V1 PROCEEDINGS. 



October. It was also mentioned that the white sort was pre- 

 ferred, that being less attractive to birds than the red kind. 



To Mr. Pyper, Gardener to E. St. Vincent Digby, Esq., F.H.S., 

 of Minterne, Dorchester, for an exhibition, consisting of 

 Mandarin Oranges, the produce of a second crop this year, 

 the first being ripe in August last; some very large Madras 

 Citrons ; a sweet Lime ; and fruit of the Cedratier de Salo, 

 a thick-rinded Citron, which is not eatable, but which is 

 valuable for its perfume and preserving. 



Certificate of Merit : — 



To Mr. Chapman, Gardener to J. B. Glegg, Esq., for three 

 heads of the Withington Red Celery. " It is considered 

 here (Mr. Glegg's) a good kind, twisted and solid, sweet, and 

 kernelly. I don't know that it is out of the common way ; 

 but we have had the sort for above thirty years, the seed 

 being raised annually in this garden, having been originally 

 brought from Somersetshire." 



II.— MISCELLANEOUS SUBJECTS OF EXHIBITION. 



Mr. E. G. Henderson, of St. John's Wood, had an exhibition of 

 Pompone Chrysanthemums, in which the most remarkable were 

 Solfaterre, a kind resembling Sacramento, but larger; Renoncule, 

 pink ; and a brown kind, named La Lilliputienne. 



In a group of Pompones from Messrs. Chandler, of Vauxhall, 

 (not sent for competition) w T as one named Le Nain Be-Be, a small 

 pink sort, and very pretty ; the chief peculiarity, however, about 

 it was its having a faint scent, like that of violets. 



Of Orchids, Messrs. Weeks and Co. sent Maxillaria picta, 

 Zygopetalum crinitum, and the Birds-bill Oncid (0. ornitho- 

 rhynchum). 



Mr. Dodds, Gardener to Sir John. Cathcart, Bart., F.H.S., pro- 

 duced two beautifully-ripened Queen Pine-apples, each weighing 

 4 lbs. 6 oz. 



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

 Trentham, also sent three fruit of the same kind of Pine, weighing 

 respectively 4 lbs. 14 oz., 4 lbs. oz., and 4 lbs. 6 oz. — all finely- 

 formed fruit, with small crowns. 



Mr. Chapman, Gardener to J. B. Glegg, Esq., furnished a 



