EXTRACTS FROM PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 



AND 



MISCELLANEOUS MATTER. 



January 20, 1866. — A fine bunch of English-grown Dates was 

 sent by Mr. Gr. Eairbairn from the gardens at Syon House, in 

 which they had been raised and ripened. A prize of 20s. was 

 awarded. 



January 23. — A fine display of plants and flowers was made, the 

 most important collections being furnished by Mr. Bull of Chelsea, 

 and Mr. Veitch of Chelsea, — the former contributing a very large 

 collection of miscellaneous new or rare plants ; and the latter a 

 very handsome group of Orchids, consisting chiefly of varieties of 

 Lycaste Skinneri. 



Mr. Bull's collection consisted of sixty-eight plants, including 

 several large specimens — as, for example, an Orange-tree, two Tree 

 Eerns, together with Palms, Yuccas, and Dracsenas. Among the 

 interesting though less bulky objects, the following may be particu- 

 larly mentioned: — Pandanus ornatus, a species, of elegant drooping 

 habit, with narrowish dark-green glossy leaves margined with short 

 white spines ; it was considered to be a very pretty subject for 

 room- decoration, especially in the small state. Herrania pahnata, 

 an erect-growing, single-stemmed, Aralia-like plant, with pale- 

 green, three- or four-parted, palmately divided leaves, the leaflets of 

 attenuated lance-shaped form and coriaceous texture ; an elegant- 

 habited plant belonging to the order Byttneriaceae. Seclam aizoi- 

 deum variegatum, a neat variegated greenhouse succulent. Sslagi- 

 nella Martensii albo variegata, a variety of this pretty stove Lyco- 

 pod freely variegated with white. Tacca pinnatifida, with tripar- 

 tite leaves, the branches divided into pinnatifid decurrent leaflets. 

 JBeperomia arifolia, one of the variegated plants introduced for the 

 Society by Mr. "Weir. Dielylra spectabilis alba, with pure-white 



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