liv PROCEEDINGS. 



tree, and largely used for building purposes, it being remarkable 

 for the durability of its wood. 



From Mr. Martin, Gardener to Sir H. Fleetwood, Bart., 

 Hill House, Windsor Forest, came Elruge Nectarines and Black 

 Prince and Black Hamburgh Grapes. 



Mr. Summerby, Gardener to Major Martyn, of Fern Cottage, 

 Windsor, sent a specimen in a pot of what was considered by 

 liim to be a new kind of Vine. It proved, however, to be only 

 the Alexandrian Ciotat, a variety remarkable for its singularly 

 cut foliage, but seldom cultivated on account of its want of pro- 

 ductiveness and inferior quality, 



IV.— NOVELTIES FROM THE SOCIETY'S GARDEN. 



Cut specimens, in bloom, of the Californian Cerasus ilicifolia, 

 or evergreen Plum, which is now flowering in the Garden for the 

 first time. Its blossoms resemble those of a Portugal Laurel, 

 and they are said to be succeeded by fi-uit as large as a Sloe, and 

 which is eatable; but it was mentioned that as it belongs to a 

 suspicious family, a trial of its eatable quality must be made with 

 caution. 



The following proposed alteration in the by-laws was read a 

 second time : — " The Council hereby give notice that they pro- 

 pose to substitute for Chapter 8, Article 1, of the present by- 

 liuvs, namely, ' The number of honorary members shall not at 

 any time exceed five,' the following words : ' The number of 

 honorary members shall not at any time exceed ten.' " 



v.— BOOKS PRESENTED. 



Archives du Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Tome 5, Livraison 4, and Tome 6, Livraisons 1 



and 2. From the Museum of Natural History, Paris. 

 The Garden Companion for June. From the Publishers. 

 The Athenaeum for May. From the Editor. 



