PROCEEDINGS 
OP THE 
LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 
Ordinary Meeting, October 2nd, 1877. 
Rev. William Gaskell, M.A., in the Chair. 
“ A Case of Flowering of Chaemerops Fortunei (Hook) at 
Alderley,” by Arthur W. Waters, F.G.S. 
The fact of Chaemerops Fortnnei (Hook) flowering so far 
north as near Manchester seems to me to be of sufficient 
interest to be worth mentioning to the Society. 
This species, indigenous in Japan, is the most hardy of 
all the palms. I find that several have flowered in the 
open air in the neighbourhood of London without any 
protection ; but for it to flower so far north as this is 
probably very uncommon, though I hear it has done so at 
York. 
The plant in question, in my mother’s garden at Alderley 
Edge, has been there now about 25 years, and has never 
been covered up in winter. It is about 6ft. high, and has 
always seemed very healthy ; but this summer, for the first 
time, threw out a racemose male flower. The position of 
our palm is well sheltered from east and north winds. The 
garden generally is extremely well protected, so that many 
of the rarer conifers and other trees and shrubs are scarcely 
to be surpassed for their fine growth in the neighbourhood 
of Manchester, thus showing that the palm has grown 
Proceedings — Lit. & Phil. Soc. — Vol. XYIL— No. 1— -Session 1877-8. 
