PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
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Ъ ladies carry their bouquets 
If so, does that little implement 
to be a bouquet-holder when transferred to a 
arble stand on the drawing-room table ? or vede 
it [^ disqualified -if a ч magnified and fast- 
ned ae the wall 
$ the = must be drawn somewhere 
rnament, in which 
ball or the play ? 
eas 
And even ‘although i ere not,some definition is 
still needed, for no fair аабай а bee plave 
pee a dinne le oes a hand 
bouquet.—ANn INTENDING Werth 
will find = word “ bouquet" thus defined .— 
“ Bouquet (енды орой jenem. erac 
(Italian n 
wers, the sial 
int.” 
Under this Arie, ee oe a саки ап epergne 
not fall wi ning of a bou quet- holder, 
while a han na bo bouquet- "holder would, an 
maces to which it might be put would not alter 
ts character or name. 
of ры oe = the Ey on which the 
oca = ‚ is vm ex 
prizes fo ан si иб orious, whether 
it comes s within the literal interpretation of the 
prize offered or not.] 
Mr. BarEMAN's CHALLENGE MEDAL FOR OR- 
ze to the 
Meetings e H and t 
marks are to be reckoned from First-c Certi 
cates, Second-c Certificates, and Certificates of 
Commendation, Will Medal or е take 
à one of the Great Shows count for something ?— 
PHR 
[No. А medal or prize has no determinate 
value = would admit of its being estimated 
on the footing as any of the certificates 
of the. Floral „Committee „To Admit them might 
Introduce ‚ for which there 
is no › necessity. The Floral Committee holds 
the Great Shows, and 
courage, 
from taking both рыз i iil certifica tes] 
Acricunroran AND HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 
OF INDIA, — Metcalfe: Hall, Calcutta. How. 13, 1868, 
Drar 8 the Council of the 
а 
E 
428 
c4 
o 
я 
Qu 
J. У. R 
OBINSON,| Acting Sec. 
Horticultural Society. 
Suggestions from Дш. 
paT L LEAVES. атут to suggest, 
of Autumn Leaves dicti be 
instructive, 
It would introduce the subject of the best rich- 
the comet L that a show 
both interesting and 
1 
tinted trees (hardy) for the VEA ae _— 
although appreciated by all, is studied b 
EXHIBITION or FoLrAGE 
tations is much influen 
colour gs = Е 
опе ог Exhibitio: 
—The beauty of р. 
сей by the character and 
Might not эч Society hold 
ons durin e year of 
branches Г. pes of all kinds, оны the finest 
specimens of form and colour? Е. S. 
ТЇШ. 
E OAK TnEr.—Oak tree near “ Windmill,” 
Over с Tabley Cheshire, cut down May, 1862 
he bole с ontained about 250 feet of timber : 
height to crown, 17 feet 6 indies; 17 feet 6 inches 
e ' ground ; e feet 
Е алани 3 feet from "the crown, Sold by 
T. Г. Brooke, Esq., for 601. 
LD GEAN Trexs.—To what dme does this tree 
? Mr. Chalmers, of Aldbar, echin. 
frait, although 
n dead for the] last stra Аза eem 
90—1600, at whieh time 
sanos to the front door, gardens 
side. Can any of e Fellows inf 
of этине of an older date 
т oF Dr, LINDLEY. ds number of the 
are 
ved 
т. Lin m to have a por- 
painted of him for Podio e in the 
Socioti's Rooms. . Lindley ki 
wp е7 Eddis has been employed to уранга the 
port: 
The no gentlemen to whom the Society will be in- 
debted for the of a likeness on their 
walls of one to whom “it owes so much, are 
following, viz. :— 
The Duke of Buccleuch, The Duke of Northum- 
rland, The Earl of Ducie, The Earl Somers, The 
Bishop of Winchester, ulivan, Sir John 
Ramsden, Sir Morton 
МЕ. Robert 
Tux direc то Dr. LINDLEY. —Upwards 
of 2002. has bee bed to this Testimonial, 
in sums limited p on ls. Many eee: 
expressed their regret at at the 
in amount, but the original орой 
adhered to. t 
lants the 
or monographed— 
