PROCEEDINGS. 



white is very pure and the flower large, while the foliage bears a 

 close resemblance to the Cape species. This seeds very freely, 

 and from it I anticipate something good." 



From Mr. Smith, Gardener to Mrs. Eeay, came bunches of 

 Oldaker's West's St. Peter's Grape, black, with a good bloom on 

 them, but not ripe. The same exhibitor also sent a hybrid green- 

 fleshed Melon. 



From Mr. Grant, Gardener to G. H. Simms, Esq., came 

 Victory of Bath green-fleshed Melon, which, on being cut up, 

 proved to be not very good. 



Mr. Fleming produced a dish of Brown Turkey Figs, from 

 Trentham ; they were stated to have been grown in a house of 

 peculiar construction, which is fully described and figured in the 

 Gardeners Chronicle for 1852, p. 372. The house was finished 

 in April of that year, and there are now plenty of ripe Figs in it, 

 as well as a good crop of Grapes (swelling), and on the front trellis 

 a few nice Apricots. Mr. Fleming stated that these houses 

 answer better than any he has, and that similar ones are being 

 erected by many noblemen and gentlemen throughout the 

 country. 



IV.— ARTICLES FROM THE SOCIETY'S GARDEN. 



The white variety of Platycodon chinensis ; Myosotis azorica, a 

 brilliant deep-blue flowered plant, that ought to be better known 

 than it is ; various Achimenes, among which was the pure white 

 A. Margarettce ; Oxalis rosea, a very showy kind for con- 

 servatory shelves, producing great masses of round rosy flowers. 

 Calceolaria chelidouoides, a yellow sort, which, having no open 

 mouth in the flowers, will be found to be useful for bedding in 

 wet seasons ; and the following new annuals, viz., Schizanthus 

 violaceus, the white Eschscholtzia, the yellow Hymenoxis califor- 

 nica ; a white variety of Campanula pentagonia, the orange- 

 flowered Cacalia sonchifolia, Podolepis chrysantha, Yenidium 

 calendulaceum and eximium, the white variety of Nolana grandi- 

 flora, Cenia turbinata, and C. t. formosa ; Centranthus macro- 

 siphon, and its pale variety called rosea, both handsome Valerian- 

 worts ; Monolopia californica, and Collinsia bartsisefolia. 



The oi'chard department contributed the following vegetables, 

 viz. : — Knight's Tall Blue and tall White Marrow, Dickson's 

 Early Favourite, Fairbeard's Champion of England and Blue 



