188 



STATE POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



2\o. JS'ame of Rose. Class. 



o.">. M'me Chas. Crapelet. i H. P. 



66. Baron de Bonstetten. H. P. 



07. M'meVidot H. P. 



68. Thomas Mills H. P. 



69. Jules Margottin H. P. 



70. M'me G. Schwartz II. P. 



71. Due de Kohan II. P. 



7:2. Antoine Ducher,./ II. P. 



7:5. Auguste Rigotard,.?— II. P. 



74. Princess Mary of Cambridge,.;' II. P. 



75. Mons. E. Y. Teas H. P. 



76. Sir Garnet Wolseley. II. P. 



77. Rev. J. B. M. Cannon, k II. P. 



78. Madame Hippolyte Jaiuain, Tc. II. P. 



79. Lord Macauley, k II. P. 



SO. Comtesse C. de Chabrillant, k II. P. 



81. Madame Beavy T. 



82. Richard Wallace, I II. P. 



83. Star of Waltham, I II. P. 



54. Mareehal Vaillant, I H. P. 



55. Celine Fonestier, I. X. 



86. Miss Hassard II. P. 



Total 



Age. liaiser. Ko. Votes 



Fontaine... 12 



1871. Liabaud 11 



11 



1873. E. Verdier 10 



1S53. Margottin 10 



1871. Schwartz 10 



Levigne 9 



1SG6. Ducher 9 



1871. Schwartz 9 



1SG6. Paul & Son 9 



1875. E. Verdier S 



1874. Cranston 8 



1874. Turner 8 



1871. Garcon 8 



1803. W.Paul 8 



1S59. Marest S 



Gnillot Pere 8 



1871. Levigne.. S 



1S74. W.Paul 8 



1SG1. Lecompte S 



1S59. Andre Leroy 8 



1874. Turner 7 



In the above list, the names followed successively by the same italic letter 

 (a a, 1) I), etc.) received each an equal number of votes, and therefore rank as 

 ■of equal merit. H. B. Eiavanger. 



Rochester, N. Y. 



THE COLOR AND FRAGRANCE OF FLOWERS. 



The chemical transformation in the bodies of living plants, by which the 

 most manifold and brilliant colors are produced, are almost entirely unknown 

 to us. We see a flower pass through the entire scale of red, from the softest 

 pink to the darkest purple brown, but can give no explanation whatever of the 

 mysterious process. "We know, for instance, the light of the sun greatly in- 

 fluences the color of living plants, and experience has taught us, that in most 

 cases, its total exclusion is equivalent to the absence of every color, in other 

 words, that it produces white leaves and blossoms. However, this rule is by no 

 means without exception, as many roots, the roots of alcanna, for instance, 

 although buried in the soil, and completely excluded from the rays of the sun, 

 possess a strong and vivid color. We can explain neither the rule nor the ex- 

 ■ception ; on the contrary, we know that, as far as lifeless matter is concerned, 

 mineral or vegetable colors are weakened, and gradually destroyed rather than 

 enhanced, by the action of light. Our ignorance in this respect restricts our 

 influence upon the coloration of flowers and blossoms to a very modest and 

 merely empirical one. 



A mere chance has led to the discovery that the infusion of sulphates of iron 

 into the soil, darkens the hue of certain plants which contain a considerable 

 quantity of tannin ; and the gardeners have proiited by this discovery for the 

 culture of the hortensia. But these examples are rare, and as yet, we must re- 

 nounce all claim to the control and influence of the natural course of things in 



