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To C. B. Warner, Esq., F. H. S., for a high-coloured, slender 

 variety of Dendrobium transparens. 



To Mr. Brown, gardener to F. Parnell, Esq., of Waltham 

 Abbey, for three pots of Keen's Seedling Strawberry. 



To Mr. Higgs, Gardener to Mrs. Barchard, for an exhibition of 

 Keen's Seedling Strawberry, not in pots. 



IV.— MISCELLANEOUS SUBJECTS OF EXHIBITION. 



Mr. Gaines furnished a finely-flowered specimen of Azalea 

 " Mont Blanc." 



Messrs. Veitch sent a cut specimen of Rhododendron with a 

 compact head of white flowers richly spotted with brown. It was 

 named R. picturatum superbum, and appeared to be a hybrid 

 from R. maximum crossed with arboreum. 



From Messrs. Chandler, of Vauxhall, came Camellia formosa, 

 a kind resembling imbricata, but stated to have been a seedling 

 from Waratah. 



A block of Larch, from the Right Hon. T. F. Kennedy's 

 estate, near Maybole, in Ayrshire, was exhibited. It was a section 

 of a tree about two feet in diameter, and beside it was placed a 

 specimen of American Larch, or Hackmatack. The latter was 

 produced to show its difference from European Larch, and its 

 similarity to Deodar. 



Specimens of the timber of the two English kinds of Oak 

 (Quercus pedunculata and Q. sessiliflora) and of Spanish Chestnut, 

 were furnished by the Vice- Secretary, in order to exhibit the 

 difference that exists between the woods of the pedunculate and 

 sessile-flowered kinds and Chestnut, for which the timber of the 

 last-named Oak, when found in old buildings, has often been 

 mistaken. It was, thus, proved by specimens from West- 

 minster Abbey, that the timber in the roof of that building is not 

 Chestnut, as is still by many believed, but sessile-flowered Oal\, 

 which, although softer, more pliable, and easily worked, was stated 

 to be in most respects quite equal to the common pedunculate 

 kind. 



v.— ARTICLES FROM THE SOCIETY'S GARDEN. 



Deutzia gracilis, Prunus sinensis, Dielytra spectabilis and other 

 plants, together with the following salad vegetables, viz., Laitue 



