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PROCEEDINGS. 



Awards. Knightian Medal: To Mr. Carton, gardener to 

 his Grace the Duke of Northumberland, at Syon, for a 

 plant of Litchi in fruit— believed to be the first ripened in 

 England ; and for a branch bearing two perfect fruit of 

 the common Nutmeg, which is perhaps the first time this 

 spice-tree has fruited in Europe. Mr. Carton stated that 

 this Nutmeg-plant was sent by Dr. Wallich from the Cal- 

 cutta Botanic Garden to Syon in 1835, and the Litchi in 

 1838; that in August last the male and female Nutmeg 

 trees were in flower for the first time, and that the plants 

 had been grown in Norwood loam without any mixture. 

 "The Litchi," he added, "flowered in February, and the 

 fruit was set in rather a cool peach-house, and afterwards 

 removed to the hothouse." The Nutmegs were about as 

 large as good -sized figs ; when they become ripe the outside 

 covering is burst into two halves, and displays to view a 

 reddish purple body something like a plum, within which 

 the true Nutmegs are enclosed. The reddish coloured 

 portion, after a certain preparation, becomes the Mace of 

 the shops. It was stated that a larger variety of Nutmeg 

 was in fruit at Syon. To Messrs. Rollisson, of Tooting, 

 for a nice collection of Orchids containing various Cat- 

 tleyas, a good Calanthe Masuca, a large mass of Miltonia 

 spectabilis, a Houlletia from Brazil, not distinct from 

 Brockelhurstiana, several Oncidia, Aerides quinquevulnera, 

 and other plants. To Mr. Mason, gardener to Sir John 

 Kennaway, Bart., of Escot, Devon, for four Queen Pine 

 Apples, weighing respectively 6 lbs. 11 oz., 5 lbs. 11 oz., 

 5 lbs. 5 oz., and 4 lbs. 8 oz. The heaviest, although some- 

 what ill formed at the base and scarcely ripe, was a very 

 remarkable specimen of good Pine culture, as its weight 

 will show. The others \vere well formed and ripe. 



Banksian Medal : To Mr. Plant, gardener to J. H. Schroder, 

 Esq., F.H.S., for Oncidium Lanceanum, a nice Cattleya 

 citrina, and Miltonia spectabilis. To Mr. Donald, gardener 

 to Mrs. Lawrence, F.H.S., for Cyrtoceras reflexum, Vinca 

 rosea, Angrsecum caudatum, Aerides quinquevulnera, and 

 other plants. To Messrs. Yeitch and Son, of Exeter, for 

 Pleroma elegans, a handsome cool greenhouse Melastomad, 

 with small shining deep-green leaves and large round 

 violet blossoms, which were stated to remain long in beauty 

 — a property seldom possessed by this class of plants. To 

 Mr. Fleming, gardener to his Grace the Duke of Suther- 

 land, at Trentham, for a Providence Pine Apple, large and 

 handsome, weighing 8 lbs. 12 oz. 



Certificate of Merit: To Mr. Stephen Hooker, of Brenchley, 



