PROCEEDINGS. IX 



Certificates of Merit : To Mr. Jones, gardener to E. J. Hutcliins, 

 Esq., of Dovvlais House, Glamorganshire, for a Queen 

 Pine-apple, weighing 5 lbs. 2 oz. To Mr. Bray, gardener 

 to E. Lousada, Esq., Peak House, Sidmouth, Devon, for a 

 Queen Pine of similar weight. To Mr. Davis, of Oak 

 Hill, East Barnet, also for a Queen Pine, weighing 5 lbs. 

 To the same, for a basket of well-ripened Muscat of Alex- 

 andria Grapes. 



Miscellaneous Subjects of Exhibition. iEschynanthus 

 speciosus, a Java species, the most brilliant of the genus, 

 from Messrs. Veitch ; a sweet-scented Burlingtonia, perhaps 

 Cumanensis, and vSolenidium racemosum, a useful though 

 not handsome Orchid, from Mr. Beck, of Isleworth ; Laelia 

 furfuracea and two other Orchids, from Mrs. Lawrence, of 

 Ealing Park; a Queen Pine-apple, weighing 41bs. 8oz., 

 from Mr. Jones, gardener to E. J. Hutchins, Esq. ; three 

 fruit of the same variety of Pine-apple, weighing 3 lbs. 13 oz., 

 4 lbs. 7 oz., and 4 lbs. 12 oz., from Mr. Davis, of Oak Hill; 

 a Providence Pine, weighing 6 lbs. 15 oz., from Mr. Bray, 

 gardener to E. Lousada, Esq. ; specimens of Brussels 

 Sprouts, from Mr. Appleby, market-gardener. Burton - 

 upon-Trent ; and a large ripe Vegetable- Marrow, from 

 Mr. Cuthill, of Camberwell. 



Novelties from the Society's Garden. Epidendum cerar- 

 tistes, and Selago distans — the latter a very pretty hardy 

 greenhouse autumn-flowering Cape shrub, which no .small 

 collection should be without. The latter, although very 

 soft-wooded, in full growth, and covered with its delicate 

 blossoms, had been exposed to the temperature of 29° in the 

 large conservatory without sustaining the .smallest injury. 



The fruit from tlie Garden consisted of some handsome 

 Beurre Diel Pears from a wall, and of the Mere de Menage 

 Apple, a kitchen fruit which attains in rich soils as much 

 as 14 inches in circumference. It is an excellent keeping 

 sort, and, the tree being a great bearer, it deserves exten- 

 sive cultivation ; also Claygate Pearmain, a rich dessert 

 Apple ; Traveller, a tender-fleshed variety, which, like the 

 preceding, has a Ribston Pippin flavour; Syke House 

 Eusset ; Coe's Golden Drop, a small brisk, rich, dessert 

 variety, worthy of being grown where quality and not 

 quantity is the object ; Court of Wick, one of the best 

 dessert Apples; and Hul:>bard's Pearmain, a capital dessert 

 variety, which, this season, is thickly russeted ; but which, 

 in fine summers, comes almost quite smooths 



