Ixxxiv PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
Cambridge, Mass. ; Mr. Charles Moore, Botanic Garden, 
Sydney, New South Wales; Chevalier E. Eenzi, Florence; M. 
Duchartre, Paris ; Baron Ferdinand von Mueller, Melbourne ; 
Dr. R. Scliomburgk, Adelaide, South Australia; and Dr. 
George King, Calcutta. 
The Assistant Secretary announced the Awards of the Fruit 
and Floral Committees, and made some observations on the 
principal objects of interest exhibited. The fine groups of 
Chrysanthemums contributed by Messrs. C. Turner and J. 
Veitch and Sons, were carefully selected assortments, and com¬ 
prised many remarkably good specimens. Mr. Wills showed 
the new Anthurium Gnstavii, having prominently ribbed, cordate 
leaves, 19 inches long, 15 inches broad ; it was procured through 
the St. Petersburg Botanic Garden. From Messrs. Yeitch 
and Son came another fine hybrid Orchid. Calanthe Sedeni, 
a cross between C. vestita and x C. Veitchii, regarding which 
Mr. Jennings observed that the new hybrid was certainly finer 
in colour than its parent, C. Veitcliii, which was raised by Mr. 
Dominy by crossing C. vestita with Limatodes rosea, the former 
being white, with a deep crimson spot, and the latter rosy ; 
the offspring of this union had since been again crossed with the 
former, and the result was before the Meeting—not a lighter 
colour such as might have been expected—but a much darker 
purple than any of its relations, caused, probably, by the greater 
development of the crimson spot in C. vestita, the colour 
becoming diffused all over the flower. Another fine plant, 
exhibited by the same firm, was Cypripedium Lawrenceanum , 
introduced from Borneo by Mr. F. W. Burbidge, with a very 
large, well-marked upper sepal, and handsome variegated 
foliage in the way of C. Hookeri . 
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE. 
Dr. Maxwell T. Masters, F.R.S., in the Chair. 
This, the first meeting since the recess, was well attended, 
and the objects brought before the committee were numerous 
and varied. 
Ancient Ploughing. —Mr. Worthington Smith exhibited water¬ 
colour sketches of ancient ploughing on Bryn-Glas. 
Physianthus albens as a Moth-trap .—Mr. MacLachlan alluded 
to the manner in which this plant retains moths which alight 
