Ixii PROCEEDINGS. 



Jtilj 20, 1852. (Regent Street.) 



Ill consequence of a .sufficient nuiiibei" of Fellows not being 

 present on tliis occasion, a quorum was not formed. The fol- 

 lowing subjects were, however, presented for exhibition : — 



Mr. Glendiniiing, F.H.S., sent a collection of Gloxinias, con- 

 sisting of Teuchlerii, Wortleyana, Maria Van Houtte, Mrs. 

 Griffiths, Rubra, Grandiflora, Baron Rozel, and the following 

 new kinds: Albert Courtin, Souvenir de Bordeaux, Newelliana, 

 and Huntleyana. 



Mrs. Lawrence, F.H.S., produced a handsomely flowered 

 Epacris miniata, Saccolabium Blumei and anotlier species, and 

 the variety of Aerides suavissimum called flavidum. 



Mr. Watson, gardener to Mrs. Tredwell, of St. John's Lodge, 

 Norwood, had Clerodendron fcetidum. 



Mr. Ingram, of the Koyal Gardens, Frogmore, sent a very 

 pretty hybrid Achimenes, with large handsome leaves and deep 

 orange-scarlet flowers, lined up the centre of the petals with 

 minute round black dots. It was stated to have been raised 

 between A. oculata and A. picta. Bunches of the white Cor- 

 niclion Grape, a large very fleshy variety, of second-rate value, 

 also came from the same establisliment. As this now exists in 

 many collections of this country, it may be as well to explain 

 that it is very difficult to ripen, acquiring perfect maturity only 

 in the long hot summers of Sicily, and similar parts of the Medi- 

 terranean. AYhen ripe it is bright amber-coloured. 



Messrs. Veitch contributed 12 specimens of the early sweet- 

 kernelled Kaisha Apricot, of which some account appeared in 

 vol. iv., p. 189. It is by far the earliest Apricot of good quality 

 in this country. 



Mr. Fleming, gardener to the Duke of Sutherland, F.II.S., at 

 Trentham, produced a beautiful Moscow Queen Pine-apple, 

 weighing 5i lbs. 



From Mr. Cuthill, of Denmark-hill, Camberwell, came ex- 

 amples of tlie Lapstone Kidney Potato, wliieh, though a late 

 sort, was nearly ripe. They had been treated according lo the 

 plan published in his pamphlet on the Potato. 



Specimens of capital glass milk-pans, as cheap as any foreign 

 ones, were furnished by Mr. Phillips, of Bishopsgate-street. 



II.— NOVELTIES FEOM THE SOCIETY'S GARDEN, 

 A Californian Lily, with small reflexed orange blossoms 

 spotted with black and tinged at the ends of the petals with 

 reddish brown. 



Along with this also came examples of Neapolitan Cabbage 

 and white Paris Cos Lettuces, two first-rate varieties which do 

 not readily run to seed; and the Auvergne Pea, a prolific kind, 

 easily distinguished by the curved form of its pods. 



