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PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
Orchids, 
THE Council сота тю pleasure of announcing to 
the Fellows, that they have been enabled through 
e kin dness kh pen of the most celebrated 
rchid growers, to make коко by which 
frequent ck upon the orchids in their respec- 
tive collections shall appear Me this heading. 
RENANTHERA COCCINEA. —Mr. Arnold communi- 
cat of this 
beautiful aee мен was weeds in la last 1 number 
of the. Proce 
$ I may og — 
the prey i tto vine the plant has 
subjected. It was in 1862, into à inch 
= 
E 
E 
the top. 
ike sent was cut from below the bend. 
The plan received from the Brazils, 1858.— 
С. RUSHMORE, агн Tendery Hall, Suffolk.” 
0105 and Queries, 
Ir is proposed under this headi eading to give the 
Fellows an easy бане for Uere a ean 
upon any subject — r puzzle 
em, is that чене valuable infor- 
— md ы elici ited. if the Fellows y 
unicate replies on suc athe ey may 
ies: subjects 
have studied, or feel themselves сомо to 
nswer 
UCULIA GRATISSIMA.— SIR,— Can any brother 
horticulturist tell me wh Luculia gratissima 
Appears to defy the efforts of the best gardeners 
liage thy and handsome 
ume 
mount of root pen 
"agg залы вањ; the t of 
a ance. 
good explanation, b but Eo ie (almos st) in rim 
UCU 
Eric DENSE.— Srr,— i 
л 8 iater с th Belgique Нойер, the 
1 g ting to an in 
said to have been recently notioad ern ы 
м, Кеп, otice of it in glish 
em escaped my attention, it may possibly have 
n passed over also m ‘your re 
should be 
wn from it 
Erigeron Canad, - moule conclusion—Is not 
Sand to allow of a rop mei up miio t 
i correctly reported, and I should 
Nr cw ori: the inference drawn 
having to look фо the termination of the glacial 
hi 
It o be g H i 
at a very interesting observation 
Ww En 3 
n , if it be correct, upon the 
transatlantic migration of the Erigeron of Canada 
I to construct the station at Beckenham 
upon the central line of railway in Kent 
orkmen had remove the sandy soil 
depth of about two yards. After having com- 
1 hat operation, по tention 
bestowed upon the earth freshly removed. But 
it ot being remarked that the 
soil was covered by a plant unknown in the dis- 
trict. The Zrigeron ғ ана е had set itself a 
growing in all эрме with so much vigo 
that it "pem off, , all other vegeta- 
of years. — 
и the age of this bed of ea 
not the first time that а ios во ехітао 
= pem A mns 
t8, 
бобо. лося е а cme plan 
the Galium A punys and ы Trifolium. Айди 
оп diluvian gra vel dug out of а sand- pit fo 
repairs of a public road" Таш, &c., C. 
PS AND CAB 
ook in 
1 j^ дй all that. Iam, &c., Brassica. 
PoLvaANTHUS.—S d isa ipe ? 
у Yours, FLORELLA. 
p for the brevity of my letter by 
the length ‘of ie erra —F. 
Obituary. 
THE Society has to record the see loss by 
death of the оное Fellow 
Fellows of the Society. For half a century Mr, 
n de to e cultivation to 
ne time turning his ИР БИР 
bulbs, several of which are figured in the кт e 
Transactions t flowered by him. Of 17 
years he had еј е collection of Roses, bly 
о š Garden deer proba 
fF 
one of the best 
а mr. —Miss D. Cunkrow,of Addison 
collections in E 
EB 
5th Mir rtr Mason HEPBURN, of Cambridge 
Terrace, у U 
5th February. ыт Lovisa Lyaon, of Upp 
Errem wife of Jus 
‘ebruary,—Lapy KEATING 
tice Keating, of the Court of Common Pleas. 
