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northern countries, in very hard and long-continued frost; namely, the largest 

 and hardest timber trees are rent asunder by the expansive force of the warmer 

 sap, and elastic gases enclosed therewith. — J. M. London, April, 1837. 



Horlicultural Societies. — We have had great difficulty in arranging the 

 scheme of prizes so as to afford equal chances to all competitors. We have 

 not funds sufficient to give separate prizes in every article for nurserymen and 

 gentlemen's gardeners. Could you not assist us by requesting the officers of 

 horticultural societies to send you their schemes, and by giving them in the 

 December Number of vour Magazine, either in a tabular or digested form ? — 

 T. W. Barnslei/, June 28. \837. 



Piston sp. — Mr. Herbert, in his excellent work on AmaryWiddcece mentions, 

 (p. 353.) a leguminous plant, which he had seen cultivated in Yorkshire, having 

 the growth of a vigorous field-pea, but seeds that no man would hesitate to 

 call beans, and which have the flavour of beans when boiled. The plant is 

 very fertile, and has every appearance of being a mixed production between the 

 pea and the bean. Can any of }our readers inform me where I could procure 

 seeds of this very remarkable plant ? — IViomas Brown. Yor/c, ylpril, 1837. 



AuT. VI. The London Horticultural Society and Garden. 



Award oftlie Judges at tJie Exliibition, May 13, 1837 : — 



Ttie Gold Kniglitian Medal. — For exotic (^rchidcEe, to Sigismond Rucker, 

 Esq., jun., F.H.S. ; for exotic Orchfdeae, to Messrs. RoUisson of Tooting; 

 for a large collection of stove and green-house plants, to Mr. John Green, 

 gardener to Sir Edmund Antrobus, Bart., F.H.S. 



Tlie Gotd BanJisian Medal. — For green-house azaleas, to Mr. Smith, of 

 Norbiton ; for a large collection of stove and green-house plants, to Mr. 

 Butcher, gardener to Mrs. Lawrence, F.H.S.; for six stove and green-house 

 plants, of ditferent genera, to Mr. Falconer, gardener to Archdale Palmer, Esq. 



Tlie Large Silver j\Iedal. — For green-house azaleas, to Mr. Redding, 

 gardener to Mrs. Marryat, F.H.S. ; for melon-shaped Cacti, to Mr. George 

 Glenny, F.H.S.; for Oncidium pumilum, to Mr. James Bruce, gardener to 

 B. Miller, Esq., of Collier's Wood, Merton ; for Dendrobium spcciosum, to 

 Messrs. Luconibe and Pince of Exeter ; for pelargoniums, to Mr. William 

 Cock of Chiswick ; for pelargonmms, to Messrs. Colley and Hill of Ham- 

 mersmith ; for rhododendrons, in pots, to Mr. George Glenny, F.H.S. ; for 

 rhododendrons, in pots, to Mr. N. Gaines of Battersea; for Chinese and 

 Noisette roses, to Mr. Lane of Great Berkhampstead; for a large collection 

 of stove and green-house plants, to Mr. James Lane, gardener to J. H. Pal- 

 mer, Esq., F.H.S.; for six stove and green-house plants, of different genera, 

 to Mr. George Glenny, F.H.S. ; for six stove and green-house plants, of dif- 

 ferent genera, to Messrs. RoUison : for herbaceous calceolarias, to Mr. John 

 Green; for shrubby calceolarias, to Mr. Butcher; for tall Cacti, to Mr, John 

 Green ; for cherries, to Mr. G. Sheills, Erskine, near Glasgow : for grapes, 

 to Mr. George Mills, F.H.S., gardener to Mrs. Rothschild, Gunnersbury 

 Park ; for pine-apples, to Mr. George Lyne, gardener to H. Perkins, Esq., 

 F.H.S.; for Azalea indica pulchra, to Mr. Holland, gardener to Miss Tunno, 

 of Taplow Lodge; for i?rica Monson/c/«ff, to Messrs. Lucombe and Pince; 

 for miscellaneous plants, to Messrs. Chandler and Sons, Vanxhall. 



The Silver Kniglitian Medal. — For hardy azaleas, to Mr. George Glenny, 

 F.H.S.; for heartsease, to Mr. George King, gardener at Hillingdon Piac'e, 

 near Uxbridge; for heartsease, to Mr. Mountjoy of Hanwell Nursery, Eal- 

 ing; for pelargoniums, to Mr. Gaines; for a large collection of stove and 

 green-house plants, to Mr. George Glenny, F.H.S.; for six stove and green- 

 house plants, of different genera, to Mr. Redding ; for AmnrylliddcecF, to Mr. 

 Salter of Chiselhurst ; for herbaceous calceolarias, to Mr. Falconer; for 



