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April 17, 1849. (Regent Street.) 



Elections. Col. Hall, M.P. ; H. Tuke, Esq., Manor 

 House, Chiswick ; and Mr. B. T. B. Gibbs, Half Moon 

 Street, Piccadilly. 



Awards. Banksian Medals : To Mr. Jones, gardener to 

 E. Hutchings, Esq., Dowlais House, Glamorganshire, for 

 four Queen Pine Apples, nicely swelled for the season. 

 Tiiey weighed respectively 3 lbs, 10 oz., 3 lbs. 8 oz., and 

 two 3 lbs. 7 oz. To Mr. Davis, of Oak Hill, East Barnet, 

 for a handsomely grown Providence Pine, weigliing 7 lbs. 



Certificates of Merit: To Mr. Drummond, gardener to C. H. 

 Leigh, Esq., Pontypool Park, for a good specimen of tlie 

 smooth-leaved variety of Cayenne Pine Apple, weigliing 

 4 lbs. 4 oz. To Mr. Myatt, of Deptford, for a remarkably 

 fine specimen of Cyclamen persicum, forming a mass of 

 flowers 18 inches across, and this from a single root in a 

 12-inch pot. To Mr. Pond, of Bath, for eleven Seedling 

 Cinerarias. Among these the most striking were Bride, 

 pale lilac, with a light centre; and Bridesmaid, a large 

 flower, white, tipped with purplish lilac. 



Miscellaneous Subjects of Exhibition. Mr. Smith, gar- 

 dener to G. Anderson, Esq., of Regent's Park, sent Ron- 

 deletia thyrsoidea, a plant new to gardens, which liad been 

 obtained by sowing the soil whicli was found adhering to 

 the roots of some plants imported from Guatemala Mr. 

 Henderson, of Wellington Nursery, St. John's Wood, 

 showed a group of Seedling Cinerarias, the best of which 

 were Mdlle. Rosati, white with a dark disc, and edged with 

 bluish lilac, a fine flower, but rather small ; Mdlle. Perodi, 

 in the way of Kendall's Beauty of Newington ; Flora 

 M'lvor, intense crimson purple ; Nymph, white with a 

 purple centre ; Fann^y Ellsler, white ; and Bessy, a deep 

 velvety purple, which contrasted well with the yellow pollen 

 masses of the disc. Mr. Salter, Versailles Nursery, Ham- 

 mersmith, sent a seedling Cineraria named Incomparable. 

 Several cut specimens of crimson and delicate pink Rho- 

 dodendrons, together with a bunch of the yellow Chinese 

 Azalea, were exhibited by Mr. Cox, gardener to W. Wells, 

 Esq., of Redleaf. Mr. Frost, of Dropmore, sent flowers of 

 two seedling Azaleas, named Frostii and Andersonii ; and 

 along with them a cut specimen of the red-flowered H^man- 

 thus multiflorus, a poisonous plant from the tropical parts 

 of Africa. Mr. Davis, of Oak Hill, showed Sweetwater 



