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render, Bart., F.H.S., for Peaches. 19. To Mr. Wright, 

 gardener to the Hon. Mrs. Rushout, of Wanstead Grove, 

 for the same. 20. To Mr. C. Ewing, gardener to 0. F. 

 Meyrick, Esq. F.H.S., for Peaches and Nectarines. 21. 

 To Mr. TV. Davis, gardener to John Disney, Esq., for 

 Apples. 22. To Robert Crutwell, Esq., of Bath, for 

 Strawberries. 23. To Mr. Foggo, gardener to the Mar- 

 quess of Abercorn, F.H.S., for Figs. 



August 5, 1845. (Regent Street.) 



Elections. The Earl of Southampton, 66, Mount Street, and 

 Whittlebury Lodge, Towcester ; the Hon. R. P. Arden, Pep- 

 per Hall, Cattericlv ; F. H. Cornewall, Esq., Delbury Hall, 

 near Ludlow ; AV. Evetts, Esq., Woodstock, Oxon ; J. G. 

 Parry, Esq., Higham Court, Gloucester; W. W. Valk, 

 M.D., Flushing, Long Island; W. S. A. Unthank, Esq., 

 34, St. Peter's Square, Hammersmith ; and the Rev. J. 

 Horner, Mills Park, Somerset. 



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

 to Mrs. Lawrence, F.H.S., for various Orchids, especially 

 the little white-blossomed Eria densiflora, the rare Cattleya 

 granulosa, and a fine Aerides quinquevulnera. 



Banksian Medals : To Messrs. Fairbairn, of Clapham, for an 

 exceedingly well-grown collection of Cape Heaths, espe- 

 cially two seedlings named Vernonii and Wilsonii. To 

 Mr. Moore, gardener to the Earl of Auckland, for a capital 

 specimen of the beautiful twining Brazilian plant Stigma- 

 phyllon aristatum, about 4 feet in height. 



Certificates : To Messrs. Brown and Attwell, of Uxbridge, for 

 20 varieties of Carnations, and the same number of Pic- 

 cotees. To Mr. Ferguson, of Aylesburj^ for an excellent 

 specimen of Oncidium incurvum. To Mr. Cole, gardener 

 to C. Lewis, Esq., for a fine plant of Clerodendrum fallax. 

 To Mr. Cutliill, of Camberwell, for Lisianlhus Russel- 

 lianus. To C. B. Warner, Esq., for Cattleya violacea. 



Novelties from the Society's Garden. Beautiful masses, 

 in pans, of the different species of Achimenes, which were 

 raised in close pits, heated by no other means than by the 

 rays of the sun. The advantage of this method of culture 

 is that the plants are not drawn up weakly, but are stiff 

 and short-jointed, and are better able to withstand any 

 hardship to which they may happen to be exposed. Niphaea 

 oblonga, a near relation of these, and whose tufts of white 

 blossoms, produced at this season, render it very useful, 

 was also grown in the same way, and with equal success, 



