PROCEEDINGS. 



To Mr. Smith, of Horosey Road, for a collection of Pompone 

 Chrysanthemums. 



III.— MISCELLANEOUS SUBJECTS OF EXHIBITION. 



Mr. Edmonds, of Chiswick House, contributed a collection of 

 Pompone Chrysanthemums, but it arrived too late for com- 

 petition, the Society's rules requiring that everything shall be in 

 the exhibition room three clear hours before the time of meeting. 



The only group of large-flowered Chrysanthemums produced 

 came from Mr. E. G. Henderson, of Wellington-road. Their 

 names were Lady Hunlake, King, Temple of Solomon (a brilliant 

 yellow), Madame Camerson, Dupont de FEure, and Madame 

 Poggi. 



Of English Pears the best was a collection from Mr. Snow, 

 Gardener to Earl de Grey, but it was disqualified, on account of 

 its arriving too late. 



Mr. Monro, Gardener to the Earl of Clarendon, at the Grove, 

 Watford, also sent an exhibition of Pears which arrived too late. 



Mr. Atkinson, Gardener to Lady Molyneux, of Stoke Farm, 

 near Slough (whose exhibition, together with the three following, 

 were disqualified, on account of their containing wrongly named 

 sorts), sent fine fruit of Beurre Ranee, Easter Beurre (misnamed 

 Beurre Diel), Glout Morceau, Winter Nelis, and Ne Plus Meuris 

 Pears. 



Mr. Burns, of Chevening, had Beurre d'Aremberg, Glout 

 Morceau, Winter Nelis, Beurre Ranee, Jean de Witte, and Beurre 

 Diel (misnamed Duchesse d'Angouleme). 



Mr. Bloore, Gardener to the Rev. J. J. Hornby, of Win wick 

 Hall, Warrington, sent good examples (for the ungenial climate 

 of Lancashire) of Passe Colmar, Winter Crassane, Glout Morceau, 

 Beurre Ranee, Bonne de Malines, and Glout Morceau (misnamed 

 Beurre dAremberg). 



Messrs. Lane, of Great Berkhampstead, had Napoleon, Beurre 

 Ranee, Colmar, Beurre Rauce again (misnamed Easter Beurre), 

 Passe Colmar, and Winter Nelis. 



Messrs. Smith, Alderson, Davis, and Moore, also sent col- 

 lections, which contained, in addition to the sorts mentioned 

 above, specimens of Chaumontel, Bishop's Thumb, Althorp 



