PROCEEDINGS. XV 



Two ripe fruit had been cut on the 28th of February, 1848, 

 from the plant exhibited ; one of these weighed 4 lbs. 8 oz., 

 the other 4 lbs. 10 oz. The old stem was then cut down, 

 and the suckers which the plant had thrown out produced 

 the fruit shown ; the plant had not been shifted for a period 

 of two years. 

 Banksian Medals : To Mr. Davis, of Oak Hill, East Barnet, 

 for a dish of West's St. Peter's Grapes, not large either in 

 bunch or berry, but perfectly ripened and beautifully 

 coloured. To Mr. Tucker, gardener to J. Moorman, Esq., 

 of Clapham Road, for a collection of Pears, consisting of 

 Glout Morceau, Beurre d'Aremberg, Winter Nelis, Na- 

 poleon, Easter Beurre, Beurre Diel, and Ne Plus Meuris, 

 all in a most excellent state of preservation. The published 

 reports of tlie Society's meetings show that Mr. Moorman 

 has for years past sent a similar collection of fruit about the 

 same season, and always in the same condition — plump and 

 sound as when removed from the trees. His mode of 

 keeping his fruit, however, remains a mystery. 



Certificates of Merit : To IMr. Bevington, gardener to Mark 

 Philips, Esq., F.H.S., for two sorts of unknown Grapes, 

 called Black and White Barbarossa. They had been 

 received from the Continent along with other kinds, all of 

 which proved worthless except those exhibited. The Black 

 sort was large both in bunch and berry; it weighed 2 lbs. 

 9 oz. ; it was stated to be a good bearer, and to surpass 

 anything in the part of the country from which it came for 

 keeping on the vines without losing flavour or sinking in 

 the size of the berry. It, however, proved inferior in 

 flavour to the West's St. Peter's, to which Mr. Philips con- 

 siders it superior in keeping qualities. The White vai-iety 

 looked like a Muscat, but it had none of the Muscat 

 flavour; it weighed 14^ oz. To Mr. Glendinning, F.H.S., 

 Chiswick Nursery, for cut specimens of forcing Pelar- 

 goniums, exhibiting some improvement in point of colour on 

 the kinds usually employed for that purpose. Among them 

 was a scarlet, very bright, and stated to stand heat without 

 shedding its flowers. To C. Rankin, Esq., F.H.S., Dulwich, 

 for three handsomely swelled Citrons from a greenhouse. 



Miscellaneous Subjects of Exhibition. A plant of 

 Sericographis Ghiesbreghtiana, figured at p. 245, vol. iii. 

 part iii., from Messrs. Henderson, of Pine-apple Place. A 

 Cayenne Pine-apple weighing 4 lbs., the produce of a plant 

 twenty months from the Gill, from Mr. Wright, gardener 

 to Mrs. Rushout, F.H.S., Wanstead. A box of Ash-leaf 



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