PROCEEDINGS. vii 



With regard to the foregoing exhibitions, it should be 

 mentioned, that in addition to the Society's prizes, the two 

 exhibitors (Mr. Burns and Mr. Smith) received, the first, 

 oL, and the second -21., being sums offered by Dr. Lindley 

 in the beginning of the season, to be aNvarded to those culti- 

 vators who might carry off the gi'eatest number of prizes for 

 vegetables at the meetings in May, June, and July. 



To Mr. Fleming, Gardener to the Duke of Sutherland, F.H.S., 

 at Trentham, for a Black Prince and Providence Pine-apple, 

 the first weighing 5^ lbs. 



Certificate of Merit: — 



To Messrs. Henderson, of Pine Apple Place, for six Plants of 

 Burridge's Salpiglossis coccinea, a showy kind, but appa- 

 rently not fixed in colour, the flowers being much paler 

 this year than last. 



To Messrs. Youell, of Great Yarmouth, for a box-full of unusu- 

 ally large and fine fruit of the Fastolf Raspberry. 



To Mr. Myatt, of Deptford, for his Strawberry, called Cinque- 

 folia, which, on being handed to the Chairman, was pro- 

 nounced by him to be "a well-flavoured and very good 

 variety." 



To Mr. Draper, Gardener to the Bishop of Salisbury, for a 

 beautifully-ripened and well-formed Queen Pine-apple, 

 weighing 5 lbs. '2 oz. 



To Mr. Jones, Gardener to Lady Charlotte Guest, Dowlais 

 House, Glamorganshire, for two handsome Ripley Queen 

 Pine-apples, weighing respectively 4 lbs. 14 oz. and 4i lbs. 



To J. Luscombe, Esq., F.H.S., Combe Roj'al, Kingsbridge, 

 Devon, for half-a-dozen Shaddocks. They were stated to 

 have been produced by a tree growing against a south wall 

 where it received no protection except that of a reed frame 

 at night, or in very severe weather by day. 



III.— MISCELLANEOUS SUBJECTS OF EXHIBITION. 



Mr. Spivey, Gardener to J. A. Houblon, Esq., of Hallingbury, 

 near Bishop's Stortford, contributed a collection of Vegetables : 

 but they were not near so good as those sent from Chevening or 

 Blake Hall. 



