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PROCKKUINO^ OK THK 



The following Mwluls wen- awarcKd j 



I'lu* Silver Kni^htian to Mr. Newson, for A/.aloa indica alba, 

 and to Mr. Uoddinp, for Aiulronuda norihuiula and Camellia 

 rt*ticulaia. 



'Vhc SUnr Ihtnlisidn to INlr. IV N. Don, for Oncidiuni jmbes ; 

 and to Joliii Ailntitt, Ksq., for A/.aloa indica alba. 



'I ho following Presents were announced ; 



The Ladies' Flower Garden, Nos. 2 and 3, from Messrs. Loudon. 

 The Atlu mi um for Frhrudry, from the Editor, 

 'i'ho yioricultural Cdhinet for Mdrch, from Mr. .1. Ilarri.son, 

 The lh)tdnic(tl R( <^isb-r for Mdrc/i, from the Publisliers. 

 Bdxtir's Britiali Fluwcring Pldnts, No. bO, from the Author. 



March 19, 1839. 



ORDINARY MEETING. 



The following Fellows were elected ; 



Hamilton Gill, Esq., of Shenley Lodge, near St. Albans. 

 Mrs. Charles Mills, of Camelford House, Oxford Street. 

 Henry Thomas Hope, Esq., M.P., of 1, Mansfield Street. 



A paper was read by Mr. Philip Conway, Gardener to Law- 

 rence Sulivan, Esq., F.H.S., upon an improved plan of con- 

 stituting Macphail's Pits. 



The most novel features in the plan were these ; the pit is 

 filled with blocks of wood to the height of three feet three 

 inches ; and over the blocks are placed a layer six inches thick 

 of fermented leaves, and upon the leaves the earth rests in 

 which the plants are made to grow. The walls of the pit are 

 hollow, and pigeon-holed from the bottom upwards to the height 

 of the blocks of wood. The dung linings are applied externally 

 in the usual way, resting upon the external pigeon-holes ; the 

 heat and moisture they produce pass into the hollow walls 

 which they warm, and thence through the interior pigeon-holes 

 to the blocks of wood, among which they circulate and finally 

 rise into the mould through the layer of fermented leaves. 1 he 

 author stated that the effect of this plan was to produce a fine 

 humid atmosphere, well suited to the growth of Melons and 

 Cucumbers, and that the latter could be grown in such a pit suc- 

 cessfully at the earliest seasons of the year. 



The following matters were exhibited ; 



From Mr. Philip Conway, a brace of Cucimihers produced m 

 such a pit as that just described. 



