XIV PROCEEDINGS. 



3. Braddick's Nonpareil, a great bearer, far exceeding the 

 Old Nonpareil in this respect, and approaching it in 

 flavour. 



4. Pearson's Plate : in a good season tliis is richly 

 coloured, and is one of the handsomest dessert-apples; 

 excellent in quality. 



5. Cockle Pippin, an abundant bearer, and a good late 

 dessert-fruit. 



6. Screveton Golden Pippin : the fruit of this is more 

 russeted than that of the Old Golden Pippin, to 

 which, in quality, it is similar. Those who esteem 

 the Old Golden Pippin — it may be asked, who does 

 not ? — and have an opport\inity of cultivating apples, 

 should substitute the Screveton Golden Pippin, because 

 the tree is more healthy and a better bearer than the 

 old variety. 



Books Presented. 



Flora Batava. Nos. CLIV. and CLV. From His Majesty the King of Holland. 

 The Athenaeum for November. From the Editor. 



The Quarterly .Tournal of the Geological Society. No. XVI. From the Society. 

 The Florist. ■ Vol. I. From Mr. Beck. 



January 16, 1849. (Regent Street.) 



The new by-laws, which had been read at two previous meet- 

 ings, and suspended in the meeting- room, were again read. 

 The meeting then proceeded to ballot for the repeal of the old 

 by-laws. The Vice-President, in the chair, announced the 

 repeal to be carried unanimously. A ballot then took place 

 for the new by-laws, which were carried unanimously. The 

 Vice-President then declared tliem to be pa.ssed according to 

 the provisions of tlie Charter, and to be the future laws of the 

 Society. 



Elections. George Beauchamp Cole, Esq., Heatham Lodge, 

 Twickenham ; and George Thomas Davy, Esq., Sussex 

 Square, Hyde Park. 



Awards. Kniglit'mn 3Iedal — To Mr= Davies, gardener to 

 Lord Bridport, for a plant in a pot of Black Jamaica Pine- 

 apple, bearing three suckers, each ripening off a fruit wliich 

 could not liave weiglied less than between 3 and 4 lbs. It 

 was stated that Mr. Davies grows liis pines on the Hamil- 

 tonian system ; but that instead of planting them out in tlie 

 bed of the pine pit, as Mr. Hamilton mostly does, lie culti- 

 vates them in pots, wliich obviates the principal objection 

 to the system, that of having the fruit all ripe at one time. 



