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V.— BOOKS PRESENTED. 



Bombay Magnetical and Meteorological Observations for 1848. From the Court of 



Directors, East India Company. 

 Transactions of the Zoological Society, Volume IV., Part III., and proceedings of ditto, 



No. 201 to 217. From the Society. 

 The Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, No. 34. From the Society. 

 Versuch eines Commentars iiber die Pflanzen, &c, by Dr. von JIartius. From the 



Author. .• 



June 11th, 1853. (Garden Exhibition.) 



The weather on this occasion was exceedingly favourable ; and 

 the exhibition, in every department, excellent. Roses in pots 

 were in perfection — tall and stately, and loaded with flowers from 

 top to bottom. As in May, Stove and Greenhouse plants were 

 perhaps a little defective as regards variety and novelty, but as 

 examples of good cultivation they were unsurpassable. Orchids 

 were present in profusion, and finer, if possible, than they were 

 in May. Cape Heaths and Pelargoniums, too, were unusually 

 brilliant ; and there was a remarkably good show of fruit. The 

 number of visitors was 7044, exclusive of exhibitors, and persons 

 officially employed. 



I.— AWARDS. 

 The Large Gold Medal : — 



To Mr. May, Gardener to Mrs. Lawrence, F.H.S., for a 

 collection of twenty Stove and Greenhouse Plants. 



The Gold Knightian Medal : — 



To Mr. Green, Gardener to Sir E. Antrobus, Bart., F.H.S., 

 for a collection of twenty Stove and Greenhouse Plants. 



To Mr. Franklin, Gardener to Mrs. Lawrence, F.H.S., for 

 twenty species of Exotic Orchids. 



The Gold Banksian Medal : — 



To Messrs. Fraser, of Lea Bridge Road, Essex, for a collec- 

 tion of twenty Stove and Greenhouse Plants. 



To Mr. Carson, Gardener to W. F. G. Farmer, Esq., F.H.S., 

 for a collection of fifteen Stove and Greenhouse Plants 



To Mr. May, Gardener to Mrs. Lawrence, F.H.S., for a 

 collection of six Stove and Greenhouse Plants in 20-inch 

 pots. 



