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to E. Goodlieart, Esq., Langley Park, Beckenham, for the 

 fourth best-named collection of Plants (two errors in filleen). 

 7. To Mr. Groom, gardener to H. Bentley, Esq., Leeds, 

 for Royal George Peaches. 8. To Mr. Evans, gardener to 

 C. N. Newdigate, Esq., of Arbury Hall, Warwickshire, for 

 Brinion Nectarines. 9. To Mr. Braid, gardener to H. 

 Perkins, Esq., F.H.S , for Figs. 10. To Mr. Rust, gar- 

 dener to J. MacLaurin, Esq., F.H.S. , for Alice Maude 

 Strawberries. 11. To Mr. Slowe, gardener to W. R. 

 Baker, Esq., F.H.S., for Keen's Seedling Strawberries. 

 12. To Mr. Snow, gardener to Earl de Grey, F.H.S., for 

 the third best-flavoured Melon — " Snow's Hybrid Green- 

 fleshed." 



July 4, 1848. (Regent Street.) 



Elections. Lord Ashburton, Bath House, Piccadilly ; T. 

 Heathcote, Esq., 10, Holies-street, Cavendish-square ; and 

 J. Eisenberg, Esq., 14, Cockspur-street, Pall Mall. 



Awards. Banksian Medals: To Mr. Glendinning, of the 

 Chiswick Nursery, for a nice specimen of the Brazilian 

 Allamanda Schottii. To Mr. Henderson, of Wellington 

 Nursery, St. John's Wood, for a collection of Cape and 

 fancy Pelargoniums, the most beautiful of the Cape species 

 being ardens, bipinnatifidum, and flexuosum. To Mr. 

 Chapman, Gardener to J. B. Glegg, Esq., F.H.S., for a 

 Providence Pine-apple, weighing 9 lbs. 13 J oz. To Mr. 

 Burton, Gardener to J. Strutt, Esq., for a well-formed and 

 finely-swelled Enville Pine, weighing 6 lbs. ; it was stated 

 to be the production of a sucker which had been left on an 

 old stool in a pot. To Messrs. Loddiges, for a collection 

 of Orchids, but more especially for Aerides affine, Epiden- 

 drum vitellinum majus, Brassia brachiata, Oncidium leuco- 

 chilum, and Stanhopea Martiana. 

 Certificates of 3Ierit : To Messrs. Veitch, for Lisianthus fri- 

 gidus, a yellow-flowered Mexican species of some promise. 

 To Mr. Moore, Gardener to the Earl of Auckland, F.PLS., 

 for a well-flowered specimen of a sweet-scented Amaryllis, 

 named Natalensis, which, if not the same, was stated to 

 much resemble A. Forbesii, a species introduced by the 

 Horticultural Society some twenty years ago. The follow- 

 ins: is Mr. Moore's statement concerning? it : — " I received 

 two bulbs of the above in July, 1846, both being then per- 

 fectly sound, and of equal size. The one now exhibited I 

 kept dry and cold until the following spring ; the other was 

 potted immediately ; it made an effort to grow at the com- 



