proceedings. xi 



Books Presented. 



The FloricuUural Cabinet for May. Prom Mr. Jos. Harrison. 



Tlie Florist's Journal, No. 56. From the Editor. 



Tlie Botanical Register for May. From tlie Publishers. 



The Athen.f um for April. From the Editor. 



."Vrchives du Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, torn. 3, liv. 4. From the Museum. 



Tlie Ladies' Flower Garden of Ornamental Perennials, Nos. a" and 28. From Mrs. 



Loudon. 

 Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, held at Philadelphia, vol. 9, 



part I . From the Society. 



May 18, 1844, (Garden Exhibition.) 



The weather upon this occasion was very unfavourable, the 

 morning being ushered in by a frost of as much as 6" in some 

 localities, accompanied by a sharp north-east wind ; occasional 

 storms of rain prevailed throughout the day. Notwithstanding 

 the severity of the Aveather 4367 visitors entered the Garden, 

 exclusive of exhibitors. 



The Award was as follows :* Large Gold Medal : 1. To 

 Mr. Mylam, gardener to Sigismund Rucker, Esq., Jun., 

 F.H.S., for a collection of Exotic Orchidacese. 



Gold K?iightian Medals: 1. To Mr. Robertson, gardener to 

 Mrs. Lawrence, F.H.S., for a collection of thirty stove and 

 greenhouse plants. 2. To the same for a collection of 

 Exotic Orchidaceae. 3. To Mr. Brewin, gardener to R. 

 Gunter, Esq., F.H.S., for a miscellaneous collection of 

 Fruit. 



Gold Banksian Medals : 1. To Mr. Green, gardener to Sir 

 Edmund Antrobus, Bart., F.H.S., for a collection of fifteen 

 stove and greenhouse plants. 2. To Mr. W. Cock, of 

 Chiswick, for twelve varieties of Pelargonium, in pots of 



* During this season the following instructions were given to the Judges : 

 " In forming your opinion of the subjects submitted to you for examination, 

 you are requested to take into consideration whether they have been exhi- 

 bited previously or not. The object of this regulation is to give specimens 

 produced at the Society's Garden Meetings, for the first time, an advantage 

 over others previously exhibited, although of equal merit ; and to obstruct 

 the system of exhibiting very fine plants repeatedly, to the disadvantage of 

 others. The effect of this regulation should be — 1. That if two collections 

 should be nearly the same in point of merit otherwise, that in which no 

 previously exhibited specimen shall be found will be regarded as the better 

 of the two. 2. That in all cases of doubt, the person who had not exhibited 

 previously shall have the benefit of the doubt. 3. That when each of two 

 competitors shall have introduced previously exhibited plants into his col- 

 lection, that collection which contains the fewest of them shall be deemed the 

 superior if they are otherwise nearly alike. It is not, however, wished that 

 the previous exhibition of plants should depreciate their value so much as to 

 place a superior collection below one very decidedly inferior. The appli- 

 cation of this regulation is left to your judicious consideration." 



