PROCEEDINGS. 



Certificate of Merit : — 



To Mr. Errington, Gardener to Sir Philip cle Malpas Grey 

 Egerton, Bart., F.H.S., Oulton Park, near Tarporley, 

 Cheshire, for a collection of Pears, consisting of Beurre Diel, 

 Duchesse d'Angouleme, Doyenne d'Hiver, Beurre Ranee, 

 and Marie Louise. 



To Mr. Chapman, Gardener to J. B. Glegg, Esq., F.H.S., 

 Withington Hall, near Congleton, Cheshire, for examples of 

 Colmar, Forelle or Trout Pear, Glout Morceau, Winter 

 Nelis, Beurre d'Aremherg, and Passe Colmar. 



To Mr. Snow, Gardener to Earl de Grey, F.H.S., Wrest Park, 

 Bedfordshire, for beautiful dishes of the true old Golden 

 Pippin Apple. They had been grown on trees trained on an 

 east wall, from which it was stated fine healthy crops are 

 annually gathered, while from Standards of this variety in 

 the same garden, the fruit is cankered and bad, from which 

 it was inferred that instead of the Golden Pippin wearing 

 out, as is commonly said, it is in reality too tender for our 

 climate. 



To Mr. Paver, Taunton, for a capital small-crowned Queen 

 Pine-apple, weighing 5 lbs. 4 oz. 



To Mr. Hoare, Gardener to Sir J. Bailey, Bart., M.P., for a 

 Ripley Queen, 5 lbs. 10 oz., and for a Black Jamaica, 

 4 lbs. 14 oz. 



To Mr. Wortley, Gardener to Mrs. Maubert, of Norwood, for 

 three bunches of Muscat Grapes, beautifully swelled and 

 coloured. 



To T. Lockyer, Esq., of South Wembury House, Plymouth, for 

 a dish of large fine-looking Lemons, of good quality, which 

 had been grown in the open air. It was stated that Lemons 

 had been cultivated against a south wall in Mr. Lockyers 

 garden for these last thirty years, the principal care required 

 being merely to protect them from wet, from which they 

 suffer more than from cold. This is readily effected by 

 covering them in wet periods with straw protectors or glass. 

 It was added that good dressings of sheep-droppings to their 

 roots had kept them in a high state of luxuriance. 



To Mr. Edmonds, Gardener to the Duke of Devonshire, F.H.S., 

 at Chiswick House, for a very fine specimen in a square tub 

 of Daphne indica rubra. 



