PROCEEDINGS. 



arrived too late for competition. The most striking among them 

 was President Decaisne, a reddish-brown sort with a light centre, 

 the two colours in the same bloom producing a charming contrast. 

 Of some new kinds exhibited by the last-named firm from M. 

 Van Houtte, of Ghent, the following were the best, viz., Marcian, 

 a medium-sized sort with pink jDetals, fading off at their points 

 to white, thereby giving the flower the appearance of being 

 striped or mottled ; Jonas, a small-flowered sort with reddish- 

 brown petals, tipped with yellow; and Mdlle Angelique Richard, 

 a medium-sized sort, with compact heads of flowers nearly white 

 in the centre, with a pink rim round the circumference of each 

 bloom, and altogether very pretty. 



Messrs. Chandler, of Vauxhall, sent a collection of Pompone 

 Chrysanthemums, not for competition. It consisted of Alveoliflo- 

 rum, Justine Tessier, Junon, La Fiancee, Daphne, Fenella, Gra- 

 ziella. La Roussee, Mignonette, La Sapagon, Atropos, and Nelly. 



From Messrs. Jackson, of Kingston, came a cut specimen of 

 Cissus discolor, which was sent to show how unattractive the 

 flowers of this plant are compared with the beauty of its charmingly 

 variegated foliage. The former are almost inconspicuous, and 

 perfectly worthless in a decorative point of view. 



Mr. Lidgard, of Hammersmith, sent three heads of Manchester 

 Solid Red, and a similar number of Wall's Invincible White 

 Celery. 



III.— ARTICLES FROM THE SOCIETY'S GARDEN. 



Bilbergia Moreliana, a useful and rather handsome species of 

 this somewhat neglected genus ; a very fine variety of Cymbidium 

 giganteum ; several Pompone Chrysanthemums ; a collection of 

 Pears in which were Beurre gris d'Hiver Nouveau, a new sort 

 likely to prove a good winter kind, and Epine Dumas, also new 

 and promising. 



Roots of the following vegetables also came from the Society's 

 Garden, viz., Oca Rouge, Gesnera esculenta, a tender plant, 

 Oxalis Deppei, and Lathyrus tuberosus, or what are called Dutch 

 Mice. Since the failure of the Potato, roots of this kind have 

 been brought into notice, in order to discover what could be made 

 of them as food ; but with the exception of Oxalis Deppei, little 

 good has been done with them, and even the latter has of late 

 years fallen greatly into disuse. As to the Dutch Mice, they are 

 of about the same value as ground-nuts. 



