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PROCKKDINOK OF THB 



February 4, 1840. 



ORDINARY MEETING. 



Tlic fi)llowint; were elected Fellows of the Society ; 



liie \ isi(Uint Bercliaveii, Hantry House, liantry, County of 

 Cork. 



Janu's lirowiu ll Hoothby. Kscj., Twyford A])l)ey. 

 Charles llainl)ro, Ks(j., Arlington House, 'I'urnhain (ireeu. 

 (ieori;e de Hochepied Larpent, Es(j., Hoe.hampton, Surrey. 

 Capt. W. I'rowse, R.N., ly. lierkeley Square. 



The following were the principal objects exhibited ; 



From the Rev. Charles Annesley, a drawing of a plant of 

 Musa Paradisiaca, or Plantain, which had flowered at Eydon 

 Hall. It was accompanied by a note, stating that this very (ine 

 specimen of that beautiful exotic was in a high state of perfec- 

 ti(<n in the stove, with the fruit and flowers fully developed. The 

 height of the stem was fifteen feet three inches j the circum- 

 ference at one foot from the ground, two feet, four inches j and 

 the largest diameter of the space occupied by the foliage, fifteen 

 feet. Mr. Annesley had obtained the plant from Mr. Knight, 

 King's Road, Chelsea, and placed it in its present position, when 

 about three feet high, in the year 1835. 



F>om Mr. Edmunds, Gardener to His Grace the Duke of Devon- 

 shire, at Chiswick, a fine specimen of the rare epiphyte, Miltonia 

 Russelliana. (Silver Knightian Medal awarded.) 



From Mr. Paxton, Gardener to His Grace the Duke of Devon- 

 shire, at Chatsworth, a dish of fruit of Musa Cacendishii, 



From Mr. James Baldwin, of Turnham Green, the following 

 Apples, all in perfectly good condition, and excellent samples of 

 the best winter varieties ; viz. 1 Pentecote, 2 Kerry Pippin, 8 

 Ribston pippin, 4 Robinson's pippin, 5 Rhode Island Greening, 

 G Royal russet, 7 Alfriston, 8 Blenheim pippin, 9 Holland pippin, 

 10 King of the pippins, 1 1 Wellington, 12 Warwickshire, 13 

 Hoary Morning, 14 Emperor Alexander, 15 Veiny pippin, 16' 

 Pomme de Niege, 17 Pet worth, 18 Red everlasting, 19 F^earns 

 pippin, 20 Devonshire pippin, 21 Golden noble, 22 New mig- 

 nonne. (Silver Banksiax Medal awarded.) 



From the Society's Garden, a collection of Jlowers and winter 

 apples. Among the former were Manglesia glabrata, a new and 

 pretty shrub from the Swan River, and Echeveria gihhiflora, a 

 handsome greenhouse succulent plant of the easiest cultivation, 

 which continues to produce a succession of flowers during all the 

 winter. 



