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PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY, 
ment of gardeners—to make themselves acquainted 
with the scientific and ану вн 1 prin 
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offered after the Society’s Cu or the year 
had been published, qe са but short and insuf- 
ficient notice could b 
. William Wein: of Wallington, масакар, 
gardener, having pr eviously кере the priz 
botany at the Society of amination, was 
à disqualified P € competing in 
that subj 
DArocecdings of the Society. 
ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING, 
May 30, ae 
J. J. Brandy, Esq., V.P., in the Chair 
The following candidates Wee duly elected 
Fellows of the Society: 
Aird, John, Jun., the May les, Lewisham 
Bessborough, the "eg of, 40, Charles Street, 
Berkeley ro a 
mener Wc #8 55. Queen’s Gardens, Hyde 
Bryan, Richard, v Hanover Terrace Villas, Ken- 
sington Par 
Cowan, John Silicon, т Prince’s Square, Bays- 
Göschen, Mrs. pas 2, 66 Mount Street, Gros- 
venor Square 
anne William, 96 Gloucester Terrace, Hyde 
Arundel. 
Maccaughey, Н. W., South Side, Wimbledon 
Common, S. 
dt De Moraes Sarmento, 33 Rutland Gate, 
eem. sere Brinsley, 6 St. James's Terrace, Har- 
Salvin, Anthony, Jun, 4 Adam Street, Adelphi, 
—— H., 7 Sumner Terrace, Onslow Square, 
Soi. Mrs. Martin Ridley, 41 Onslow Square, 
Tarleton, Thomas Smith, 44 Thurloe ERT S.W. 
Thompson, Samuel, 62 Eccleston Square, S.W. 
Dedi ncis, 14 Burlington Road, Westbourne 
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Scientific ечк 
еы JosuvA e Chairman of the 
hapman. He expla ained 
n fruited in this country 
and also by Mr. 
as Dr. Hogg "—— Mace the recommendation of 
requiring only tw nths to ripen when forced. 
It had been found i in a the A piger of the Earl of 
Stair for nenny 100 y 
The Rev. J. м! RKELEY commenced his 
TA RU Us with some r Bi ге on the scents of 
Arums. The spathes of some of these plants, 
though brillant in eolour, were fetid in odour; 
and had the Amorphophallus been in flower when 
exhibited at this previous meeting, it would ha 
iven every one from the roo its cadaverous 
smell. ape tubers of so f the species were poi 
sonous ell as disagreeable in odour; and yet 
some, again, xps their apes were e edible. The tubers 
of the Arum maculat rds 
and Ladies, whieh ima abundantly ir in e isle of 
Portland, are pta, Bird. ep sold in Lon- 
don under the e of Port 
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was so ГЫ 1 in aiu dass as the Fungi; 
and s of t on of 
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ic ‚ Berkele 
all came up tá Thelephora fetida. He had met 
with the ps three 
It made his roo 
all the ее 
odour after he had wrapped pA plant ар in 
sheets of the thickest brown paper. 
Robinia Pseud-Acacia y pe ene was stated i 
be a jy аме Уй и Berkeley , гот tha 
union of a се d 
C. Laburnum, and that T ll-grafting the : 
perties of both species had ransmit 
the offspring, C. 
So doi: were made on the Chi hiek Pea 
in тай ve ‘ah ee 
it is effected by a species of су 
he figs, and sometimes it is done Au d. 
able rise in tempera 
ing of the ded < ad I: 
and the exh 
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