X PEOCEEDINGS. 



Mai/ 7, 1844. (Regent Street.) 



Elections. The Earl of Leicester, Holkham, Norfolk ; 

 P. Greenall, Esq., M.P., York Villa, New Brighton, 

 Cheshire, and 45, Pall Mall ; and J. Shepherd, Esq., 

 Kensington -Square. 



Awards. Knightian Medals: 1. To Messrs. Loddiges, of 

 Hackney, for various Orchids, especially a remarkable 

 specimen of Dendrobium densiflorum, and a beautiful plant 

 of Cattleya Skinneri. 2. To Mr. J. Robertson, gardener 

 to Mrs. Lawrence, F.H.S., for a large Hovea Celsi, a dwarf 

 bushy specimen of Chorozema Dicksoni, Dendrobium ag- 

 gregatum, and Tetranema mexicanum. 

 Banksian Medals : 1. To Mr. Plant, gardener to J. H. 

 Schroder, Esq., for a fine plant of Aerides crispum. 2. To 



5. Rucker, Esq., of Wandsworth, for a fine specimen of 

 Anguloa Clowesii. 



Certificates : 1. To Mr. Carson, gardener to W. Farmer, Esq., 

 for a variety of Epidendrum macrochilum. 2. To Mr. W. 

 P. Ayres, gardener to J. Cook, Esq., of Brooklands, for a 

 plant of Pentas carnea. 3. To Messrs. Veitch and Son, of 

 Exeter, for a new hardy Oxalis, sent from Chili by their 

 collector Mr. Lobb. 4. To Mr. Errington, gardener to 

 Sir P. G. Egerton, Bart., for a series of flowers of seedling 

 Cacti, especially one named Regalis, resembling Conway's 

 Giant, and another named Longissima. 5. To Mr. Chap- 

 man, of Clapham, for a basket of Dutch Sweetwater Grapes, 

 some bunches of which weighed three-quarters of a pound. 



6. To Mr. Fish, gardener to H. H. Oddie, Esq., for a 

 Cantaloupe Melon, a seedling of his own, together with a 

 green-fleshed variety, concerning which Mr. Fish stated that 

 they had been grown in a three-light box, on a bed formed 

 of billet and rubbish wood, about two feet deep, with six 

 inches of long litter spread regularly over them. Above 

 this were placed eighteen inches of leaves and dung. The 

 soil was the top spit from a common, and was strong loam. 

 It was put in as rough as possible, and trodden firm. 

 The plants were watered twice witli the drainings of the 

 dunghill, and once with guano mixed with water, at the rate 

 of one ounce to a gallon of water. No other manure was 

 used. 



Novelties from the Society's Garden. Comarostaphylis 

 arbutoides, and Arctostaphylos nitida, two pretty half-hardy 

 Mexican shrubs, havingr some resemblance to an Arbutus. 



