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PROCEEDINGS. 



N.B. — The Judges desired on this occasion to express their 

 opinion that the appearance of woody Plants was greatly injured 

 by the excessive use of stakes, as employed in some collections. 



Jane 1, 1847. (Regent Street.) 



Elections. Lady Elizabeth Reynell, Abbotsford ; Major- 

 General Sir Adolphus Dalrymple, 129, Park Street, Gros- 

 venor Square, and Delrew House, Aldenham, Herts ; and 

 Hamilton H. Fulton, Esq., 8, Great Queen Street, West- 

 minster. 



Awards. Large Silver Medal to Messrs. Veitch and Son, of 

 Exeter, for Rhododendron javanicum, a new species intro- 

 duced by Mr. Thomas Lobb from Java, and extremely 

 handsome both as respects the beauty of its foliage and the 

 brilliancy of its reddish-orange blossoms. This was the 

 imported plant, small and weak from travelling ; though 

 beautiful in its present state, it was much inferior to the native 

 specimens, and certainly equally inferior to what the plant 

 may be expected to become. It was found on Mount Salak, 

 at elevations from 2C00 to 3000 feet, and in this country 

 will possibly prove about as hardy as a Chinese Azalea. 

 To the same, for Browallia Jamesoni, found in woods near 

 Molitore, province of Cuenca, in Peru, at an elevation 

 of 6000 feet. The plant exhibited was a shrub some 2$ 

 feet in height, covered with small shining leaves, and round 

 orange flowers about the size of a shilling. It proves to be 

 an extremely gay-looking greenhouse shrub, quite new, and 

 with which we have nothing of the kind at all comparable. 

 To Messrs. Loddiges, of Hackney, for a nice collection of 

 Orchids, containing a spotless variety of Dendrobium san- 

 guinolentum, five species of Aerides, three Saccolabiums, 

 and other interesting plants. 



Knightian Medal to Mr. Craggs, gardener to Sir Thomas Ac- 

 land, Bart., of Killerton. Devon, for a fine bundle of Aspa- 

 ragus, consisting of 100 heads, which weighed 14 lbs. 11 oz. 

 This was green Asparagus, eatable almost to the very ba>e. 

 It was mentioned to have been grown after the manner 

 described by Mr. Craggs at p. 39, vol. ii. A bundle of 

 Asparagus from Mr. Errington, gardener to Sir P. G. 

 Egerton, Bart., M.P., at Oulton Park, was also submitted 

 to the Society's notice, and along with it the following me- 

 morandum respecting its treatment. 



" The cultivation of this valuable esculent being carried 

 out with a very considerable amount of success here, perhaps 



