PROCEEDINGS. 



February 17, 1852. (Regent Street.) 



I.— ELECTIONS. 



Mrs. Villebnis, Benham Park, Newbury ; Henry D. Davis, 

 Esq., Spring Grove, Hounslow ; James Pateshall Jones, Esq., 

 Turkey Street, Enfield; Gilbert Burns, Esq., Dublin; and Mr. 

 T. B. Lawrence, 55, Parliament Street, London. 



II.— MEDALS AWARDED. 



Knightian Medal: — 



To Mr. Franklin, Gardener to Mrs. Lawrence, F.H.S,, for an 

 interesting collection of Orchids, consisting of Zygopetalum 

 rostratum, Oncidium Cavendishii, and the handsome O. 

 unguiculatum, a well coloured variety of Lycaste Skinneri, 

 and L. tetragona (?), a good example of Ansellia africana, 

 Cyrtochilum raaculatum, and cut flower spikes of the charm- 

 ing Amherstia nobilis, which has been found to grow and 

 flower so admirably at Ealing Park. 



Banksian Medal : — 



To Mr. Butcher, Gardener to W. Leaf, Esq.,F.H.S., Streatham, 

 for magnificent Cannon Hall Muscat Grapes, just beginning 

 to shrivel, and distinguished by that fine violet tinge which 

 is peculiar to this variety when produced in perfection. 



To Mr. Fleming, Gardener to the Duke of Sutherland, F.H.S. , 

 at Trentham, for a Black Prince Pine Apple, weighing 

 S^Ibs., and an Enville, weighing 41bs. ISozs. 



Certificate of Merit : — 



To Mr. Wooley, Gardener to H. B. Ker, Esq., Cheshunt, for 

 a well cultivated Cypripedium insigne, bearing some 15 or 

 16 blossoms. 



III.— MISCELLANEOUS SUBJECTS OF EXHIBITION. 



Messrs. Henderson, of Pine Apple Place, sent Araucaria 

 Cookii, even a handsomer species tiian the Norfolk Island Pine 

 itself; a pretty hybrid Begonia, with Franciscea confertiflora and 

 eximia. 



The Rev. F. Beadon, F.H.S., of North Stonliam, furnished a 

 boxful of striped Camellia flowers, gathered from a south wall. 



