EXTRACTS OF PROCEEDINGS. 



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Creeper, it hangs in long festoons to the ground. The superficial 

 urea covered by the part on the hedge alone is about 150 square 

 yards. The remarkable feature in the case is the enormous and 

 vigorous growth the Clematis has made, and yet it is in ground 

 with only a foot or two of earth over fine red gravel, constituting 

 the uppermost and most ancient of the gravel beds of the 

 Thames, there being, as far as is known, not a trace of calca- 

 reous matter in the soil. Nevertheless, the plant is usually 

 described as a chalk-loving species. At all events, it is found 

 abundantly on the chalk of Kent, the oolitic limestones near 

 Cheltenham, and the carboniferous limestone near Bristol, <tc. 

 Mr. Burbidge suggested that it was just possible, growing so 

 close to the house, that there might have been buried there a 

 quantity of old mortar, kc. The ground, however, was lately 

 excavated for a drain within 4 and 10 feet, when nothing but 

 red gravel was exposed. 



GENERAL MEETING. 

 December 10, 1889. 

 T. B. Haywood, Esq., in the Chair. 



Elections. 



Fellows, 20.— C. F. Barker, Mrs. Bovill, Mrs. Bernard E. 

 Brodhurst, Edmund T. Chamberlain, Norman Cook son, 

 Thomas A. Cotton, Walter James Green, Charles Holden, 

 A. Wells Ingram, Mrs. Kemp-Welch, James Lake, R. Veitch 

 Mather, Com. -General H. E. Moore, John Brandram Morgan, 

 George Newman, Frank Rich, Ronald A. Scott, David Storrie, 

 S. Stubbs, Robert Willan. 



FLORAL COMMITTEE. 



W. Marshall, Esq., in the Chair, and eleven members present. 

 Awards Recommended:- 



Award of Merit. 



To Carnation Winter Cheer (votes, unanimous), from Messrs. 

 J. Veitch & Sons, Chelsea. A very free-blooming, useful variety, 

 bearing neatly formed scarlet flowers. 



To Chrysanthemum Mrs. Alpheus Hardy (votes, unanimous), 

 from Messrs. Pitcher & Manda, 139 Barry Road. Dulwich. 

 (See Awards at Chrysanthemum Conference, p. exxxii.) 



