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anderPark, Esq., Merton Grove, Surrey, for Alona ccelestis, 

 a new shrubby Nolanad, with large sky-blue flowers. 



Banksian Medals: 1. To Mr. Frazer, gardener to E. D. 

 Davenport, Esq., F.H.S., for a handsome Providence Pine, 

 weighing 6 lbs. 2 oz. ; 2. To Mr. Hendry, gardener to the 

 Rev. W. Antrobus, for a Hoosainee Melon, weighing 

 12 lbs. 3oz. 



Certificates : To Mr. Jones, gardener to Sir Moore Disney, 

 Bart., F.H.S., for a dish of Black Tartarian Cherries. 2. To 

 Mr. S. Rylance, gardener to J. B. Glegg, Esq., F.H.S., for 

 a Providence Pine Apple, weighing 4 lbs. 8 oz. 



Novelties from the Society's Garden. A plant of Lind- 

 leya mespiloides, an evergreen shrub, with large white fra- 

 grant flowers, from Mexico. It was reported not to be hardy 

 enough to bear London winters. 

 The result of a trial of charcoal against bone-dust, as applied 

 to Fuchsias, was produced in the form of two plants of 

 Fuchsia Chevalieri : they were struck from cuttings in one 

 pot, and were potted off on the 15th of February. A 

 thumb-pot full of bone-dust was mixed with the soil in which 

 one was potted ; the other received the same quantity of 

 charcoal ; each was put in a 5-inch pot. For a few Aveeks 

 the only difference was, that the one in bone-dust had leaves 

 of a much darker colour than the other. Both were re- 

 potted on April 26th, into 9-inch pots, a 3-inch pot of bone- 

 dust being then given to the one, and of charcoal to the 

 other, in the same way as before ; both plants had grown so 

 much alike, that it was hardly possible to say which was 

 best ; and thus it appeared, that, good as bone-dust is, it 

 is equalled by charcoal in the treatment of Fuchsias for 

 specimen plants. 



Books Presented. 



Flora Batava, No. 132. From His Majesty the King of Holland. 



The Ladies' Flower Garden of Ornamental Perennials, No. 30. From Mrs. Loudon. 



Tlie Botanical Register for July. From tlie Publishers. 



Proceedings of the Geological Society, No. 97. From the Society. 



Transactions of the Agricultural Society of Vienna, part 1, vol. 1, N.S. From the 



Society. 

 Catalogue of the Trees, Shrubs, and Plants in the Royal Botanic Garden, Naples. 

 Appendix 5 to the Flora Neapolitana, &c. 

 Nuove Ricerche su laCauliniaOceanica. From Signor M. Tenore, F.M.H.S. 



July 13, 1844, (Garden Exhibition.) 



The number of visitors at this meeting, exclusive of exhibitors, 

 amounted to 4278. The day was inauspicious, the rain begin- 

 ning to fall just as the company began to enter the gardens, and 

 continuing M'ith very little intermission during the afternoon. 



