EXTRACTS FROM PROCEEDINGS. 
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FEUIT COMMITTEE. 
Messrs. Carter offered a prize for Beet, including their Perfec- 
tion, which was taken by Mr. W. Gr. Pragnell, who also won their 
First Prize for Onions, the second being given to Mr. Cross, 
gardener to J. D. Lousada, Esq. A Eirst-class Certificate was 
awarded to Mr. Peasgood, Stamford, for a seedling Apple, named 
Peasgood's Nonsuch, of the Blenheim Orange type. A Cultural 
Commendation was awarded to Mr. King, gardener to J. Baum, 
Esq., for Pot Vines. Prizes for Tomatoes were taken by Mr. 
Pragnell, Mr. George, Mr. Earley, and Mr. Eoberts. Hathaway's 
Excelsior, an introduction from America, came from Chiswick, 
certainly the finest type yet seen. Prizes for Dessert Apples were 
taken by Mr. E. Clarke and Mr. Earley, Mr. Donaldson taking the 
first in Pears. 
GENEBAL MEETING. 
W. W. Saunders, Esq., F.E.S., in the Chair. 
Professor Dyer stated that Amorphophallm campanulatus is culti- 
vated in India, as in Coromandel, for the starch in its curious 
root-stock. The so-called Asmah Vegetable Marrows were Lage- 
naria vulgaris, which Mr. Berkeley had more than once pointed 
out as suspicious and sometimes poisonous. He then made some 
remarks on the Potato disease, calling attention to the present state 
of our knowledge on the subject, as also to what is known about 
the Phylloxera. 
The Chairman stated that as soon as the flowers of Amorphophallus 
have thrown out their objectionable odour, the temperature of the 
spathe rises some 4^ or 5^*. 
October 2, 1872. 
FLORAL COMMITTEE. 
Mr. Bull obtained a First-class Certificate for Dracaena gloriosa, 
for Macrozamia pulchra, for Helminthostachys verticillata an ally of 
Ophioglossum, and for CEnocarpus dealhatus^ a glaucous-leaved 
