PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
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Testimonial fo Dr. Lindley, 
The following letter has been addressed by Mr. 
Bateman, on behalf of the Contributors, to Dr. 
Lindley. 
ДЕТ Mig ыр Мау 28, 18 
Sone 1 ‘mot 
Ss 
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called forth 
се s subseriptiondlist q 
pere 
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e those of 
aiil "distinguished for their scientific 
ma ay a 
and on onti- 
"э буле both in 
erm and as 
, ish а 
which, while handsome = its genera ral character, 
uld als som 
e been 
cially devoted.” Mr. Williams 
oen E of the somewhat түлөн" task 
roduc ork of 
im, and having p 
тек а taste and skill, your fri oar were 
desirous of. presenting it to you through the 
ation: 
is 
our prayers that may ere long be again 
ored to den A heat wen spared to pro- 
еме for yet many yea come those scientific 
researches that have iready s — you an im- 
Perishable name.—Pra ay b me, dear Dr. 
Lindley, very ed es 
ened) ЈАМЕЅ BATEMAN. 
To Professor Pes F.R.S. 
Dr Lindley has returned the following reply. 
Acton Green, е е London, 
864. 
ur ызы ties —It is now some Ta 
ine mee Seas > u, the very handso 
iece of Plate a which зо, me most kind friends 
ате presented me x a Testimonial of their 
Ям robation of sis — = to e Royal 
tcultural Society and Bo 
: pou" to say that the daté of = "health has 
а inf Sy terms, = dt of the “Pla te ; hey even ` 
w I find m myself u nable to do so as I should have 
wi 
unicate, I feel wholl 
, in my present state ‘of health, to act as 
- have wished. 
e therefore to express, through 
friends to whom I am indebted be gre 
de 
sense of gratitude for the 
honour that has been conferred upon me—an 
m the more fel as it has 
The delicate attention which has been shown 
i са design of the Epergne is, I assur 
roughly а уар Y 
азе selected anything more suitable to me; пог, 
$ me add, с күт онь: in my opinion, n ae been 
better executed in silver. 
ray, then 4 dear Mr. Bate eman, do me the 
a 
and accept tud same i 3908 urself, 
active part which you have Deteotally taken in con- 
neetion with it. 
And believe me to be, most i yours, 
Signed) Joun LINDLEY. - 
James Bateman, Esq., F.R.S. 
Miscelaneos. 
CONES OF THE ama, —There are cones of 
the Deodar now growing at Chiswick Чоме (the 
Duchess of Sutherland's) n near the y rs of 
Lebanon, on which cones of thi v 
g. The colour of the cones at the sa 
age и diffe qe e Deodar being 
with n also green although of 
a а different Кс "isle that of the Cedar has a 
narrow crimson margin to the green scale 
* DLACK LLYHOCKS.—AÀ rather extraordinary 
special eulture is now carried on in the neighbour 
0 А knows the dark 
e contain a great qua 
colouring principle which i is cs adc in colouring 
wines and dyin мар а his 
ma where re they h have 
manufacturer and a аб P "Nuremberg, exports 
corres quantis '— Belgique Horticole, Oct. 
186 
p pha —М. mei lately re- 
-— that this piik i hid been ced 
upon tes exposed in a cating ут; е nde 
on ine to Wavre, as АД the seeds had been 
eT enclosed in the slat 
More recent enq uiry p not confirmed his 
y prove that that 
traordin 
of f Nivelles." — Ddlgique Horticole, loc. cit. supra, 
