PROCEEDINGS. 



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July 13, 1850. (Garden Exhibition.) 



The last exhibition in the season has hitherto generally been 

 found much inferior to its predecessors : plants get out of con- 

 dition ; the races which decorate May and June fade and perish 

 in July ; gardeners have less leisure, and zeal begins to flag ; 

 but on this occasion there was such an assemblage of beautiful 

 plants as no man ever saw before in July. Orchids were nu- 

 merous and fine ; Cape Heaths and Stove and Greenhouse Plants 

 possessed all the beauty and freshness of May ; cut Roses were 

 abundant ; and the Victoria Water Lily from Syon, in the form of 

 a beautiful flower and two magnificent leaves, each 5 feet 10 inches 

 in diameter, was the admiration of every one. Fruit was plenti- 

 ful, and in many cases very fine ; but the unripe state of some 

 of the grapes enabled inferior specimens to beat them. The 

 beauty of the grounds of Chiswick House, thrown open to the 

 meeting by the noble President of the Society, and a delicious 

 day, permitted 7970 visitors, exclusive of exhibitors and persons 

 officially employed, to pass the afternoon in great enjoyment. 



The Award was as follows : — 



The Large Gold Medal: To Mr. Cole, Gardener to H. 

 Colyer, Esq., of Dartford, for a collection of twenty Stove 

 and Greenhouse Plants. To Mr. Mylam, Gardener to S. 

 Rucker, Esq., jun., F.H.S., for twenty species of Exotic 

 Orchids. 



The Gold Knightian Medal : To Mr. May, Gardener to 

 Mrs. Lawrence, F.H.S., for a collection of twenty Stove 

 and Greenhouse Plants. To Mr. Green, Gardener to Sir 

 E. Antrobus, Bart., F.H.S., for a collection of fifteen Stove 

 and Greenhouse Plants. To Mr. Williams, Gardener to 

 C. B. Warner, Esq., F.H.S., for twenty species of Exotic 

 Orchids. 



The Gold Banksian Medal: To Messrs. Fraser, of Lea 

 Bridge Road, Essex, for a collection of twenty Stove and 

 Greenhouse Plants. To Mr. Carson, Gardener to W. F. 



G. Farmer, Esq., F.H.S., for a collection of fifteen Stove 

 and Greenhouse Plants. To Mr. Croxford, Gardener to 



H. H. Barnes, Esq., of Stamford Hill, for a collection of 

 ten Stove and Greenhouse Plants. To Messrs. Rollisson, 

 of Tooting, for fifteen species of Exotic Orchids. To 

 Mr. Blake, Gardener to J. H. Schroder, Esq., F.H.S., for 

 ten species of the same. To Mr. Smith, Gardener to W. 

 Quilter, Esq., of Norwood, for ten varieties of Cape Heath. 

 To Mr. Epps, F.H.S., for the same. 



