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six guineas,' the following words, viz. : ' the admission-fee to be 

 paid by each Fellow shall be two guineas.' " 



The Meeting then proceeded to ballot for the repeal of the 

 present By-Law, which was carried by 7 Ayes to 1 No. A 

 Ballot having been next taken for the substituting of the 

 amended By-Law, the Chairman declared it to be carried by 

 7 Ayes to 1 No. 



Awards. Knightian Medal : To Mr. Jones, Gardener to 

 Sir J. Guest, Bart., F.H.S., for five beautifully ripened 

 Ripley Queen Pine-Apples with small crowns, the heaviest 

 weighing 6 lbs. 4 ozs., and the lightest 5 lbs. ^ oz. 



Banksian Medal : To Mr. Spencer, Gardener to the Mar- 

 quess of Lansdowne, at Bowood, for a long, conical, Enville- 

 shaped Pine-Apple, named Black Prince, a red coloured 

 kind, about which little at present is known. It weighed 

 11 lbs. 11 ozs. ; but Mr. Spencer stated that, under better 

 cultivation, this kind of Pine- Apple might be expected to 

 produce fruit much heavier than the one sent, which was 

 the production of a small plant, and but imperfectly 

 swelled. It was not cut up, and therefore no opinion of its 

 quality could be formed. To Mr. Ferguson, of Stowe, 

 for finely swelled and coloured Peaches and Nectarines, 

 stated to have been ripened under glass without the aid of 

 fire heat. To Mr. Chater, of Saffron Walden, for a 

 beautiful collection of Hollyhocks, in the shape of spikes 

 and single blooms. The kinds consisted of Attraction, 

 light ground, beautifully veined ; Atrosanguinea, dark 

 crimson ; Black Prince, one of the darkest of Hollyhocks ; 

 Cocci nea, bright red ; delicata, French white ; formosa, 

 claret ; Magnum bonum, maroon ; Model of Perfection, 

 white ; Napoleon, red and buff ; purpurea elegans, purple ; 

 Queen, blush ; rosea grandiflora, pink ; improved varieties 

 of rosea alba, Snowball and Wellington ; sulphurea per- 

 fecta, sulphur ; Comet, ruby red ; pulchella, exquisitely 

 formed rose; Mr. C. Baron, delicate salmon; Elegans, 

 blush; and Commander-in-chief; the latter with a flower- 

 ing spike at least 3 feet in length. The same grower also 

 produced some nice Seedlings, among which was a kind 

 named Walden Gem, an improvement on the beautiful 

 variety called Comet in point of colour. To Mr. Franklin, 

 Gardener to Mrs. Lawrence, F.H.S., for a small collection 

 of Orchids, consisting of Angrsecum caudatum, Cattleya 

 crispa, Oncidium incurvum, Burlingtonia Candida, Den- 

 drobium formosum, Aerides quinquevulnera, Miltonia spec- 



