Hi PllOCEEDlNGS. 



Pourpre, D. Pale blue : Grand Sultan, D ; Globe Ter- 

 restre, D ; Oscar, S ; Robinson, S ; Bloxburgh, D ; Par- 

 inenio, D ; King of the Netherlands, D ; Paartboots, D ; 

 Mignonette de Dryfliout, D ; Comtesse de St. Proust, D. 

 Cream : Groot Voorst, D. Yellow : Herman Sange, D. 



Certificates of Merit : To IMr. Turner, F.H.S., for an exhi- 

 bition of Heartsease, consisting of Thomson's Constellation, 

 Hooper's Mary Jane, Nasmyth's Mrs. M. Hamilton, 

 Hooper's Brutus, Bell's Lord John Russell and Duke of 

 Norfolk, Turner's Charmer and Commodore, Bell's Cli- 

 max, Turner's Miss Edwards, Bell's Aurora, Youell's Su- 

 preme, Turner's Surplice and Mrs. Beck, Oswold's Undine, 

 Hooper's Attila, Thomson's Duchcj^s of Rutland, Hooper's 

 Wonderful, Turner's Caroline, Bell's Duchess of Norfolk, 

 Backhouse's Dr. Wolff, Collison's Perseus, Hooper's Milo, 

 Turner's Optiuivis. To Mr. Toy, Oatlands Palace Gar- 

 dens, Weybridge, for a well swelled and beautifully co- 

 loured dish of Keens' Seedling Strawberry. 



Miscellaneous Subjects op Exhibition. Mr. Craggs, gar- 

 dener to Sir T. D. Acland, Bart., M.P., sent flowers raised 

 from the seed of the Highclere Rhododendron altaclerense. 

 These were inferior to that variety, and served to confirm 

 the fact that when hybrids do seed, the seedlings raised 

 from them are almost certain to return sooner or later to 

 the state of their parents. Mr. Henderson, of Wellington 

 Nursery, St. John's Wood, contributed a collection of Cine- 

 rarias, amoug wliich Cerito was the best. A tray of Ca- 

 mellia blooms, from plants growing in the open garden at 

 Abbotsbury in Dorsetshire, was exhibited by the Hon. W. 

 F. Strangways, who furnished the following memoranda 

 respecting them : — 



" The specimens exhibited are from a number of standard 

 bushes of Camellias growing intermixed with other shrubs 

 in the middle of the garden, totally unprotected by any 

 wall or other shelter, thougii partially shaded by taller 

 trees. They are of various sorts, taken without much se- 

 lection, and seem all to thrive equally well: they have 

 been planted some as long as ten, none less than three or 

 four years. They are but little pruned, and are left to 

 their natural habit, which, it is interesting to observe in 

 plants left to themselves, varies much in the different varie- 

 ties. Some grow into round bushes, some take a fastigiate 

 or aspiring shape, some spread widely near the ground, and 

 otliers have a loose, almost pendulous habit of growth. 



