PROCEEDINGS. XXV 



the common tube ; and, moreover, with this tube, a large 

 pot can be employed for watering plants of all sizes." 



Novelties from the Society's Garden. . Wiiitfieldia late- 

 ritia, a stove Acanthad, from the interior of Sierra Leone. 

 It forms a low spreading evergreen shrub, whose branches 

 terminate in racemes of flowers, of which the calyx, corolla, 

 and bracts are of a dull brick colour. They want brilliancy, 

 however, to render the plant attractive. 



Books Presented. 



Journal of tlie Royal Agricultural Society of England. Vol. VIII., Part 2. From the 



Society. 

 The Sixteenth Annual Report of the Royal Horticultural Society of Cornwall. From 



the Society. 

 L'Orto liotanico di Padova, nell' anno 1842, descritto dal Professore Roberto di 



Visianl. From the Author. 

 Dei Vantaggi che I'AgricoUura puo ricavare dallo studio dell' Entomologia, Memoria 



da Carlo Passerini. From the Author. 

 Mr. Bohn's Catalogue of Book?. From Mr. Bohn. 

 An Experimental Inquiry into the cause of the Ascent and Descent of the Sap by 



G. Rainey, M.R.C.S.E. From Mr. Pamplin, the Publisher. 

 Flora Batava, Nos. 148 and 149. From His Majesty the King of Holland. 

 The Athenoeum for the months of November and December. From the Editor. 

 Del Metodo e delle Avvertenze che si usano nell Orto Botanico di Padova, per la 



Cultura, Fecondazione, e Fruttificazione della Vaniglia, Memoria del Professore 



Roberto di Visiani. From tlie Author. 



February 15, 1848. (Regent Street.) 



Elections. John Thompson, Esq., Holme Island, near Milne- 

 thorpe ; and Mr. James Gray, Dan vers Street, Chelsea. 



Awards. Knightian Medal: To Mr. Mylam, gardener to 

 Sigismond Ruclcer, Esq., F.H.S., for Orchids ; more espe- 

 cially a remarkably well-flowered specimen of Ccelogyne 

 flaccida. 



Miscellaneous Subjects of Exhibition, Seedling Cine- 

 rarias from Mr. Ivery of Peckham, and blooms and plants 

 of Pelargoniums, &c., from Mr. Kendall's Polmaise-house 

 at Stoke Newington, The latter were exhibited as evidence 

 in favour of this system of heating, in consequence of an 

 opinion having been expressed, that " if the Pelargonium 

 could be successfully bloomed in a house so heated, the sys- 

 tem Avould be worthy of notice." In reference to this point 

 Mr. Kendall remarked — " I have now the pleasure of sub- 

 mitting to the inspection of the meeting some Pelargoniums 

 so grown and so bloomed, with a degree of success beyond 

 my expectation ; for every gardener is aware how difficult 

 it is to bloom the Pelargonium during the winter months. 

 In the first place I would direct attention to some flowers 

 of a Scarlet Pelargonium, from which I have been cutting, 

 through the xohole of the tointer, upon an average, six dozen 



