XXXIV PROCKEDINGS. 



March 4, 1845. (Regent Street.) 



Elections. Capt. S. J. Widdrington, R.N., Newton Hall, 

 near Darlington ; R. Harvey, Esq., St. Day, Truro ; J. Hus- 

 kisson, Esq., Colonnade House, Holloway ; A. Warde, Esq., 

 Mount Hall, Holloway ; S. Hancock, Esq., Kilburn ; and 

 Mr.W. J. Epps, Bower Nursery, Maidstone, Kent. 



Awards. A Knightian Medal to Mr. J. Robertson, gardener 

 to Mrs. Lawrence, for an immense plant of Dendrobiuni 

 nobile, and a specimen of Heliconia braziliensis, remark- 

 able for its bright-red sheathing bracts and pure white 

 flowers. 



A Banksian Medal to Mr. Insleay, gardener to G. Barker, 

 Esq., for a fine plant of the rare Chysis bractescens, on 

 which were 9 fully expanded blossoms. 



A Certificate to Mr. Mills, of Gunner.sbury Park, for a Cu- 

 cumber called Browston hybrid, measuring upwards of 20 

 inches in length, and having the bloom still on tlie end. It 

 had been grown in the pit of Mr. Mills's contrivance, heated 

 by fermenting material. 



Novelties from the Society's Garden. Hovea pungens, 

 a fine Swan River species, with beautiful violet blossoms ; 

 and Mussaenda frondosa, a shrub sent from Hong Kong by 

 Mr. Fortune. The small tubular flowers are yellow, and an 

 agreeable set-off by large greenish-veined white bracts into 

 which one of the five small bristle-like sepals is transformed. 

 The plant, though not new to gardens, had for some years 

 been seldom seen in collections. 



Books Presented. 



Le Bon .lardinier for 1845. From M. Vilmorin. 



The Botanical Register for March. From the Publishers. 



The Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, Vol. 5, Part 'i. From the 



Society. 

 Extracts, translated from the Natural History of Orange Trees. By A. Risso. From 



Colonel Reid, Governor of Bermuda. (8vo. Bermuda, 1844.) 

 The Athenaeum for February. From the Editor. 

 The Floricultural Cabinet for February and March. From the Editor. 



March 18, 1845. (Regent Street.) 

 Elections. Miss Sharpe, Chiswick Mall ; R. Gosling, Esq., 

 5, Portland Place, and Botley's Park, Chertsey ; W. S. 

 Grey, Esq., No. 1, the Cloisters, Middle Temple, and 

 Norton, Stockton-upon-Tees, Durham ; and R. A. F. Kings- 

 cote, Esq., of Kingscote, Gloucestershire, and White's 

 Club, St. James's Street, London. 



Awards. Knightian Medals : To Mr. J. Robertson, gardener 

 to Mrs. Lawrence, for various plants, especially Phaius 



