xliv PKOCEEDINGS. 



ratuni, Sarcopoiliuiu Lobbii, and Cypripediiun barbatum 

 atropurpureum. 



Certificate of Merit : — 



To Mr. Flouri, Gardener to C. P.ailey, Esq., M.P., for a 

 Providence Pine Apple, weighino; 9 lbs. 



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

 at Trenthani, for Murray Nectarines, well swelled and 

 highly coloured. 



To Mr. Reith, Gardener to Mrs. Sniythe, F.H.S., for a dish 

 of Royal George Peaches. 



To Mr. Davis, of Oak Hill, East Barnet, for Black Ham- 

 burgh Grapes. 



III.— MISCELLANEOUS SUBJECTS OF EXHIBITION. 



J. Allnutt, Esq., of Clapham Common, furnished a large 

 semi-double Azalea called Fulgens, and a hardy hybrid Rhodo- 

 dendron which lie had found to flower well this year, while the 

 blossoms of other hybrids of the same nature, associated with it, 

 had been all killed by the cold winds and frosty nights of the 

 late peculiar spring. 



From Mr. Fleming came two examples of the Trentham Hybrid 

 Melon, weighing respectively 2 lbs. 10 oz. and 3 lbs. 4 oz. 



The true Bailey's Green-fleshed Melon, a round netted kind, 

 weighing in this instance 5 lbs. 11 oz., was sent by Mr. Bailey, 

 of Shardeloes Gardens, Amersham, who raised the variety from 

 seed upwards of 20 years ago. It was stated by Mr. Bailey to 

 be a finely flavoured variety. 



Mr. Smith, of Mauchline, in Ayrshire, exhibited specimens of 

 what he called a " transplant sliade," which he expects will 

 prove better than flower-pots for sheltering newly bedded-out 

 plants, &c., from the heat of the sun in the day-time and from cold 

 at nio-hts. He says, " Observing in the gardens of the surrounding 

 nobility and gentry that when plants are first transplanted out 

 they are usually covered from the solar rays by means of flower- 

 pots inverted over them and propped up on one side to admit the 

 air it struck me that this was at least not very craftsmanlike, 

 and that it could not answer the purpose in the best possible 

 way. I have made a model for an article intended to be formed 

 of earthenware, and used for ' transplant shades.' It will be 

 understood that these shades would be intended to stand on three 

 short legs, so as to admit a fresh supply of air from all quarters, 

 and that the other end is so contrived as to catch the quantity, 



