xlvi PROCEEDINGS. 



and maintained day and night in a temperature within a 

 degree or two of 60°. Here being exposed to conditions 

 very favourable to the formation of leaf buds, that is to say, 

 to equable warmth and moisture, and an abundance of diffused 

 light, the surface of the scales of the bulb soon emitted 

 little tubercles, which gradually organised themselves as 

 young bulbs. In that state was the specimen now pro- 

 duced. The object of the experiment was to show that 

 plants may be propagated from any part of their surface. 



Books Presented. 



Comptes rendus des Seances de TAcademie Royale des Sciences a Paris, 2me Se- 



mestre, 1844. From the Academy at Paris. 

 The Athenaeum for March, April, and May. From the Editor. 

 The Botanical Register for June. From the Publishers. 

 Theorie Elementaire de la Botanique, par M. A. P. De CandoU'e. (3me edition, 



Paris, 1814.) 

 Journal of the Agricultural and Horticultural Society of India. Parts 1 and 2, vol. iii. 



From the Society. 

 List of the Geological Society to March 1 , 1 845. From the Society. 

 The Florists' Journal, Nos. 72 and 73. From the Editor. 



Jxme 21, 1845. (Garden Exhibition.) 

 The weather was exceedingly propitious, and the exhibition 

 of Flowers and Fruit magnificent. The number of visitors 

 amounted to 12,355, exclusive of exhibitors. 



The Award was as follows : — • 



Large Gold Medals: 1. To Mr. Barnes, gardener to G. W. 

 Norman, Esq., of Bromley Common, Kent, for a collection 

 of forty stove and greenhouse plants. 2. To Mr. Mylam, 

 gai'dener to Sigismund Rucker, Esq., Jun., F.H.S., for 

 twenty species of Exotic Orchids. 



Gold Knightian Medals: 1. To Mr. J. Robertson, gardener 

 to Mrs. Lawrence, F.PI.S., for a collection of forty stove 

 and greenhouse plants. 2. To Mr. Frazer, of Lea Bridge 

 Road, for a collection of twenty stove and greenhouse plants. 

 3. To Mr. J. Robertson, gardener to Mrs. Lawrence, 

 F.H.S., for twenty species of Exotic Orchids. 4, To the 

 same, for twenty varieties of Cape Heaths. 5. To Messrs. 

 Fairbairn, Nurseryman, Clapham, for the same. 



Gold Banksian Medals : 1 . To Mr. W. P. Ayres, gardener 

 to James Cook, Esq., F.H.S., for a collection of twenty 

 stove and greenhouse plants. 2. To Mr. Bruce, gardener 

 to Boyd Miller, Esq., of Collier's Wood, Mitcham, for a 

 collection of twelve stove and Greenhouse plants. 3. To 

 Messrs. Rollisson, of Tooting, for twenty species of Exotic 

 Orchids. 4. To Mr. Don, gardener to F. G. Cox, Esq., 

 F.H.S., for twelve species of Exotic Orchids. 5. To Mr. 

 Eyles, gardener to Sir George Larpent, F.H.S., for six 



