PKOCEEDINGS. XXXlll 



the pretty Boronia triphylla ; a variegated-leaved Coronilla 

 glauca ; Elseocarpus deutatus ; a species of Aotus ; and two dwarf, 

 compact, free-flowering' Rhododendrons. 



Mr. Jones, Gardener to Sir J. Guest, Bart., F.H.S., furnished 

 three Ripley Queen Pine Apples, weighing respectively 4 lbs. 

 2 oz., 3 lbs. 13 oz., and 3 lbs. 10 oz. 



A plan for labelling Roses, the invention of Mr. Bohn, of 

 York Street, Covent Garden, was brought under the notice of 

 the meeting by the Rev. W. B. Hawkins, F.H.S. In a letter 

 relating to these labels Mr. Hawkins says : — " Mr. Henry G. 

 Bohn, the eminent publisher, of York Street, Covent Garden, 

 and of North End House, Twickenham, who has paid consider- 

 able attention to horticulture, and particularly to the cultivation 

 of roses, lias written to me describing a mode of labelling these 

 plants adopted by him in his garden, which appears so ingenious, 

 and is at the same time so practicable and ecoiiomical, that I 

 think it should be brought before the notice of the Society. 

 Mr. Bohn's plan is this : he uses a paper label, at one end of 

 which is printed the name of the rose, and at the other end the 

 colour and general description of the plant ; this label is then 

 folded in half and pasted back to back ; it is then cast in a 

 small flat tube of glass, closed at both ends, with a ring (in 

 glass) at one end to hold the soft wire by which it is to be sus- 

 pended from the plant. The following extract from Mr. Bohn's 

 letter will perhaps aflbrd a better explanation of Jiis plan. He 

 says, ' You seemed to think that tlie Society would like to see 

 my plan of labelling Roses, and proposed to bring it to their 

 notice at the next meeting. With that object I have the plea- 

 sure of sending you the first complete set of labels which has 

 been received from the printer's, together with a sample of the 

 mode of applying them. Glass tallies have been before the 

 public for some time, but they did not answer well, as the lead 

 or putty with which they were closed was prettj"^ sure to drop 

 out. Mine are the first, I believe, which are cast with the label 

 inside, and though I now find plenty able to do it, I was told by 

 several, when the idea occurred to me, that it could not be done. 

 Having upwards of a thousand roses, printing the labels is to 

 me a matter of economy as well as of convenience and neatness. 

 The cost is not more t\ia,n five farthings per label — paper, print, 

 and glass included. As all who have seen the plan approve of it 

 very much, and several growers intend to adopt it, especially for 

 Orchids, I^should be glad to have it seen previously by the 

 Society.' " 



Specimens of the label in its glass case were exhibited. 



