XXxiV PROCEEDINGS OP THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
March 5 , 1878 . 
ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING. 
Lord Alfred S. Churchill, Vice-President, in the Chair. 
The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 
Elections.— Right Hon. Acton S. Ayrton, Lady Beauchamp, 
Hon. Isabel Calthorpe, Harold L. Coffin, Lt.-Gen. Rudolph de Salis, 
C.B., H. G.Guy Elliott, Bartle G. Goldsmid, Philip Capel Hanbury, 
James Henry, Mrs. Huggins, William Gerard Lysley, Lieut.-Gen. Sir 
Thomas McMahon, Mrs. Nangle, Mrs. Simpson, Sir Julius Vogel, 
K.C.M.G, Rev. B. Winthrop. 
One Guinea Members Admitted.—Miss Florence Williams, J. 
Rose, 
The Awards of the Floral Committee were announced, and 
remarks were made by the Assistant Secretary, explanatory of some 
of the most interesting plants exhibited. 
Colonel R. Trevor Clarke read a paper on the Cultivation of 
the Fig as a Standard in the open air. This paper is published in 
the Journal of the Society. 
The Meeting adjourned, 
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE. 
Sir Joseph D, Hooker, K.C.S J., C.B., Pres. R.S., in the Chair, 
Phyllody of Calyx.—Dr. M. C. Cooke exhibited a remarkable 
specimen of the common Primrose, which had been found growing 
wild in the neighbourhood of Highgate, in which the calyx was 
completely leafy. It was found growing in a clay soil, and Sir 
Joseph Hooker remarked that whenever such specimens were 
discovered they were almost invariably found in a clay soil. The 
plant had been sent to Dr. Cooke by Mr. Coomber, of Highgate. 
Tulip a Gesneriana, var. Schrenhii. —Mr. Elwes showed flowers 
of this very early blooming species from Russia. The bulbs were 
not planted till November, so that it may be considered very much 
the earliest flowering of all Tulips. Also T. stellata , from the 
