xlvi PEOCEKDINGS. 



valuable in cold and unfavourable situations in which 

 tlie French and Belgian varieties would not succeed. 



The shoots of this, as well as those of the Eyevvood, 

 are very thorny when the trees are young ; but fewer 

 are produced as they get older, and fruit-spurs are then 

 formed in their place. 

 4. Werder's Early Heart Cherry, a black fruit, of German 

 origin, rich, and much earlier than the May Duke, 



Books Presented. 



The Seventeenth Annual Report of the Royal Horticultural Society of (yornwall. 

 From the Society. 



The Quarterly Journal of the tieological Society. No. XVII. From the Society. 



Transactions of the Royil Society of i';dinbur<^h. Vol. XVI., Part 4 ; and Proceed- 

 ings of tlie Royal Society of Edinburgh. Vol, II., Nos. 31 and 32. From the 

 Society. 



The Athenceum for January. From the Editor. 



On Climate in Connection with Husbandry, with reference to a work entitled Cours 

 d'Agriculture, par le Comte de Gasparin, by tlie Right Hon. the Earl of Lovelace. 

 From the Author. 



Special General Meeting. The Society then resolved 

 itself into a special general meeting, which had been pre- 

 viously summoned by post, according to the by-laws, for the 

 purpo.se of electing a new member of Council, in the room 

 of the Eai'l of Auckland, deceased. The chairman (the 

 Duke of Northumberland, Vice-President) announced that 

 the Council had recommended as a fit and proper successor 

 the Right Hon. Lord Ashburton ; this nomination having 

 been supported by Mr. Hutton and Dr. Daniel, the ballot 

 took place. At its close, his Grace named, as scrutineers, 

 P. Pole, Esq., C. Devon, Esq., and Mr. C. Loddiges, who 

 reported that the Right Hon. Lord Ashburton had been 

 elected unanimously, and that 18 Fellows had voted. 



March 6, 1849. (Regent Street.) 



Elections, Mr. George Paul, of Cheshunt ; and Mr. Charles 

 Turner, of Slough. 



Awards, Knightiun Medal : To Mr, Wilmot, F.H.S., for a dish 

 of Black Hamburgh Grapes, from his Vines grown in the 

 remarkable manner described in Proceedings, p. xvi. 



The Vice-Secretary having; afterwards personally examined the 

 place where these Vines gFCw, published the following ac- 

 count of the case in the ' Gardener's Chronicle,' 



" In July, 1846, Mr, Wilmot planted in the footpath, at 

 the back of some Pine pits, a number of young Black Ham- 



