lviii PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



from the garden of A. Cushney, Esq., Pains Hill Park, Cobham, 

 dated 1774, on which the name " White Magdalen Peach " ap- 

 peared to be as sharply indented as at first. It is said, however, 

 that the lead of the present day, in consequence of its being purer 

 through desilverisation, would probably not last so long. 



Lilium auratum. — Mr. Wilson mentioned that a single bulb 

 of this plant in his garden had thrown up eight flowering stems. 

 When dug up it was found to have developed seven good, well- 

 formed and large bulbs. It grew in a good vegetable and loamy 

 soil. 



Wellingtonia with Fungi. — Specimens of fallen leaves and 

 shoots of this tree were sent from the gardens, Orton Hall, Peter- 

 borough, with numerous small white agarics growing upon them. 

 It proved to be Mycena hyemalis, Osbeck. 



Alder Leaf perforated. — Mr. Wilks showed a dead leaf of 

 Alder, very symmetrically perforated with two series of holes. It 

 was most probably due to a sudden chill on the expansion of the 

 buds in spring. A similar occurrence is not infrequent in Horse 

 Chestnut and other leaves from such a cause. 



Scientific Committee, December 13, 1892. 



Dr. M. T. Masters, F.E.S., in the Chair, and five members 



present. 



Garden Labels. — With reference to the value of leaden labels, 

 Dr. Masters observed that some of the same date (about 1770) 

 as of those described at the last meeting were still hanging on 

 the walls at G-unnersbury Park. Dr. Bonavia observed that in 

 India he had found porcelain or china labels, having the names 

 burnt in, to be most serviceable. 



Picea Morinda (Abies Smithiana). — Professor Church ob- 

 served that a fine tree existed at Shelsley Court, Worcestershire, 

 and was about 120 feet in height in 1849. This species was 

 introduced from Kamaon in 1818 by Dr. Govan, who sent cones 

 to the Earl of Hopetoun, and from which six seedlings were 

 raised (Veitch, Man., p. 79). Whether the Shelsley Court tree was 

 one of these, or had been introduced earlier, as seems probable, 

 is not known. 



