This was a most successful meeting, both as regards the number and value of the plants exhibited and the attendance of visitors. These meetings of the Society are undoubtedly increasing in interest and importance; and the council-room, which is not large, nor at all adapted for exhibiting plants and flowers to the best advantage, was filled with numerous collections of Orchids and other tender plants. A few prizes were offered by the Society for flowers and fruit.

Class 1

6 Chinese Primulas, distinct (open). Mr G. Goddard, gardener to H. Little, Esq., was first with finely grown and bloomed plants of white and different shades of red single varieties; Mr C. Edmunds, Hay's Nursery, second, and had in bis collection two plants of the double white.

Class 2

3 Dielytras, in bloom (open). The first prize was awarded to Mr W. Bull, King's Road, Chelsea, with very small plants of Dielytra spectabilis.

Class 3

6 Lycastes, in bloom (open). There was only one exhibitor in this class - Mr Denning, gardener to Lord Londesborough, Grimston Park, Tadcaster, York, who was awarded the first prize with fine healthy specimens of L. Skin-nerii, averaging 10 flowers to a plant.

Class 4

Dessert Apples, 3 dishes, distinct (open). In all 18 collections were staged, and amongst them many fine examples. Cox's Orange Pippin was very fine. The first prize was awarded to Mr Garland, gardener to Sir T. Dyke, Ack-laud, Bart., Killerton, Exeter, for Cox's Orange Pippin, Cornish Gilliflower, and Ribston Pippin; second, Mr A. Parsons, gardener to M. J. Blake, Esq., Danes-bury.

Class 5

Dessert Pears, 3 dishes, distinct (open). Seven collections were staged; Easter Beurre in some of the collections being of exceptionally fine quality. Mr Garland was again first with fine fruit of Easter Beurre, Winter Nelis, and Bergamotte d'Esperen; Mr G. T. Miles, gardener to Lord Carrington, Wycombe Abbey, coming in second. This collection contained a very fine dish of Knight's Monarch.

The subjects before the Fruit Committee were neither numerous nor important. The Galloway Pippin, sent to the last meeting, bad been cooked, and was said to be excellent; it accordingly received a first-class certificate as a first-class Kitchen-Apple. Mr Gilbert, of Burghley Park Gardens, sent a collection of round and kidney varieties of Potatoes, for which he received a special certificate; amongst them were particularly fine tubers of the Lapstone Kidney.

Many special certificates were awarded by the Floral Committee, and were too numerous to particularise. Mr Denning again staged a beautiful collection of Orchids, conspicuous in which was a grand specimen covered with flowers of Coelogyne cristata; several fine and distinct varieties of Cattleya Trian;e; Pil-umna fragrans with deliciously-scented white flowers, and classed by Mr Bateman amongst the Bridal Orchids. A first-class certificate was awarded to Mr Denning for this plant, and a special certificate was conferred upon the collection. Mr W. Bull, King's Road, Chelsea, had a very effective group of Palms, Cycads, Orchids, new and rare plants. A first-class certificate was awarded to a good and distinct species of Amaryllis named Gastronema flammea. The flowers, which were two in number, are crimson, with a slight tinge of orange; they are 3 inches in diameter, and are borne on a somewhat slender stem about 1 foot high. Mr Bull likewise received a special certificate for his collection.

Messrs Veitch of Chelsea sent a miscellaneous collection of plants, as well as collections of Cyclamens, and a number of plants of a good strain of Chinese Primulas. Amongst the plants sent by Messrs Veitch was a plant of Dendrobium crassinode, and a small plant with a fine spike, on which the individual flowers were very large, Odontoglossum Alexandria. Special awards were given to Messrs Veitch for the collections. Mr B. S. Williams of Holloway also exhibited a very good miscellaneous collection of Orchids, some fine Amaryllis, and a well-managed plant of Tillandsia Lindeni, the flowers of the most beautiful azure blue. Some cultivators of this plant say it does not flower freely; this one was throwing up five spikes, and on the centre spike were two fully-expanded flowers. A special certificate was also awarded to Mr Williams. Mr T. S. Ware Hale, Farm Nurseries, Tottenham, also received a special certificate for a basket of succulent plants and a basket containing an interesting collection of spring-flowering plants; Iris reticulata, a dwarf plant with deep-blue flowers, having the scent of Violets; and a dwarf pink with flowers approaching the florist standard, which would be useful for early forcing, named Mrs Pettifer. Mr J. Tomkins, Sparkhill Nurseries, Birmingham, received a first-class certificate for a very fine strain of Chinese Primulas named Princess Louise. The young flowers are pure white, and when fully expanded are tinged with blush; they are fully 2 inches in diameter, and of great substance.

Mr Green, gardener to W. W. Saunders, Esq., also received a first-class certificate for a new species of Agave from South Africa, A. Besseriana amoena; it has short glaucous leaves, with dark-coloured spines. Messrs Rolli-son & Sons, Tooting, also received a special certificate for a very fine collection of Orchids, and two fine plants of Lomaria Gibba crispa, a very distinct and interesting form, which seldom throws up fertile fronds; Davallia clavata, a very elegant Fern of small growth. Worthy of special mention, and which received a special award, was a very fine specimen of the green-leaved Aucuba, loaded with clusters of brilliant-coloured berries, from Mr Kinghorn, Sheen Nursery, Richmond.

Mr W. Paul, Nurseryman, Waltham Cross, sent a group of very fine specimen Camellias. They were in the finest possible health and vigour, and well flowered, leaving nothing to be desired except in the training they had received - only one plant had been allowed to grow in a natural manner, the shoots of the others having been bent and contorted to bring the plants into a compact shape. Mr Paul gave a short lecture on the Camellia, but owing to want of time he could not enter into details of culture. Mr Paul received a special certificate for his collection, which also comprised some beautiful plants with brilliant scarlet flowers of Correa cardinalis. There were collections of Hyacinths, Cyclamens, Primulas, and other things, which received special certificates, from other exhibitors. And last, though not least, a collection of plants from Messrs Veitch entered to compete for the prize offered to the exhibitor who succeeds in obtaining the greatest number of marks for plants illustrative of the phenomena of hybridisation.

They had specimens of Hybrid Nepenthes, Alocasia sedeni, Goodyera Veitchii, Cypripediums, and Rhododendron Princess-Royal. J. D.