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from a cutting put in in December, and had been grown on 

 a greenhouse slielf near the glass. Melons came from Mr. 

 Chapman and Mr. Eckford, Gardener to C. Child, Esq. 

 The former sent two oblong fruit of the Sweet Melon of 

 Cashmere, a white-fleshed sort of which little is at present 

 known. It is, however, evidently related to the Persian 

 kinds. Mr. Eckford had two fruit of the Bromham Hall, 

 one not externally different from it," named Browai's Green 

 Fleshed, and two of the Trentham Hybrid. 



Novelties from the Society's Garden. Brassavola Dig- 

 byana, with its broad fringed lip, and the Chinese Indigo 

 Plant (Isatis indigotica), a Crucifer resembling a young 

 Spring Cabbage. 



Books Presented. 



Proceedings of the American Pliilosophical Society, Vol. V., No. 45, from the 



Society. 

 Transactions of tlie Linnean Society, Vol. XX., Pait III., and Proceedings of ditto, 



from Nos. 41 to 44, from tlie Society. 



Jail] 19, 1851. (Gardisn Exhibition.) 



The number of visitors at this meeting, exclusive of exhibitors, 

 amounted to 9345. The weather was unfavourable, but tlie exhi- 

 bition excellent. In some respects it was perhaps the finest 

 show of the season in which it was held. The fruit, as usual, 

 formed the most remarkable feature. 



The Award was as follows : — 



Large Gold 3Iedal : To Mr. Cole, Gardener to H. Colyer, 

 Esq., of Dartford, for a collection of twenty Stove and 

 Greenhouse Plants. To Mr. Mylam, Gardener to S. 

 Rucker, Esq., F.H.S., for twenty species of Exotic Orchids. 



Gold Knightlan Medal : To Mr. May, Gardener to Mrs. 

 Lawrence, F.H.S. , for a collection of twenty Stove 

 and Greenhouse Plants. To Mr. Gi'een, Gardener to Sir 

 E. Antrobus, Bart., F.H.S., for a collection of fifteen Stove 

 and Greenhouse Plants. To Mr. Franklin, Gardener to 

 Mrs. Lawrence, F.H.S., for twenty species of Exotic 

 Orchids. 



Gold Banksiayi Medal : To Messrs. Eraser, of Lea Bridge 

 Poad, Essex, for a collection of twenty Stove and Green- 

 house Plants. To Mr. Taylor, Gardener to J. Coster, Esq., 

 of Streatham, for a collection of fifteen Stove and Green- 

 house Plants. To Mr. Speed, of Edmonton, for a collec- 



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