PEOCEE DINGS AT MEETINGS OF THE 

 SOCIETY. 



September 5, 1848. (Regent Street.) 



Elections. Lord Rokeby, ITazlewood, Watford ; J. G. Lye, 

 Esq., Holly Lodge, Turnham Green; J. Vere, I^sq., 

 United University Club; J. S. Bedford, Esq., Pendree, 

 Penzance, Coiiiwall. 



Awards. Ktiightian Medals: To Mr. Mylam, gardener to 

 S. Rucker, Esq., F.H.S., for a well-flowered plant of 

 Plialaanopsis grandiflora. To Mr. Groom, F.Ii.S., for 

 specimens of Lilium lancifolium album and speciosum from 

 his fine collection at Clapham. 



Banksian Medals: To C. Webb, Esq., F.ILS., for a plant of 

 the variety of Stanhopea graveolens called venusta. To 

 Mr. Ivison, gardener to the Duchess Dowager of Northum- 

 berland, F.H.S., ibr ripe fruit of the Allspice (Myrtus 

 pimenta) and two ripe Nutmegs (Myristica moscliata) ; tlie 

 latter had both split and showed tlie beautiful red interior — 

 one, the smaller, into two halves, the other into four valves 

 or quarters, a circumstance unusual m ith this fruit, which 

 seldom divides itself more than once. 



Certificates of Blerit: To Mr. Bunney, of Stratford, for 

 Dendrobium forniosum. To Messrs. liollisson, of Tooting, 

 for the brilliant red-blossomed Cape Heath called Cerin- 

 thoides coronata. To Messrs. Garaway, Mayes, and Co., 

 of Bristol, for a variety of Miltonia spectabilis from the 

 Organ Mountains, in wdiich the light petals of the species 

 were exclianged for purple ones, rendering the blossom 

 self-coloured. To Mr. Green, gardener to Sir E. Antrobus, 

 Bart., F.H.S., for a finely- blossomed specimen of Dipladenia 

 crassiiioda. To Mr. Wilniot, F.H.S., for a well-grown 

 fruit of the Prickly-leaved variety of Cayenne Pine-apple, 

 weighing 5 lbs. 4 oz. To Mr. Bray, gardener to E. 

 Lousada, Esq., Peak House, Sidmouth, Devon, for a Black 

 Antigua Pine, weigliing 5 lbs. 12oz. To Mr. Middleton, 

 gardener to the Hon. and Eev. J. Norton, of Chertsey, for 

 a bunch of Black Hamburgh Grapes weighing 2 lbs. 1 oz. 



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