PROCEEDINGS OF THE 



October 4. 1842. 

 ORDINARY MEETING. 



The following were elected Fellows of the Society : 



The Count de Sails, of Ilillinj^don, Middlesex. 

 Edwurd St. \'incent Diirhy Esq, Mintcrn, Dorsetshire. 

 Hugh Hornby Esq., Uibley, Preston, Lancashire. 



The following were the principal subjects of exhibition. 



From Mr Goode, Gardener to Mrs. Lawrence F. H. S. a large 

 collection of Orchi'laceous and other plants containing very beau- 

 tiful specimens of Oncidium viicrochilum and Crowea saligna, 

 (Knightian Mei>al, awarded.) 



From Mr. Henderson, Gardener, to Sir George Beaumont, 

 Bart, six handsome Queen Pine Jpples, weighing respectively 3 lb. 

 9oz.,3lb. 8oz.,3 lb. 8 oz., 3 lb. 1 oz., 2 lb. 1 4 oz., and 2 lb.'l3 oz. 

 (Certificate awarded.) 



From Mr. Davis, Gardener to Sir Samuel Houghton Clarke, a 

 remarkably fine Providence Pine Jpple, weighing 8lb. 3oz.j with 

 an equally well grown specimen of the Enville ditto, weighing 

 7lb. 7oz., (KxiGUTiAX Medal awarded.) 



From Richard Brooke Esq. F. H. S. an exceedingly fine bunch 

 oi Mui,cat of Alexandria Grapes weighing 2lb. lluz. (Baxksian 

 Medal awarded.) 



From Mr. Joseph Bailey, Gardener to Richard Thompson Esq. 

 of Stansty Hall, Wrexham, three bunches of Muscat of Aleian^ 

 dria Grapes two of which weighed lilb each and the other lib. 

 5oz. (Cektificate awarded.) 



From Mr. Mc. Evoy, Gardener to Sir Bruce Chichester, Bart. 

 Arlington Court, Barnstaple, Devon, an Enville Pine Apple, 

 weighing 21b. 9oz., which had been cut from a plant wintered 

 with many others in a cold Vinery, where the thermometer on 

 many mornings had fallen below the freezing point. The plants 

 consequently, lost all their roots, but were afterwards repotted 

 into peat soil and were fruited in 24 sized pots. 



From Mr. Thomas Foster, Gardener to Viscount Downe of 

 Beningbrough Hall, Yorkshire, a very fine Montserrat Pine Apple 

 weighing 6lb. 6oz. (Knightian Medal awarded.) 



From xMr. Edward Spirey, Gardener to J. Sharpe Esq. of 

 Chippenham Park near Mildenhall, Suffolk, two Seedling Cucum- 

 bers, one 23 inches, the other 24 inches in length. 



From Mr. Errington, Gardener to Sir Philip Grey Egerton 



