500 Lo7idon Horticultural Societt/ and Garden. 



larger than the common bigarreau, and a most abundant bearer. Winter's 

 black heart (Winter s schwarze knorpelkirsche) would be much finer in some 

 soils, and even larger and sweeter than the black heart. It is remarkable for 

 being a most abundant bearer. {Notes hy Mr. Thompson^ 



At a Special General Meeting held immediately after the exhibition, July 9., 

 pursuant to notice, the following article proposed to be added to the By- 

 Laws, and which had been previously suspended in the Meeting-Room, was 

 read for the third time, balloted for, and unanimously agreed to : — 



" Every Fellow of the Society who shall be three years in arrear of his 

 annual contributions shall be considered to have resigned, and the council 

 shall have power to erase his name from the list of the Society." 



August 2. 1836. — Presented. Transactiones Academite Naturae Curiosorum 

 of Bonn, Part ii. Vol. 1 7., from the Society, 



Exhibited. Plants, Erica Bowieawa, E. exigens [? exsurgens] cocclnea, E. 

 ampullacea,^. Irbya«a,and a dahlia (Fairbairn's Duchess of Northumberland), 

 from Mr. J. Fairbairn. Campanula fragilis, C. media, C. garganica, tS'partium 

 aethn^nse, Pjrus ^runifolia, from Mrs. Marryat. Four boxes of roses, from 

 Mr. S. Hooker. Fruits. The original round green-fleshed melon, and a brace 

 of cucumbers, from Mr. Cuthill. Three bunches of Muscadine grape, grown 

 on a hot- wall, without protection, from Lord Arran's garden at Bognor. 



From the Garden of the Society. Fuchsia discolor, Escallonia rubra var. 

 Alstroemena Hookerzi; Z/upinus Cruickshanksii, L. ornatus ; Ferbena sp. from 

 Valdivia, Scabiosa atropurpiirea grandiflora, Toumefortfa /^eliotropioides, 

 Psoralea glandulosa, P. macrostaehya ; Madia elegans, Cladanthus arabicus, 

 Gilia acMiWecBfolia, Godetk rubicunda, Potentilla Tormentllla, Brodiae^'a 

 grandiflora, Bartonza aurea, Nolana sufFruticosa, ikfalope trifida alba, Pent- 

 stemon ?oseus, Pyrethrum inodorum flore pleno, Wistaria sinensis, <S'partium 

 acutifolium, Ceanothus aziireus, roses, dahlias. 



Prizes awarded. — A Silver Knightian Medal to Mrs. Fairbairn, for heaths. 



Banksian Medals. — One to Mr. S. Hooker, for the roses j and one to 

 Mrs. Marryat, for the Campanula fragilis and garganica. 



Gold Medals. — At this Meeting it was announced that the greatest value 

 in medals, on the three days of exhibition at the garden this season, having 

 been obtained by the following exhibitors, th'ey had become entitled to the 

 Society's Large Gold Medal, in conformity with the regulations : Messrs. 

 RoUisson, May 14. ,- Mr. J. Green, June 1 1. j Messrs. Rollisson, July 9. The 

 regulations to be observed in the exhibition of articles, and the objects for 

 which prizes are oiFered at the exhibitions in the Society's Garden for the 

 year 1837, were distributed. 



August 16. — Presented. Proceedings of the Royal Asiatic Society, and the 

 13th Annual Report of the Council at the Anniversary Meeting on May 7. 



Exhibited. — Flowers. Sinningia guttata, S. Hellen'; Fuchsza globosa, F. 

 grandiflora ; Myoporum parvifolium, Ardisia crenulata, Oncidium papilio j 

 jBrica Ixhydna, three plants ; jBrica Parmentieri rosea, iVica cerinthoides 

 var., EricA retorta, Exicd. vestita rosea, jBrica Hartnelk' ; from Mrs. Law- 

 rence. Dahlias, four boxes, ditto seedlings ; one plant of a seedling Lantana ; 

 from Mr. Salter. Dahlias, a collection by Mr. S. Gilling. Enca. Kitowidna, and 

 E. Hartnelli, from Mr. J. Fairbairn. Epidendrum fragrans, from G. Barker, 

 Esq. Dahlias, six stands, by Messrs. Chandler. Megaclinium maximum, 

 Peristeria elata,from Messrs. Loddiges. Fruits. A hybrid melon, raised from 

 the Ispahan and white-fleshed-striped Hoosainee, from T. A. Knight, Esq. 

 Grapes grown in a pot, weight \\ lb., from P. H. Fleetwood, Esq., M.P. 



Prizes awarded. — Knightian Medals were awarded to Mrs. Lawrence, for 

 the above collection ; and one to Mr. Loddiges, for the plants above men- 

 tioned. 



Banksian Medals. — One to Mr. Salter, for his dahlias, &c. ; and one to 

 Messrs. Chandler. 



