PliOCEEDlNGS. 



October 18th, 1853. (Regent Street.) 



I.— AWAEDS. 

 Knightian Medal : — 



To Messrs. Veitch, for Impatiens Jerdonige, a new Greenhouse 

 herbaceous plant of very great beauty. It forras a tuft of 

 fleshy or tuberous stems, about a foot high, of a deep purple 

 colour, concealed by numerous narrow, deep-green, leaves, 

 from among the upj)ermost of which appear great numbers 

 of flowers in general form like those of any other Balsam, 

 but of a brilliant brick-red, relieved by yellow and green. 

 The red belongs to a large, bag-shaped, curved pouch, which 

 hangs down in front of the flower-stalk ; the yellow and 

 green, confined to the small sepals and petals, form a 

 helmet-shaped body, which seems to terminate the pouch. 

 The figure in the Botanical Magazine was taken from a 

 very ill-coloured specimen. It will, no doubt, propagate 

 easily by cuttings, if not by seed, and cannot fail to be a 

 universal favourite. Mr. MTvor sent the tuberous stems 

 from the Neilgherry garden, at Ootacamund, to the Royal 

 Botanic Gardens, Kew, where it first flowered in June, 185 '2. 



Banksian Medal : — 



To Mr. Ingram, Gardener to Her Majesty at Frogmore, for a 

 collection of Pears, consisting of the following kinds, viz. : — 

 Beurre Bosc, Van Mous Leon le Clerc, Marie Louise, 

 Louise Bonne of Jersey, and Autumn and Gansels Ber- 

 gamot. These were all fair-sized specimens, quite ripe, and 

 coi'rectly named. 



To Mr. Lewis Solomon, of Covent Garden, for an exhibition 

 of Foreign produce in the shape of large specimens of the 

 following sorts of Pears, viz. — Crassane, Beurre Magnifique, 

 Duchesse, Le Cure, and Belle Angevine. 



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

 House, Glamorganshire, for three Pine-apples, weighing 

 respectively 4 lbs. 10 oz., 4 lbs. 4 oz., and 4 lbs. 2 oz. 



To Mr. Butcher, of Stratford- on- A von, for three very fine 

 bunches of Barbarossa Grapes, with berries large and black, 

 and covered with a fine bloom. 



