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PROCEEDINGS. 



low-sided or double pot. Mr. Stuart showed a new kind 

 of Garden-roller, which was reported to effect a perfectly 

 level surface on walks. It consists of two common iron 

 rollers placed in a frame, with a small horizontal cylinder 

 moving on the walk between them. 

 Novelties from the Society's Garden. Niphsea rubida, 

 a worthless species, and Mr. Fortune's blue autumn -flower- 

 ing Aconite (Aconitum autumnale), a very handsome 

 kind. 



Books Presented. 



Monographia Generum Aloes et Mesembryanthemi. By His Serene Highness the 



Prince of Salm-Dijck. From the Author. 

 Flora Batava. No. CLIX. From His Majesty the King of Holland. 

 Catalogue of the Calcutta Public Library. From the Society. 



Miscellanea Botanica. Nos. VI., VII., and VIII. By Professor Antonio Bertoloni. 

 From the Author. 



Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Vol. XVI., Part 5, Vol. XIX., 

 Part 1 ; and Proceedings of the Society, Vol. II., Parts 33 and 34. From the 



Society. 



Transactions of the Horticultural Society of Berlin. Vol. XIX., Part 2. From the 

 Society. 



The Athenaeum for September. From the Editor. 



November 6, 1849. (Regent Street.) 



Mr. H. Dobree, C.M.H.S., of Beau Sejour, Guernsey, com- 

 municated the following fact : — 



" On the occasion of our last Fruit Show, a Chaumontel Pear 

 of perfect shape, and of the remarkable weight of 2 lbs. 4^ ozs. 

 English weight, was exhibited by my neighbour Mr. T. A. Cor- 

 bin, and subsequently transmitted by him to Sir George Grey, 

 with a request that it might be respectfully presented to Her 

 Majesty. You may possibly recollect that I some years since 

 transmitted a Chaumontel Pear to the Society, of the weight of 

 29^ ozs. English weight, being the heaviest which had hitherto 

 been produced in any of our islands, and of which, if I mistake 

 not, a model is to be seen in the Society's Museum. It may not 

 prove uninteresting to know that the Pear produced by Mr. 

 Corbin grew on a Quince-stock, and that no artificial means 

 were employed to increase the weight of the fruit, of which 

 there was in addition a fair crop on the tree itself ; the soil is a 

 deep strong brown loam, which is occasionally manured." 



Awards. Knightian Medal : To Messrs. Loddiges, of Hack- 

 ney, for a collection of Orchids, but more especially for a 

 specimen of the rare Oncidium oblongatum, which is 

 one of the handsomest of the small bright yellow-flowered 

 kinds. 



Banksian Medals : To Mrs. Lawrence, F.H.S., for Cymbi- 

 dium giganteum, the Gongora-like Cycnoches barbatum, and 



