HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF LONDON'. 



433 



From Mr. Fleming, Gardener to His Grace the Duke of 

 Sutherland, at Trentham Park, three Persian melons, weighing 

 respectively 8 lb. 8oz., 10 lb. 5 oz., and Sib. 15 oz. (Banksian 

 Medal awarded.) 



From Mr. M. Busby, Gardener, Titness Park, Sunning Hill, 

 Berks, a beautiful large green fleshed PVellington melon, weighing 

 6 lb. 5 oz., also a Scarlet fleshed variety, weighing 3 lb. 2 oz. 

 (Certificate awarded for the former.) 



From Mr. Fish, Gardener to Thomas Sowerby, Esq. F.H.S., 

 Putteridge Bury, Luton, a dish of Keen's Seedling Strawberries, 

 highly coloured and of excellent quality, being the second crop 

 which was gathered from plants that had been forced in spring. 

 (Certificate awarded.) 



From Mr. Henderson, Gardener to Sir George Beaumont, 

 Bart., a Globe Pine Apple, weighing 5 lb. 5 oz. (Certificate 

 awarded.) 



From Mr. Saul, Gardener to the Earl Fortescue, F.H.S. 

 Castle Hill, Devonshire, a very handsome Queen Pine Apple, 

 weighing 4 lb. 



From Richard Brook, Esq., F.H.S., a bunch of Muscat of Alex- 

 andria Grapes. 



From the Garden of the Society were plants of Begonia Evansia- 

 na, Mandevilla suaveolens,Chironia frutescens, Babingtonia Campho- 

 Tosmce, and a Hymenocallis sent from Jamaica by Mr. Hartweg j 

 also Brassavola venosa, Comarostaphylis arbutoides, and Fuchsia 

 Standishii, with cut flowers of Lupinus semperjiorens, and a dish 

 of Late Admirable Peaches. 



The following presents were announced : 



Verhandlungen des Vereins zur Beforderung des Garten und 

 Feldbaues, Vol. 2, Part 1, Weissensee, 1841. 



The Florists' Journal, No. 47, from the Editor. 



The Pharmaceutical Journal and Transactions, Vol. 3, No. 3, 

 from the Editor. 



Archives du Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, T. 2, Li v. 4., T. 3. 

 Liv. 3. from the Museum, at Paris. 



October 3, 1843. 



ORDINARY MEETING. 



The following Candidate^ were elected Fellows of the Society : 



William Aldam, Esq., M.P., Leeds. 

 William Ainslie, Esq., Wood Hill, Ripley, Surrey. 

 The Rt. Hon. William, Earl of Mansfield, Kenwood, Hamp- 

 stead, Middlesex. 



