PROCEEDINGS AT MEETINGS OF THE 

 SOCIETY. 



October 1, 1850. (Regent Street.) 



Elections. Sir R. Burdett, Bart., Regent's Park, London ; 

 John Shaw Leigh, Esq., Luton Park, Beds ; and L. B. 

 Foster, Esq., Norwich. 



Awards. Large Silver Medal: To Mr. Ingram, Gardener to 

 Her Majesty at Frogmore, for a beautiful example of the 

 Prickly Cayenne Pine-apple, weighing 7 lbs. 5 ozs. 



Knightian Medal : To Mr. Franklin, Gardener to Mrs. Law- 

 rence, F.H.S., for a collection of Orchids, consisting of 

 Oncidium Papilio, Vanda suavis, Lselia Perrinii, Cattleya 

 bicolor (with a highly coloured lip), a Cycnoches from 

 Costa Rica, and one or two other plants. 



Banhsian Medal : To Messrs. Veitch and Son, for a Flowering 

 Plant of Lapageria rosea. " It was sent to us by Mr. Wil- 

 liam Lobb, from ' Conception.' The specimen now produced 

 was bloomed in our conservatory, where we planted it out a 

 very small plant about eighteen months since. Mr. G. 

 Davey, a gentleman who has resided many years in South 

 America, but now of the firm of Anthony C^ibbs and Co., 

 of London, has seen it growing in its natural habitat, and 

 believes it will prove perfectly hardy ; he found it mixed 

 with Lardizabala triternata, a fine evergreen climber, and 

 which we have proved to be as hardy as the Irish ivy. It 

 is a very free growing plant, and apparently an abundant 

 bloomer." The blossoms individually are extremely hand- 

 some, and exactly resemble the published drawings of them 

 both in shape and colour, except that the minute white spots 

 which are represented as being spread over the interior of 

 the crimson bell were nearly wanting, or very indistinctly 

 marked, in the specimen shown. To Mr. Selkirk, Gardener 

 to W. J. Meyers, Esq., Porters, Shenley, for the same. 

 To Mr. Turner, Royal Nursery, Slough, for an exhibition 

 of Dahlias, consisting of large and exquisite blooms of the 

 following varieties : — Duke of "Wellington, Thames Bank 

 Hero, Fearless, John Edwards, Magnificent, Earl of Cla- 

 rendon, Richard Cobden, Mrs. Seldon (Turner), Essex 

 Triumph, Queen of Lilacs (Turner), Mr. Seldon (Turner), 

 Toison d'Or, Snowflake, Scarlet Gem (Turner), Seraph, 



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