PROCEEDINGS. 



speak for themselves, it is scarcely possible to imagine 

 better grown fruit. 



Certijicate of Merit : To Mr. Catleugh, of Hans Place, Chel- 

 sea, for a new Heliotropium called Voltaireanvim, a deep 

 purple variety, so named because raised at Voltaire's resi- 

 dence at Ferney. It is handsomer than the common 

 Heliotrope. To Messrs. Veitch and Son, of Exeter, for a 

 plant sent from Peru by Mr. W. Lobb as a Nolana, but 

 which appeared to be a Petunia, or a plant nearly allied to 

 Petunia, with large, coarse, deeply-lobed leaves and delicate 

 pink flowers with a violet eye. To E. Lawford, Esq., of 

 Eden Park, Beckenham, for three baskets of Potatoes 

 having the decayed stems attached, each basket being the 

 produce of one grain of seed sown last spring. Two baskets 

 were the produce of two seeds obtained from Baden ; the 

 other was from Mussooree, in the East Indies. The tubers 

 raised from the latter were the smallest, the whole produce 

 of the one seed weighing 2 lbs, 1 oz. ; while the produce of 

 the two Baden seeds weighed respectively 4 lbs. 9 oz. and 

 3 lbs. 4 oz. of fine large potatoes, quite as large as could be 

 expected from sets planted in the ordinary routine of field 

 culture ! For the means taken to obtain so remarkable a 

 result, see the Proceedings of Nov. 2 (p. xix.). 



Miscellaneous Subjects of Exhibition. Plants of Achi- 

 menes from Mexico, and a little lilac-flowered Primula from 

 Nepal, from Messrs. Jackson, of Kingston ; a collection of 

 36 varieties of Pansies and two seedling fancy Dahlias from 

 Mr. Turner, of Chalvey ; and boxes of autumnal Roses from 

 Messrs, Paul and Son, of Cheshunt, of which the following 

 were a few of the best, viz. Perpetual : La Peine, Baronne 

 Prevost, Prince de Galles, Duchess of Sutherland, and Due 

 d'Aumale. Noisette : Ophirie. Tea : Safranot, Comte de 

 Paris, Adam, Mirabile, Pactolus, Goubault, and Niphetos. 

 Bourbon : Souchet, Dupetit Thouras, George Cuvier, Sou- 

 venir de la Malmaison,and Marianne. Of fruit, Mr. Hume, 

 of Bretton Hall, Wakefield, York, sent a Providence Pine 

 Apple weighing 7 lbs. 11 oz. ; Mr. Standen, gardener to 

 Mrs. Keates, Kennington, small and indifferently coloured 

 Black Hamburgh Grapes, from the open wall ; Mr. Elliott, 

 gardener to R. W. Gaussen, Esq., F.H.S., fair samples of 

 Wilmot's Black Hamburgh (?), ripened without the aid of 

 fire heat ; and good-looking bunches of Black Hamburgh, 

 grown under similar circumstances, were communicated by 

 Mr. Holmes, gardener to the Marquess of Winchester. Fair 

 specimens of Peaches, examples of what could be produced 

 on open walls in Derbyshire, were exhibited by Mr. Muir- 



