PROCEEDINGS AT MEETINGS OF THE 

 SOCIETY. 



October % 1849. (Regent Street.) 



Election. M. Jean Pierre Pescatore, 13, Rue St. Georges, 

 Paris. 



Awards. Large Silver Medal : To Mr. Fleming, gardener to 

 the Duke of Sutherland, at Trentham, for a magnificent 

 Ripley Queen Pine-apple. This beautiful fruit weighed 

 7 lbs. 10 ozs., and yet its crown was as small as it could 

 be, if the proportions of the fruit were to be preserved. 

 This is 11 ozs. heavier than the largest Queen Pine ever 

 exhibited to the Society on any former occasion, and the 

 fruit had all the appearance of being as good as it was hand- 

 some. It was grown on the Meudon plan, planted out in a 

 warm bed of soil. 



JBanksian Medals : To Mrs. Lawrence, F.H.S., for a collec- 

 tion of Stove and Greenhouse plants ; but more especially 

 for an immense bush of Crowea saligna. To the same for 

 nicely bloomed plants of Cattleya guttata, Oncidium Har- 

 risoni, Dendrobium formosum, and Phalsenopsis rosea. 



Certificates of Merit : To Messrs. Henderson, of Pine-apple 

 Place, for pretty bushes of Crowea saligna, elliptica, and 

 stricta. The latter was much better coloured than the 

 other two. To Messrs. Rollisson, of Tooting, for Ipomasa 

 limbata ; a species something in the way of Pharbitis Nil. 

 It had handsome rich purple flowers bordered with white. 

 To Mr. Bray, gardener to E. Lousada, Esq., Sidmouth, for 

 a well-grown Queen Pine-apple, weighing 5 lbs. 3 ozs. 

 To Mr. Brown, gardener at Wilton House, Salisbury, for 

 an example of the same kind of fruit, weighing 5 lbs. 1 oz. 

 To Mr. Rust, gardener to J. Maclaren, Esq., F.H.S., for 

 a dish of Black Hamburgh Grapes, large in the berry and 

 well coloured. They were stated to have been grown in a 

 lean-to greenhouse, without the aid of fire-heat. The vines 

 were planted about three years ago outside the house in 

 common garden* soil, and all the care taken of their roots 

 since had been a little rough dung put over them in winter, 



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