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could not make any award to it. Messrs. Hooper and Co., Covent 

 Garden, sent a Melon called Sirdar, which was not of sufficient merit. 



Messrs. C. Lee and Son, Hammersmith, sent a basket of Henson's 

 Seedling Gooseberry. This variety received a first-class certificate 

 a few years ago, and still maintains the high opinion then formed 

 of it. A letter of thanks was awarded. Mr. E. P. Dixon of Hull 

 sent fruit of a new Raspberry derived from the Northumberland 

 Fillbasket. It is a large handsome fruit, but not superior in flavour 

 to other varieties in cultivation. 



Messrs. Rivers and Son of Sawbridgeworth sent nine varieties of 

 Cherries grown on pot trees in an orchard house; the finest of all 

 was Early Rivers, a variety certificated by the Committee some 

 years ago. Grosse Guigne Noire Luisante was also very fine. A 

 letter of thanks was awarded for the collection. Messrs. Rivers 

 also exhibited eighteen fruit trees in pots, which were so much 

 admired for the excellence of their cultivation that a silver gilt 

 Knightian medal was awarded. Mr. Stephen Castle, The Yineyard, 

 King's Lynn, sent a collection of Tomatoes, to which a cultural 

 commendation was awarded. Mr. Sydney Ford sent a collection of 

 Potatoes consisting of forty- three varieties, to which a bronze medal 

 was awarded. 



SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE. 



Pyrefhrum. — Mr. "W. G. Smith exhibietd a specimen more or 

 less fascicled and bearing a proliferous head — the so-called " hen and 

 chickens," not uncommon in the Daisy. 



Mr. Roberts, Penzance, forwarded specimens of the following 

 rare British plants : — Chara fragifera (living), Allium Schconoprasum 

 var. sibiricum, Orobanche rubra, and Erica vagans (dried) from the 

 Lizard, Cornwall. 



Trifolmm repens. — The Rev. G. Henslow exhibited a foliaceous 

 and proliferous specimen and called attention to the fact that 

 while the sepal-teeth grow out into petiolate leaves stipule-like 

 processes appeared at the top of the calyx-tube between the petioles, 

 seemingly proving that the tube is really receptacular and not of 

 calycine origin. 



Amucwiaimbricata. — Mr. Fletcher of Ottershaw forwarded male 

 cones of this plant. 



