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Pine in British Honduras as being very hard, and said that many 

 colonies were now importing soft wood, not that their own forests 

 were destroyed, but because the timber yielded by them was too 

 hard to be used profitably. M. de Vilmorin pointed out the 

 difference between the typical Pinus inops and the specimen 

 exhibited. 



GENEEAL MEETING. 



April 8, 1890. 



D. Morris, Esq., F.L.S. (Treasurer R.H.S.), in the Chair. 

 Elections. 



Fellows, 13. — Lord Auckland, T. C. Barnett, Lord Alfred 

 Churchill, G. C. Churchill, Major Thomas Brett Cowburn, Henry 

 F. Moore, Thomas Pritchard Newman, George Smailes, G. 

 Frederick Strawson, Alfred B. Testrail, Anthony Waterer, T. 

 Welham, John Wood. 



A paper was read : — " On Spring Flower Gardening," by Mr. 

 W. Ingram, F.R.H.S., Belvoir. 



FLORAL COMMITTEE. 



W. Marshall, Esq., in the Chair, and seventeen members 



present. 



Awards Recommended :— 



Silver Banksian Medal. 



To Mr. W. Rumsey, The Nurseries, Waltham Cross, for a 

 group of Roses in pots, comprising Lady Mary Fitzwilliam, 

 Climbing Niphetos, Duke of Edinburgh, Sunset, and Souvenir 

 de Paul Neyron. 



To Mr. J. Walker, Ham Common, Surrey, for a fine collec- 

 tion of Daffodils. Amongst the list of varieties were Mary 

 Anderson, C. J. Backhouse, Henry Irving, Emperor, Horsfieldii, 

 Cernuus, Sir Watkin, and Lady Watkin. 



