Ivi PROCEEDINGS. 



To Mr. Busby, Gardener to J. Crawley, Esq., F.H.S., for 

 Oncidium papilio. 



May 23rd, 1854. (Regent Street.) 



I.— ELECTIONS. 



J. T. Brooks, Esq., Ampthill, Beds ; E. Akroyd, Esq., Denton 

 Park, near Otley ; J. Blyth, Esq., 24, Hyde Park Gardens ; 

 J. Vickers, Esq., Woodlands, Tooting ; Mr. Alderman Muggeridge, 

 St. Andrew's Hill, Doctors' Commons. 



II.— AWARDS. 

 Knightian Medal : — 



To Mr. Lewis Solomon, of Covent Garden, for a collection of 

 foreign Vegetables, consisting of a bundle of white Aspara- 

 gus ; seventy-five heads of which weighed 9 lbs. 13 oz.; very 

 fine Kidney Potatoes ; Green Peas and French Beans ; four 

 beautiful large Cauliflowers ; Globe x\rtichokes ; Early Horn 

 Carrots ; and a punnet of large and highly coloured Tomatoes. 



To Mr. Smith, Gardener to Mrs. Pteay, of Little Blake Hall, 

 Wanstead, Essex, for a collection of Vegetables of English 

 growth. 



Banksian Medal : — 



To Mr. Hill, Gardener to R. Sneyd, Esq., Keel Hall, Stafford- 

 shire, for half a dozen Royal George Peaches, and as many 

 Elruge Nectarines. 



Certificate of Merit : — 



To Messrs. Ivory & Son, of Dorking, for an exhibition of 

 Azaleas. Three of them — Beauty of Reigate, Barclayana, 

 and Iveryana were white, with some of the flowers stained 

 and spotted with pink. The others were Gem, a finely 

 shaped glowing rosy kind, and Novelty, a salmon-coloured 

 sort. 



To the same, for a hybrid Rhododendron, called Ponticum 

 coccineum. It had the deep crimson flowers of the red 

 Tree Rhododendron, which was evidently one of its parents, 



