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12. To Messrs. Veitch and Co., for Tropaeolum Lobbii. 13. 

 To the same, for a species of Siphocampylus. 14. To Mr. 

 Green, for Thunbergia chrysops. 15. To Mr. J. Robert- 

 son, gardener to Mrs. Lawrence, F.H.S., for the same. 



16. To Mr. Pawley, for the fourth best-named collection. 



17. To Mr. May, for the fifth best-named collection. 18. 

 To Richard Brook, Esq., F.H.S., for Apples. 19. To 

 Mr. Mc Ewen, gardener to Colonel Wyndham, for Lemons. 

 20. To the same, for Melons. 



June 3, 1845. (Regent Street.) 

 Elections. The Marquess of Breadalbane, 21, Park Lane and 

 Taymouth Castle, Perthshire ; C. C. Cook, Esq., of the 

 New Finchley Road, St. John's Wood ; F. G. Cox, Esq., 

 of Stockwell ; F. Yates, Esq., Streatham, Surrey ; "W. 

 "Wood, Esq., at Messrs. Childs' Banking House; and J. 

 Ruskin, M.A., of Christ Church, Oxford, and Denmark 

 Hill, near London. 



Awards. A Banksian Medal to Sir T. D. Acland, Bart., 

 for a bundle of Asparagus, which weighed 11 lbs. 13 oz. 

 The heads were from 9 to 10 inches in length, thicker than 

 the thumb, and, unlike the samples usually found in the 

 London markets, they were eatable nearly all the way 

 down. 



Certificates : To Messrs. Henderson, of Pine Apple Place, 

 for a handsome white variety of Hindsia violacea. To 

 Messrs. Veitch and Son, of Exeter, for Calceolaria flori- 

 bunda, a Peruvian species with small yellow flowers. To 

 Mr. Piper, gardener to A. Ward, Esq., for an exceedingly 

 well-grown plant of the Calceolaria (Lady Constable). 



Novelties from the Society's Garden. Glossocomia ovata, 

 a hardy Indian herbaceous plant, producing pretty pale- 

 coloured bell-shaped flowers which are elevated on long 

 stalks above the foliage. Along with these was the Persian 

 annual Cochlearia acaulis, a species of stemless Scurvy- 

 grass, which forms little green patches closely studded with 

 small pale starlike flowers. The Vice-Secretary also pro- 

 duced a Hyacinth bulb, covered with a brood of adventi- 

 tious buds in the form of bulbs of various ages, the produc- 

 tion of which had been obtained artificially. The bulb in 

 question had begun to rot away at its base, without pro- 

 ducing leaves or flowers, as frequently occurs with this 

 plant. It was then removed from the water-glass in which 

 it had been placed, and was transferred to a bed of damp 

 sand, covered by a bell-glass, exposed to a north window. 



