PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



interest and value of these regular bi-monthly meetings and the 

 lectures so kindly delivered thereat ; and they beg to express in 

 their own name, and in that of all Fellows of the Society, 

 their very best thanks to all those gentlemen who have so 

 kindly contributed, either by the exhibition of plants, fruits, 

 flowers, or vegetables, or by the reading of papers, to the success 

 of these meetings. 



The papers read at these bi-monthly meetings, all of which 

 have been published in the Journal, are as follows : — 



March 12. " On Saxifrages," by Mr. J. G. Baker, F.E.S., F.L.S. ; 



"Culture of Saxifrages," by Mr. George Paul; "Saxi- 

 frages," by Mr. Reuthe. 

 March 26. "Dutch Hyacinths," by Heer A. E. Barnaart; 



" Culture of Hyacinths," by Heer J.H. Kersten ; " Hyacinths 



in England," by Mr. James Douglas. 

 April 9. " The Narcissus," by Mr. F. W. Burbidge, M.A., 



F.L.S., M.R.I.A. ; " Seedling Daffodils," by Rev. G. H. 



Engleheart, M.A. ; "Portuguese Narcissi," by Mr. A. W. 



Tait, F.L.S. 



April 23. " The Auricula," by Rev. F. D. Horner, M.A. 



May 14. " On Irises," by Professor Michael Foster, Sec. R.S. 



June 11. " Orchid Culture," by Mr. H. J. Veitch, F.L.S. 



June 25. " The Strawberry," by Mr. A. F. Barron ; " Strawberry 

 Culture for Market," by Mr. G. Bunyard. 



July 2. " Roses," by the Very Rev. the Dean of Rochester, 

 D.D. ; " Pruning Roses," by the Rev. A. Foster-Melliar, 

 M.A. ; " Groups of Roses," by Mr. William Paul, F.L.S. ; 

 "Stocks for Roses," by Mr. E. Mawley, Sec. N.R.S. ; 

 "Roses since 1860," by Mr. George Paul; "Decorative 

 Roses," by Mr. T. W. Girdlestone, M.A., F.L.S. ; " On Rosa 

 polyantha as a Stock," by Mons. Viviand-Morel. 



July 3. " The Botany of Roses," by Mr. J. G. Baker, F.R.S., 

 F.L.S.; "Rose Hybridisation," by the Right Hon. Lord 

 Penzance; "A New Classification of Roses," by Professor 

 F. Crepin. 



July 23. " The Florist's Carnation," by Mr. Shirley Hibberd. 

 August 13. "Peaches and Nectarines," by Mr. Francis Rivers. 



