PROCEEDINGS. 



Castle, in Yorkshire, showed fifty pods of Knight's Dwarf Marrow 

 Peas, in good condition. They had been sown on the 19th of 

 July, on a piece of ground which had just been cleared of Early 

 Potatoes. The ground had no other preparation after taking up 

 the Potatoes than common flat digging, and Mr. Harley says, " I 

 am certain that at the present moment, if required to do so, I 

 could gather three bushels of Peas such as those sent. I have 

 gathered a dish for the table every other day since the 29th of 

 September, from a sowing made on the 1st of July. I have six- 

 teen rows, twenty yards long, of the same sort now produced ; and 

 I can, without fear of contradiction, say that they are as healthy 

 in foliage, bloom, and pod, as any crop of Peas could be in June 

 or July." 



A drawing of Hibiscus Rosa sinensis, exeeuted by Miss Eliza- 

 beth Stone, of 66, East Street, Brighton, was shown by the Duke 

 of Marlborough. 



III.— ARTICLES FROM THE SOCIETY'S GARDEN. 



Veronica Andersonii, one of the most useful of winter-flowering 

 greenhouse plants ; and a bright-red coloured hybrid Begonia, 

 raised between mauicata and cinnabarina. Along with these also 

 came fruit of the Duchesse d'Angouleme, Styrian, Beurre Diel, 

 and Belmont Pears; and the following vegetables, viz., Walls' 

 Early White Celery, which was better than any of the other sorts 

 exhibited ; Early TJlm Savoy, an excellent sort, now pretty well 

 known ; two specimens of the Blue Winter Kohl Rabi, a good 

 garden kind; Flanders and Lettuce-leaved Spinach, both excellent 

 winter sorts of nearly equal merit ; and ripe examples of the large 

 Spanish Capsicum, a sort somewhat resembling a Tomato, and 

 sweet and agreeable, being devoid of nearly all that pungency 

 which is peculiar to other Capsicums. They had been ripened in 

 Mr. Swing's glass walls, where the plants had been for the last 

 two months. 



IV.— BOOKS PRESENTED. 



Flora Batava, No. 169. From His Majesty the King of Holland. 



The Athenseum for October. From the Editor. 



Proceedings of the Royal Society, Vol. VI., Nos. 86, 87, 88, and 89. From the Society. 



Journal of the Eoyal Agricultural Society, Vol. XIII., Part 1. From the Society. 



Journal of the Royal Geographical Society, Vol. XXI. From the Society. 



The Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, No. 31. From the Society. 



Fifth Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution ; On the 

 Recent Improvements in the Chemical Arts; and American Zoological, Botanical, 

 and Geological Bibliography for 1851. From the Smithsonian Institution. 



