PROCEEDINGS. 



Certificate of Merit : — 



To Mr. Gill, of Westbourne Grove, Bayswater, for a bright rose- 

 coloured Pelargonium, named Queen of February. 



To Messrs. Henderson, of Pine Apple Place, for a plant of the 

 Sikkim Rhododendron ciliare, which flowered so freely at 

 Chats worth and other places last year. It was stated to be 

 quite as cultivable as a Chinese Azalea, and when grown in 

 little heat the blooms are well coloured ; but in the present 

 instance the plant had been kept in a hothouse, and therefore 

 they were paler than they otherwise should have been. 



III.— MISCELLANEOUS SUBJECTS OF EXHIBITION. 



Mr. Young, of Milford, showed three plants of Cupressus 

 Goveniana, two bearing quantities of ripe cones, and one in full 

 flower. 



Two Pineapples, a Black Antigua, weighing 3 lbs. 5 oz., and 

 a Queen, 2h lbs., were produced by Mr. Davis, of Oak Hill, East 

 Barnet. 



Some Tea-seed furnished by H. Winch, Esq., F.H.S., of Sea- 

 combe, Cheshire, was distributed to such Fellows as wished to 

 receive it. It was stated to have been sent to this country by 

 Dr. Bowring, and that if it came from the north of China (as it 

 was believed it did), the produce would be about as hardy as a 

 Camellia. 



The Hon. W. F. Strangways again furnished examples of the 

 mild climate of Dorsetshire, in the shape of cut specimens of 

 Primula Palinuri (which is supposed to be the parent of our 

 garden Auricula), the rare Helleborus abchasicus, Euphorbia 

 mellifera, the blue Lithospermum rosmarinifolium (a shrub well 

 worth a place in a greenhouse when it will not flower out of 

 doors), the fragrant Iris reticulata, and other interesting plants 

 in blossom in the open garden at Abbotsbury. 



IV.— ARTICLES FROM THE SOCIETY'S GARDEN. 



Plants of the fringed white, single white, double white, fringed 

 red, single red, and cut-petalled red varieties of Chinese Primulas, 

 Rogeria Roezlii ; Centradenia floribunda and rosea, the former 



