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PROCEEDINGS. 



example of the Sweet Trichopil (T. suavis), a charming 

 species from Costa Rica, with broad, thin pseudo-bulbs, 

 and large leathery leaves. The flowers emit the most deli- 

 cate odour of Hawthorn. When well grown they are full 

 5 inches in diameter, delicate in texture, nearly white, with 

 a few slight stains of red on the sepals and petals, and a 

 great convolute lip richly spotted with clear rose, which, it 

 is said, becomes in the natural climate of the species a rich 

 and brilliant red. It is cultivated like Lycaste Skinneri 

 and similar terrestrial Orchids. To Mr. Williams, Gar- 

 dener to C. B. Warner, Esq., F.H.S., for Coelogyne cristata 

 and the Long-tailed Cypripedium (C. caudatum). To Mr. 

 Glendinning, F.H.S., for a Seedling Heath, apparently a 

 cross between E. Hartnelli and E. aristata. To Mr. 

 Mitchell, of Kemp Town, Brighton, for well-ripened 

 bunches of Black Hamburgh Grapes. 



Miscellaneous Subjects of Exhibition. A nice light- 

 coloured Seedling Camellia, named Countess of Ellesmere, 

 from Messrs. Jackson, of Kingston. A variety of Gled- 

 stane's Azalea, called Magnifica, from Mr. Ambrose, of 

 Batrersea. Gloxinia, " Frederick Leming," and several 

 small plants of Cantua bicolor, which were sent to show 

 that it will bloom in a very small state, from Mr. Hender- 

 son, of St. John's Wood. Epimedium pinnatum, and a 

 double-flowered, dark purple Auricula, from Messrs. Rol- 

 lisson. A fine branching spike of Ansellia africana, from 

 Chats worth. This Ansellia was stated to have been in 

 blossom in the middle of January last, and to have con- 

 tinued in flower up to the present time. Mr. Higgs, Gar- 

 dener to J. Barchard, Esq., F.H.S., had good examples of 

 forced Keens' Seedling Strawberries ; Mr. Halliman, of 

 Kensington, some glass fruit-protectors ; and Mr. Brown, 

 specimens of his patent fumigator, whose utility is now 

 universally recognized. 



Novelties from the Society's Garden. Dielytra specta- 

 bilis ; Nuttallia cerasiformis, a green-flowered California!! 

 shrub of no beauty ; and Boronia tetrandra, a species in the 

 way of B. pinnata, and sold in the Nurseries under the 

 name of B. microphylla. 



Books presented. 



Verhandlungen der k. k. Landwirthschafts Gesellschaft in Wien, Vol. VI., Part L 



From the Agricultural Society of Vienna. 

 The Athenaeum for March. From the Editor. 



