PROCEEDINGS. 



UoUisson, arrived too late to receive any Jiward. Among the 

 Orchids were Oncidium varicosum, a charming species with u 

 large round yellow lip ; the Blue Vanda, a very ornamental plant 

 at this season ; Sophronitis grandiflora, suffering in colour for 

 want of bright sunliglit, but nevertheless extremely gay ; Miltonia 

 Moreliana, which is only a purple variety of M. grandiflora ; the 

 pretty Cattleya Pineli, Ljelia Perrini, and one or two other 

 species. 



A'arious Garden Labels were furnished by Messrs. Branston & 

 Co., Red Lion Square, Bloomsbury. They were made of galva- 

 nised cast-irou, very neat in appearance, the name, &c., being 

 printed in large handsome letters, on a plate of glass let into the 

 head of the label, and hermetically sealed, so as to preserve the 

 name from the action of the weather. They varied from Is. 2(Z. 

 to 1.5. (Jd. each. One, a large and handsome label, costing 3s. Gd., 

 was made of strong wrought iron, with the head riveted on, so 

 that it could not possibly break, wliich cast-iron ones are apt to 

 do when hit sharply with a roller, or other heavy implement. 



III.— ARTICLES FROM THE SOCIETY'S GARDEN. 



The early flowering Pompone Chrysanthemum called Hender- 

 soui, a variety of Thunbergiaalata named Freyeri, Perillajaponica, 

 a deep purplish brown-leaved small-flowered annual, with a strong 

 and by no means disagreeable perfume ; flowers of Oestrum 

 aurantiacum, which blooms so freely several times a year in the 

 larger conservatory, and cut flowers of the following hardy Annuals 

 (the only collection produced), viz. : — the Camomile-like Cenia 

 turbinata, and t. formosa ; Venidium calendulaceum, Dianthus 

 Gardneri, the white-flowered Gypsophila Steveni (which has been 

 extremely gay all the season), Gilia tricolor, Viscaria oculata, 

 Eucharidium grandiflorum. Erysimum Perofskianum, three kinds 

 of Coreopsis, Calliopsis Drummondi, seven varieties of Lupine, 

 Lobelia gracilis, (xnaphalium bracteatum. Campanula vincfeflora, 

 Senecio albus, Schizauthe peduncularis, the Bladder Ketrum, 

 Tagetes miniata striata, Limnanthcs alba, the ugly Tropneolum 

 Shuurmanianum, eanariense, and Lobbianum ; Godetia rubicunda 

 and lepida. Mignonette, Sweet Alyssum, Brompton Stock, 

 Impatiens glanduligera. Cosmos bipinnatus atro-purpureus, 

 Chinese Pink, and Pot Marigold. These were all flowering in 

 great perfection until the frost of the 3rd inst. arrived, which very 

 much impaired tlieir beauty, and altogether killed more tender 

 kinds. 



