PROCEEDINGS. XXV 11 



September 3, 1844. (Regent Street.) 



Elections. M. C. B. Cave, Esq., 11, Upper Belgrave Street, 

 and Stretton-en-le-Field, near Atherstone ; and W. Stirling-, 

 Esq., of Kier, near Dumblane, Stirlingshire, N.B. 



Awards. A large Silver Medal to Mr. Mills, gardener to 

 Baroness de Rothschild, for a Providence Pine-apple mea- 

 suring 13 inches in height, and 24^ round, and weighing 

 14j lbs. The number of pips in height was twelve. This 

 was the largest Pine ever produced before the Society ; and 

 excepting one lately cut from the same gardens, which, 

 it was stated, weighed 15^ lbs., it is probably the largest 

 ever raised in England. Independently of its size, it was 

 beautiful in form. It had been raised in a pit contrived by 

 Mr. Mills for growing Cucumbers in. 

 BanJ<sia7i Medals: To Mr. Corbin, gardener to T. Hepburn, 

 Esq., for a magnificent plant of Lilium lancifolium album, 

 having eight stems, each bearing from eight to ten expanded 

 blooms. To Mr. Parsons, gardener to A. George, Esq., 

 for five fine bunches of Muscat of Alexandria Grapes. 

 Certificates : To Mr. Don, gardener to F. G. Cox, Esq., of 

 Stockwell, for a fine specimen ofAchimenes pedunculata. 

 To Mr. Ivedding, gardener to Mrs. Marryat, of Wimble- 

 don, for a specimen of Guzmannia tricolor. To Mr. 

 W. P. Ayres, gardener to J. Cook, Esq., F.H.S., for a col- 

 lection of cut blooms of Verbenas. To Mr. Fish, gar- 

 dener to H. H. Oddie, Esq., of Coliiey House, Barnet, for a 

 Providence Pine-apple weighing 8 lbs. 7 ounces, and mea- 

 suring 8 inches in height, and 19 inches in circumference. 

 Tlie number of pips was nine. To Mr. Jones, gardener 

 to Sir Moore Disney, Bart., F.H.S., for specimens of Grosse 

 Mignonne Peaches. To S. Platter, a cottager at Aylsham, 

 for specimens of a seedling Apple ; being of last year's 

 growth, they were a little shrivelled, but were nevertheless 

 in good preservation ; they were stated to have been, until 

 within the last few weeks, quite firm and juicy ; they 

 looked like some sort of Russet, and had the useful pro- 

 perty of being preserved in good condition over a second 

 season. 



Novelties from the Society's Garden, ^chmea discolor, 

 with beautiful crimson bracts or scales, out of which grow 

 pretty violet blossoms. Cut specimens of lochroma tubu- 

 losunij a new Mexican shrub, producing fine terminal 

 clusters of deep porcelain-blue flowers. It was expected to 

 prove suflftciently hardy for planting out-of-doors during 



