PROCEEDINGS. 



Certificate of Merit : — 



To Mr. Summeriield, Gardener to J. S. Venn, Esq., for 

 a Dendrobium in the way of D. Wallichi, but smaller. 



To Mr. Loddiges, F.H.S., for Lselia grandis, a new Brazilian 

 species with sepals and petals of a peculiar cinnamon colour, 

 the lip being lilac, becoming darker towards the point. 



To Mr. Gaines, of Battersea, for three neatly spotted delicate 

 pink Rhododendrons, called Unique, Elegans, and Roseum 

 maculatum. 



To the same for Rogieria thyrsiflora, a plant with rosy 

 Rondeletia like flowers, from Central America. 



To Elizabeth Chaddish, for the following fruits preserved 

 without sugar or vinegar, viz. : Mussel and Damson Plums, 

 (both of 1851 and 1852, the one being about as sound as the 

 other), Bilberries, Cherries, and Gooseberries. 



To Mr. Allport, Gardener to H. Akroyd, Esq., Nantwich, 

 Cheshire, for Black Hamburgh Grapes. 



To Mr. Munro, Gardener to the Earl of Clarendon, at the 

 Grove, Watford, for unusually large fruit of Cuthill's Black 

 Prince Strawberry. 



To Mr. Bates, Manor House, East Moulsey, for seven heads of 

 an unnamed Broccoli, in very good condition, considering 

 the severity of the past winter. 



IIL— MISCELLANEOUS SUBJECTS OF EXHIBITION. 



Mr. Dennis, of the King's Road, Chelsea, sent a small plant of 

 Forsythia viridissima. 



Messrs. Henderson had a pretty hybrid Rhododendron called 

 campanulatum supei'bum, but apparently with very little of 

 campanulatum in it. 



Mr. Gaines sent a seedling Cineraria, called Reine des Fleurs, 

 which promised to be a first-class sort. 



Mr. Mitchell produced a large-flowered Cineraria, called 

 Fairbrother's Mary Elizabeth. 



From Mr. Moore, of the Apothecaries' Garden, Chelsea, came 

 a cut specimen of Melastoma corymbosum. 



