PROCEEDINGS. 



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May 4, 1847. (Regent Street.) 

 Elections. Misses Emma and Eliza Elliotson, Clapham; 

 Sebastian Nash, Esq., 11, St. John's Wood Road; and 

 Henry Villebois, Esq., Marham House, Downham, Nor- 

 folk. 



Awards. Banksian Medals : To Mr. James Rigby, of Old 

 Brompton, for a very handsome specimen of Eriostemon 

 neriifolium ; and to Messrs. Weeks, King's Road, Chelsea, 

 for a fine Torenia asiatica. 



Certificates of Merit to Mr. Glendinning, Chiswick Nursery, 

 for a Daviesia, an odd -looking plant from the coast of New 

 Holland, with flowers handsome enough ; but with a singu- 

 lar foliage, if it may be so called, for it was rather an ex- 

 tension of the stem. This last operated in some measure as 

 a drawback on the beauty of the plant, giving it a bare 

 appearance. To Mr. Donald, gardener to Mrs. Lawrence, 

 of Ealing Park, for Vanda cristata, Dendrobium secundum, 

 and other Orchids ; and to Mr. Eyre, gardener to R. W. 

 Barchard, Esq., of Wandsworth, for a dish of large and 

 well-coloured Keens' seedling Strawberries. 



Novelties from the Society's Garden. A double yel- 

 low-flowered Cape Oxalis, a var. of Caprina ; and a plant of 

 Tropaeolum edule, an orange yellow flowered species, whose 

 roots form an indifferent kind of food to the natives of the 

 west coast of America. The latter deserve notice on account 

 of the manner in which it was trained. It was scrambling 

 over a branch of a larch, whose lateral twigs had been left 

 unpruned — a mode of training attended with little or no 

 trouble, and rendering the plant much more natural in ap- 

 pearance than the artificial contrivances usually adopted for 

 exhibiting the beauty of such things. 



Books Presented. 



Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York, Nos. 6 and 7, Vol. 4. 

 From the Lyceum. 



The Potato Disease and Bad Ventilation. By Franklin Coxvorthy, Esq. From 

 the Author. 



The Botanical Register for May. From the Publishers. 



Jardin de St. Petersbourg, 1846. From the Author, Dr. Fischer. 



May 8, 1847. (Garden Exhibition.) 



This exhibition had the misfortune to fall on a most unfavour- 

 able day. The dawn was wet, the morning damp, the forenoon 

 gloomy, midday cheerless, and the afternoon a deluge. This 

 was the more unfortunate, for the show was -excellent ; indeed, if 

 anything could have increased respect for the unrivalled skill of 



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