HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



25 



June, 19, 1838. 



ORDINARY MEETING. 



The following candidate was elected Fellow of the Society. 



William Shackell, Esq. of Hammersmith. 

 The following objects were exhibited 3 



From the Honourable Wm. Fox Strangways, F. H. S., a stick 

 of the Olive Tree, which had been killed in the garden at Abbots- 

 bury 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 

 in the winter ; and was raised from a cutting taken from a green- 

 house plant in 1829 or 30, struck in a pot, then planted out and 

 tlie whole of the original cutting which was crooked, cut otF. So 

 that this stick was a young shoot from the root, not more than 

 seven years growth, produced entirely in the open air. It mea- 

 sured (the end shoots cut off) 5 feet in length, 1 foot round the 

 base. 



F>om Thomas Harris, Esq., F. H. S., of Kingsbury, a very ex- 

 tensive and remarkable collection of Cactaceous plants. Many 

 of the specimens were aged individuals imported from Mexico, 

 and some of them exhibited in a striking manner the transition 

 from round or spheroidal stems to compiessed and sinuous ones. 

 Opuntia senilis and several specimens of Cereus senilis were pre- 

 sent in great perfection ; as w'ere some seedlings of the latter, 

 nine months old, which were quite free from the long hoary 

 hairs, w'hich give that plant so singular an appearance when old. 

 This collection was accompanied by a small collection of green- 

 house plants, among which w^ere Diplolcena Dampieri and Hoitzia 

 mexicana. 



F'rom Mr. John Lumsden, Gardener to H. Bevan, Esq., F'.H.S., 

 a dish of fine Elriige Nectarines. 



From Sir C. Lemon, Bart., a dish of Lemons ripened at Car- 

 clew. 



F>om James Bateman, Esq., 1\ H. S., specimens of the Epi- 

 dendrum macrochilum, and of a new species of that genus which 

 he proposes to call Epidendrum alatum. The latter was accom- 

 panied by the following memorandum. 



" A remarkably fine and distinct new species of Epidendrum dis- 

 covered by Mr. Skinner in the interior of Honduras and kindly 

 sent to me from thepce in the summer of 1837. The habit is 

 exceedingly striking, the leaves being dark green, two feet Ipng, 

 gracefully curved, and placed in twos and threes on the apex of 

 the large oval pseudo-bulbs. It grows very freely, and though 

 now flowering for the first time, and therefore of course with not 



