PROCEEDINGS. 



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Thorn ; a variety which bears well as a standard ; possessing 

 the flavour of Gansel's Bergamot, with less grittiness. 



Books Presented. 



The Botanical Register for March. From the Publishers. 



The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, No. 17, Part 2. From the Society. 



Prince's Manual of Roses (New York, 1846). Prince's Descriptive Catalogue of Roses, 



1846 and 1847. Catalogues of Rare and New Fruits, &c. From Messrs. Prince, of 



Flushing, Long Island, New York. 



March 16, 1847. (Regent Street.) 



Elections. Viscount Fielding ; George Hudson, Esq., M.P., 

 York ; Mrs. Cotton, East House, Terrace, Turnham Green ; 

 and Mr. Edward Pierce, Nurseryman, Yeovil, Somerset- 

 shire. 



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

 ney, for various Orchids, especially fine specimens of 

 Dendrobium macrophyllum and densiflorum. To Messrs. 

 Rollisson, of Tooting, for six varieties of Lycaste Skinneri, 

 all differing more or less from one another in size and 

 colour, and for a plant of the scarce Dendrobium Cam- 

 bridgeanum. 



Banksian Medals : To Messrs. Henderson, of Pine- Apple 

 Place, for the new yellow Dendrobium chrysotoxum. 

 To Mr. Glendinning, of Chiswick Nursery, for Hen- 

 freya scandens, a new white flowered climbing-plant from 

 Sierra Leone ; and to Mr. Mason, gardener to Sir John 

 Kennaway, Bart., Escott, Devon, for three Queen Pine- 

 Apples, weighing respectively 3 lbs. 14 oz., 3 lbs. 7 oz., and 

 3 lbs. 



Certificate of Merit to Mr. Nicholson, gardener to the Earl 

 of Orkney, Taplow, Bucks, for a seedling Camellia, named 

 " Countess of Orkney," a large fine flower, with a white 

 ground, striped with rosy pink. 



Novelties from the Society's Garden. Spiranthes cerina, 

 a singular terrestrial Orchid, sent from Guatemala by Mr. 

 Hartweg ; a new variety of Cyrtoehilum maculatum, with 

 larger and much handsomer flowers than those of the ori- 

 ginal, half the lip being yellow ; Epidendrum Skinneri, with 

 flowers which had been open ever since the end of October 

 last ; the hardy little Himalayan Primula (P. denticulata) ; 

 Mr. Fortune's Azalea obtusa ; and his double-flowered 

 Spiraea prunifolia. It was intimated that packets of White 

 Silesian Beet and Quinoa seeds would be ready in a few 

 days for delivery to all Fellows not in arrear of their Annual 

 Subscriptions. 



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