PROCEEDINGS. 



Bedfordshire, for a collection of Pears, consisting of well-kept 

 specimens of Chaumoutel, Easter Beurre, Beurre Rauce, 

 Glout Morceau, Old Colmar, and Ne Plus Meuris. 



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

 of Foreign Vegetables, consisting of good-looking white 

 Asparagus, and green " Sprew," French Beans, excellent 

 early Horn Carrots, Globe Artichokes, large White Broccoli, 

 and young Spinach. 



To the same for the following kinds of Salad Vegetables of 

 foreign growth, viz., Cos and Cabbage Lettuces, Batavian 

 and Curled Endive, Radishes, Taragon, and Chervil. 



Certificate of Merit : — 



To Mr. Atkins, of Painswick, Gloucestershire, for two large 

 masses of a very dwarf, pale-coloured hybrid Cyclamen, 

 called C. Atkinsi. " It was," says Mr. Atkins, '* raised from 

 C. coum impregnated with C. persicum ; I find it to be 

 equally hardy with C. coum and vernum. The specimens 

 sent have been bloomed in a cold frame, and during the 

 severe frosts of January were completely frozen hard, but 

 immediately milder weather succeeded they came on rapidly 

 into bloom, and even before either C. coum or vernum in 

 the same frame ; from seed, I find full two-thirds come 

 exactly like the parent (C. Atkinsi), while the remainder 

 varies from white and black to the usual colour of coum ; 

 some of the seedlings sown in August, 1859, are now in 

 bloom, and I need not say that the plant is a most profuse 

 flowerer." 



To Mr. Butcher, of Stratford-on-Avon, for three bunches of 

 Black Barbarossa Grapes, so plump and fresh as to be easily 

 mistaken for new fruit. It was stated that one point of the 

 greatest importance connected with this variety is that it will 

 hang longer in a ripe state without shrivelling, than any 

 other black Grape at present in cultivation. West's 

 St. Peter's not excepted. 



III.— MISCELLANEOUS SUBJECTS OF EXHIBITION. 



Of Pears, J. Abell, Esq., sent from Limerick examples of 

 Easter Beurre, Beurre Ranee, Spring Beurre, Fortune Parmentier, 

 both from Pear and Quince stocks ; Susette de Bavay, Rouse 



