PROCEEDINGS AT MEETINGS OF THE 

 SOCIETY. 



September 7, 1847. (Regent Street.) 



Elections. Mrs. Newdigate, Woodlands, Blackheath ; Mrs. 

 Young de Lautour, 73, Portland Place, and Hexton House, 

 near Hitchin ; Benjamin Attvvood, Esq., Bridge Street, 

 Blackfriars ; Thomas John Bell, Esq., Audley Cottage, 

 Fulham; Thomas Boddington, Esq., St. Helen's Place and 

 Gunnersbury Lodge, Acton ; George Stanton, Esq., Pen- 

 y-Nant, Ruabon, Denbighshire ; and Richard Shuttleworth 

 Streatfield, Esq., The Rocks, Uckfield. 



Awards. Large Silver Medal : To Mr. Barnes, gardener to 

 the Right Hon. Lady Rolle, F.H.S., Bicton, Devonshire, 

 for two Pine Apples, a Montserrat and an Antigua Queen, 

 the former weighing 5 lbs., the latter 5 lbs. 5 ozs., being 

 part of a number of fruit which had been ripened in the open 

 air in the kitchen garden at Bicton. The Montserrat mea- 

 sured 10 inches in height and 16 inches in circumference, 

 and the Antigua Queen 9 inches in height and 17 inches in 

 circumference, both perfectly ripe and nicely -swelled fruit, 

 but the former a little deformed. The following table ex- 

 hibits the weights and dimensions of a few of the fruit which 

 Mr. Barnes has succeeded in ripening in the open air this 

 summer at Bicton : — 



Date. 



July 5 

 15 



27 



Aug. 1 



12 



15 



19 



Queen . . . . 



Do 



Do 



Three Queens . . 

 Queen . . . • 



Do 



Enville . . . . 

 Queen . . . . 



Do 



Montserrat . 

 Brown Sugar Loaf 

 Montserrat . 

 Queen .... 

 liussian Globe . 



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