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called the Acme American Cabbage, and the Acme Spanish Cos, said to be 

 new and hardy. From Thomas N. Parker, Esq., F.H.S., of Sweeney Hall, 

 near Oswestry, specimens of the Sweeney nonpareil apple. They were in ex- 

 cellent preservation, notwithstanding the lateness of the season, and quite 

 acid enough for kitchen use. They fully proved the claim of this apple to be 

 considered one of the best of the late keepers. From the Society's garden, a 

 collection of hardy and green-house plants, among which were fine specimens 

 of the Syringa Josikaea, a very striking species of lilac, found wild a few years 

 since in Transylvania, on the estate of the Countess Josika, near Sebes in 

 Klausenburg ; it differs from the common lilac in having narrower and thicker 

 leaves, and darker flowers, with much less fragrance. Helichrysum scor- 

 pioides D. C. a pretty half-hardy herbaceous plant, just received from Van 

 Piemen's land, and the brilliant white Spiraea barbata (Hoteia japonica 

 Decaisne, Spiraea japonica of gardeners), were also in this collection. 



The following medals were awarded : — The silver Knightian to Mr. John 

 Lumsden for Calceolarias ,• and to George Barker, Esq., for his Epidendrum 

 primulinum. The silver Banksian to Mrs. Lawrence, for Pavetta caffra; to 

 Mr. Glendinning, for pine-apples ; to Messrs. Lowe and Co., for Clematis 

 azurea ; to Mr. Myatt, for Victoria rhubarb ; to Messrs. Chandler, for the 

 varieties of Rhododendron catawbiensej and to Mr, Mountjoy, for his 

 heartsease. 



June 16. 1838. — Exhibition at the Garden. The number of visitors upon 

 this occasion was 6405, exclusive of exhibitors. The arrangements re- 

 mained as before, except that about 500 ft. of tables had been added in one of 

 the long tents, in order to receive large specimens of plants. The method of 

 judging was altered by arranging the duties of the judges under five separate 

 heads, to each of which distinct judges were assigned, and it was found that 

 by this plan the exhibitions submitted to competition could be more par- 

 ticularly examined. 



The awards were given in our preceding volume. 



June 19. 1838. — Special General Meeting. This was convened, conformably 

 to the provisions made by the by-laws, for the purpose of electing a Pre- 

 sident in the room of Thomas Andrew Knight, Esq., deceased, and for fillin°- 

 up the vacancy thus occasioned in the Council. The chair was taken by H. 

 Moreton D3er, Esq., Vice-President. The following resolutions put by the 

 Rev. Edwin Prodgers, and seconded by the Secretary, were carried unani- 

 mously : — 



" That this Meeting deeply deplore the loss the Society has sustained by 

 the death of their late President, Thomas Andrew Knight, Esq., an individual 

 not less distinguished for his private worth, than for his public usefulness, 

 whose memory, from the urbanity of his manners, the kindness of his dis- 

 position, his attachment to science generally, and more especially to that 

 branch patronised by this Society, will be long cherished, as his decease is 

 sincerely lamented." 



" That this expression of sympathy and condolence be communicated to his 

 wife and family." 



The Chairman then announced on the part of the Council, that it had been 

 determined to recommend, as the new President of the Society, the Most 

 Noble William Spencer Cavendish, Duke of Devonshire, and as a new member 

 of the Council, Sir Philip de Malpas Grey Egerton, Bai t., M.P. At the close 

 of the ballot the office of Scrutineers was undertaken by the Right Hon. W. 

 Sturges Bourne, Sir Oswald Mosley, Bart., and William Harrison, Esq., who 

 reported that the election had unanimously fallen upon His Grace the Duke 

 of Devonshire, as President; and Sir Philip de M. Grey Egerton, Bart., as a 

 new Member of the Council. 



June 19. 1838. — Ordinary Meeting. Exhibited. From the Honourable Wm. 

 Fox Strangways, F.H.S., a stick of the olive tree which had been killed in 

 the garden at Abbotsbury by the last winter. It was grown at the foot of the 

 terrace at Abbotsbury at a distance from any wall. It had never been covered 



