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PROCEEDINGS, 



ment which it requires is such as is necessary to other cereal 

 crops ; it is climate alone which determines its fitness for a 

 given locality ; it must have a proper amount of heat, and 

 more especially security against too low a temperature. 

 The susceptibility of Maize in regard to climate appears 

 to me to be exactly analogous to that of the Vine, and I 

 doubt the wisdom of attempting to cultivate it on a large 

 scale in places where Grapes do not regularly ripen." 

 Messrs. Lawrence, of Parliament Street, contributed 

 specimens of zinc labels, which looked as if they would 

 prove useful. 



Novelties from the Society's Garden. The Sweet-scented 

 Epidendrum ceratistes, and Oncidium varicosum. 



Books Presented. 



Memoires de la Societe de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Geneve, tome 12, 

 Premiere Partie, et Premier et Second Supplement au tome 12. From the So- 

 ciety. 



Paper on the Destructive Powers of the Scolytus Destructor and Larva of the Cossuu 



Ligniperda. By Dr. Cox. From the Royal Botanic Society of London. 

 The Athenaeum for October. From the Editor. 



December 4, 1849. (Regent Street.) 



Elections. His Grace the Duke of Hamilton, Easton Park, 

 Woodbridge ; S. R. Heseltine, Esq., Chase Side, Enfield ; 

 T. Henry, Esq., Bush Hill, Edmonton. Also as Home 

 Corresponding Members, Mr. H. Bailey, gardener to G. 

 Harcourt, Esq., Nuneham ; Mr. R. Errington, gardener to 

 Sir P. G. Egerton, Bart., Oulton ; Mr. T. Ingram, gar- 

 dener to Her Majesty at Frogmore ; and Mr. A. Toward, 

 gardener to Her Majesty at Osborne. 



Awards. Knightian Medal : To J. H. Schroder, Esq., F.H.S., 

 for 3 charmingly bloomed plants of the rosy purple Barkeria 

 Skinneri, each plant bearing from 12 to 15 flower-spikes, 

 the graceful Two-lobed Augrsecum, and a nice plant of 

 Vanda tricolor. 



Banksian Medal : To Mrs. Lawrence, F.H.S., for well- 

 managed specimens of Vanda Suavis, V. tricolor, and Sac- 

 colabium denticulatum. 



Certificates of Merit : To Mr. Munnock, gardener to E. 

 Druce, Esq., F.H.S., for an exceedingly well -cultivated 

 Cypripedium insigne, on which there were 27 perfect blos- 

 soms. To Messrs. Jackson, of Kingston, for three varieties 

 of the beautiful Lselia autumnalis. To the same, for a spe- 

 cimen of the well-known but scarce Vriesia speciosa, bearing 

 a long, feather-like spike of crimson floral leaves, in which 



