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PROCEEDINGS. 



times during the next season : my maxim being little and 

 often. Beds intended to wear for several years, should rest 

 free from cutting every third or fourth year ; and if Giant 

 Asparagus is desired for the next year, the plants should be 

 excited to reach at least seven feet in height in the present 

 season. 



* ; Although we do not produce such enormous Asparagus 

 as some who make size alone a point, yet I may, I think, 

 venture to say that we produce as much of truly good 

 quality from a given quantity of land, as any garden in the 

 kingdom/' 



JBanksian Medal to Mr. Catleugh, Hans Place, Chelsea, for 

 Clerodendron splendens, well grown and flowered ; and To- 

 renia Asiatica, a small plant, but charmingly bloomed. 



Certificates of Merit to Messrs. Yeitch and Son, of Exeter, for a 

 new Fuchsia from Peru, resembling corymbiflora in habit ; 

 but producing singly from the axils of the leaves long vio- 

 let-tinged, rosy pink apetalous flowers, green at the ends. 

 It was found by Mr. William Lobb about 300 miles from 

 Lima. To Mr. Ambrose, of Battersea, for a seedling fancy 

 Pelargonium, named * ; Jenny Lind," a very pretty variety 

 raised from Shepard's M Queen Victoria." To Mr. Kendall, 

 gardener to W. H. P. Carew, Esq.. M.P., of Antonie, 

 Cornwall, for six Madras Citrons; and to Mr. Mills, of 

 Gunnersbury, for a Cantaloup Melon, weighing 5 lb. 5 oz. 



Novelties from the Societys Garden. Mr. Fortune's 

 Lysimachia Candida ; his Rhynchospermum jasminoides, a 

 handsome white-flowered greenhouse plant, Indigofera de- 

 cora, and Campanula nobilis, together with Cereus crenatus, 

 a white-flowered species rivalling in beauty the Night- 

 blowing Cereus, various Orchids, and other plants. 



Books Presented. 



The A gTicultural Magazine and Farmer's Journal for April and May. From the 



Editor. 



Tne Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, No. 10. From the Society. 



The PreTention and Treatment of Disease in the Potato and other Crops" Hv John 



Parkin, M.D. From the Author. 

 The Botanical Register for June. From the Publishers. 



Transactions of the Horticultural Socierv of Berlin, VoL 18, Part 2. From the 

 Society. 



June 19, 1847. (Gardex Exhibition.) 

 Of this exhibition as a whole, words are wanted to speak of it 

 as it deserved. Not that any particular plants were to be re- 

 garded as superior to others which have been seen in the same 

 gardens, but because of the entire absence of bad cultivation. 

 It is doubtful whether the quickest eye could have detected a 



