Ixxvi PROCEEDINGS. 



Certificates of Merit : To Mr. Ogle, Gardener to the Earl of 

 Abergavenny, Bridge Castle, Tunbridge Wells, for a fruit 

 of the Dampsha Melon, weighing 4 lbs. 11 oz. This is 

 a netted, oval, green-flesiied AVinter Melon, well flavoured, 

 and remarkable for its keeping properties after it is cut. 

 Some account of it appeared in the Transactions of the 

 Society, at p, 211, Vol. IV. To Mr. Chapman, Gar- 

 dener to J. B. Glegg, Esq., F.H.S., for a Black Jamaica 

 Pine-apple, exhibited under the name of " Montserrat," 

 weighing 4 lbs. 7 oz. To Mr. Ogle, for a handsomely 

 swelled Ripley Queen Pine, weighing 4 lbs. 8^ oz. To 

 Mr. Slowe, Gardener to R. W. Baker, Esq., F.H.S., for 

 two bunches of Grapes, weighing respectively 3 lbs. 12 oz. 

 and 4 lbs., but ill coloured and unequally swelled ; they 

 were the produce of Vines planted in 1847. To Mr. 

 Turner, F.H.S., of the Royal Nursery, Slough, for 

 twenty- four varieties of Fancy Dahlias, whose names are 

 as follows : — M. Chereau, Vicomte de Ressequier, Quillet 

 Parfait, Conspicua, Belle de Nogent, Picotee, flerminia, 

 Miss Jane, M. Aifre, Striata perfecta, Keepsake, Comte de 

 Flandres, De Bureau, General Cavaignac, Empereur de 

 Maroc, Jenny Lind, Nonsuch, Sunbeam, Madame Eberth, 

 Rainbow, Miss Stevens, Roi de Points, Picotee, and Mrs. 

 Labouchere. 



Miscellaneous Subjects of Exhibition. From Messrs. 

 Henderson, of Pine-apple Place, the little-known white- 

 flowered Ipomaea pandurata, a North American species, 

 almost, if not quite hardy ; and a tall Acacia, called oleae- 

 folia elegans. From Messrs. Veitch, two specimens of their 

 new Gesnera picta, a luxuriant growing species with orange 

 scarlet blossoms, not particularly striking. Also a seedling 

 Heath raised by Mr. Story, with pale green flowers tinged 

 with pink. From Mr. Leach, gardener to S. Rucker, Esq., 

 ^schynanthus Lobbianus ; Hoya campanulata, a free flow- 

 ering species, and fragrant at night ; and Erica infundibuli- 

 formis and Shannoni. From Messrs. Fairbairn, of Clapham, 

 large and well-managed plants of Erica retorta major, mu- 

 tabilis, Vernonii superba, and cut specimens of their large- 

 flowered variety of E. mammosa. From Mr. Jones, gardener 

 to Sir J. J. Guest, Bart., F.H.S., for four Ripley Queen 

 Pine-apples, all handsomely swelled, and weighing respec- 

 tively 4 lbs. 3oz., 4 lbs. 12ioz., 4 lbs. 13 oz., and 5 lbs. 2^ 

 oz. No medal was awarded to these, Mr. Jones having 

 been recently rewarded for fruit of the same kind of ex- 

 cellence. From Mr. Willcox, gardener to the Earl • of 



