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Boxted Lodge, Colchester ; George Peabody, Esq., Club 

 Chambers, Regent Street ; John Butler, Esq., Woolwich ; 

 Mr. Stevens, 38, King Street, Covent Garden ; Mr. Fer- 

 guson, Nurseryman, Stowe, Bucks ; and, as a Corresponding 

 Member, Mr. M'lntosh, Gardener to the Duke of Buc- 

 cleugh, at Dalkeith Palace. 



Awards. Knightian Medal: To Mr. Mylam, Gardener to S. 

 Rucker, Esq., F.H.S., for a charming mass of the Cam- 

 bridge Dendrobe (D. Cambridgeanum), the fragrant Bur- 

 lingtonia, the Long-tailed Lady's Slipper (Cypripedium 

 caudatum), one of the best sorts of Skinner's Lycaste, toge- 

 ther with the ivory-flowered Cymbid (Cymbidium ebur- 

 neum), a variety of it sliglitly tinged with pink, and the 

 beautiful Dendrobium anosmum. 



Banhsian Medal : To Messrs. Veitch, of Exeter, for a plant 

 of the beautiful Rhododendron jasminiflorum, an evergreen 

 greenhouse bush, with long, narrow, waxy, white flowers. 



Certificate of Merit: To Mr. Butcher, Gardener to W. Leaf, 

 Esq., of Park Hill, Streatliam, for a dish of Muscat of 

 Alexandria Grapes, the produce of 1850. They were a 

 little shrivelled, but were nevertheless still in good condi- 

 tion. They were stated to have been cut on the morning 

 on which they were exhibited. Ripe fruit was gathered 

 from the same vines on the 24th of April last year, and they 

 were reported to have furnished a supply every week since 

 up to the present time, making forty-six weeks out of the 

 fifty-two in which grapes were cut fur table. It was men- 

 tioned that experience had proved the Muscat to be the best 

 variety for hanging long on the vines, and at the same time 

 preserving its flavour. To Mr, Higgs, Gardener to J. H. 

 Barchard, Esq., F.H.S., for a dish of Keens' Seedling 

 Strawberry. To Mr. Bennett, Gardener to J. Smith, Esq., 

 of Dulwich, for the same. 



Miscellaneous Subjects op Exhibition. A Moscow Queen 

 Pine Apple, scarcely ripe, and on that account unrewarded, 

 was produced by Mr. Jones, Gardener to Sir J. Guest, 

 Bart., F.H.S. It weighed 3 lbs. 6 oz., a good weight for 

 a Pine at this season of the year. Examples of ornamental 

 rustic baskets, for placing flowering plants in, were fur- 

 nished by Mr. Howlette, of St. Osyth, Colchester. They 

 were of different shapes, so as to lit them for hanging up 

 against the walls of entrance halls, or in conservatories, and 

 were formed of wood encased in Larch cones, whose tops 

 pointed outwards. The chains by which they were sus- 



