XX PROCEEDINGS. 



Society this year. They were stated to have been produced 

 in a house heated on the Polmaise system. 



Miscellaneous Subjects of Exhibition. Messrs. Veitch 

 furnislied a bloom of the pretty lig-ht-coloured striped 

 Camellia, named Countess of Orkney. Messrs. Standish and 

 Noble contributed a flowering plant of Viburnum macroce- 

 phalum, raised from a cutting struck last autumn. Messrs. 

 Henderson examples of Narcissi, among which the best were 

 Nannette, yellow, and Radiator, white with a yellow centre. 

 Mr. E. G. Henderson, St. John's Wood, sent an Ixora and 

 two seedling Rhododendrons, a crimson and a light kind. 

 Dielytra spectabilis was exhibited by Mr. Clark, Nursery- 

 man, Brixton Hill; but by far the finest specimen of this 

 hardy Fumewort was produced by Mr. Edmonds, Gardener 

 to His Grace the Duke of Devonshire at Chiswick House. 

 The latter was unfortunately disqualified from receiving any 

 prize, on account of its arriving too late, it being especially 

 required that all subjects of exhibition shall be in tlie room 

 two clear hours before the time of meeting. The same thing 

 happened in regard to a Java Rhododeuflron from Messrs. 

 Rollisson, wliich also came too late to fall under the con- 

 sideration of the judges. From Messrs. Lane, of Great 

 Berkhampsiead, came a single white seedling Camellia and 

 a specimen of the sweet Trichopil (Triciiopilia suavis). 

 Messrs. Loddiges sent a handsome pale rose-coloured Rho- 

 dodendron, raised from Nepaul seeds ; and Mr. Myatt, of 

 Deptford, showed two nicely -flowered Cyclamens. Mr. 

 Higgs, Gardener to J. Barchard, Esq., F.H.S., sent Keens' 

 Seedling Strawberries ; and a seedling Strawberry very like 

 the Roseberry was produced by Mr. Cooper, of Yeovil, 

 Somerset. A "Fruit Gatherer" was exhibited by Mr. 

 Nevill, of Crutched Friars, and some very nice ornamental 

 Flower Stands by Mr. E. G. Henderson, of the Wellington 

 Road Nursery. 



Novelties from the Society's Garden. Boronia tetran- 

 di'a, and Forsythia viridissiina. 



Cuttings of the following Pears were distributed to Fellows : — 



Fowis Castle. 



One of those hardy pears, raised by Mr. Knight, which 

 has not fruited in the Garden, and therefore its merits can- 

 not be particularly stated. 



Forme de De'lices. 



This is not generally known ; but from what has been seen 



