 

 in consequence of the strong heat arising from the flue, 

 until they had reached the height of nbout a foot. At this 

 stage the vines overliead shading them too much, they were 

 removed to a pit furnished with bottom heat ; they were 

 shifted for tlie first time in the beginning of April, when 

 they were plunged in a bed of leaves. When the vines had 

 reached the length of 4 feet the whole of the leaders were 

 pinched off with a view to induce fruitfulness as near the 

 pot as possible. They were shifted into their fruiting pots 

 in the second week in May. About this time eight of the 

 strongest were selected from the young stock, when the 

 whole of the buds were cut out to witiiin six or eight of tlie 

 bottom of the cane, the leaves being allowed to remain until 

 the buds showed signs of again breaking out into leaf, when 

 the whole of the eight canes were cut oft' within an inch of 

 the uppermost bud. The result was, that on each cane they 

 showed fruit, some account of which has just been given. 

 One of the vines taken from the pot accompatued the fruit. 

 It was everything that could possibly be desired ; being 

 well ripened, the buds full and large, and the foliage ample 

 and of great substance. 



Certificate of Merit : — 



To Mr. Frost, Gardener to E. L. Betts, Esq., Preston Hall, 

 Aylesford, for a Seedling Begonia, obtained by crossing B. 

 cinnabarina with B. nitida, the result being a freer flowering 

 ])lant than cinnabarina, with even higher coloured flowers 

 than those of that fine kind, while the foliage was very nearly 

 the same as that of nitida. 



To Mr. Macintosh, Nurseryman, Maida Vale, Edgeware Road, 

 for a very fine shrubby specimen of Common Mignonette 

 (Reseda odorata). It was stated to have been a single 

 plant pricked out into a pot last January, and shifted on 

 till it had attained a large size. It was mentioned that 

 Mignonette is not an annual, as many imagine it to be ; 

 but that it will become a woody shrub, and last for years, 



