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differential ]ilaiit cell may resume its powers of growth and division 

 l)ecomini>- onee again eml)r\T)nic and thereby resuming its immortal- 

 ity. 



" ^\■hatever be the final verdict on Mr. Benedict's discoveries we 

 cannot but I)e grateful to him for getting away from words and 

 appealing to facts. N"or will horticulturists be slow to accept 

 the moral that it l^ehoves us to go on producing new varieties by 

 cross breeding, for whether or no all existing varieties are doomed 

 sooner oi- later to old age, the fact remains that there is still room 

 for improvement among all our cultivated varieties of fruits and 

 plants generally." 



It would be interesting to have authentic records of the be- 

 haviour of Angsana trees raised from seed. 



T. F. Chipp. 



Echinodia theobromae, Pat. 



The following notes are in continuation of the article in the 

 " Clarden's Bulletin " Vol. II, No. ">, page 144. Further specimens 

 of Echinodia iheohromae, Pat. as described by i'atoiiillard in the 

 Bulletin de la Societe Mycologique de France " Tome XXXIV, 

 2n(l Fasc. have been ol)tained growing on small branches of a 

 Quercus in the Botanic Gardens, Singapore. The smaller speci- 

 mens agree entirely with the original description of Patouillard. 

 In the larger specimens, which do not exceed. 3 mm. in diameter, 

 the older or generally middle portion of the specimens developes 

 a typical polyporaoeous tissue. The pores whose length is the same 

 as the height of the plant, constitute the whole of the specimen 

 except the thin crust of hy])hae which is directly applied to the 

 support, and the crust covering the outside edges of the specimens 

 from which the still)oid fructiheations arise. The transition from 

 stilboid to porus formation is abrupt,- the stilboid columns at the 

 transition area quickly l)ecoming the pore walls of the inner pore 

 surface. The pore surface often presents a lenzitoid appearance. 

 The diameter of the pores is small about 0.20 mm. No spores were 

 found within the ]X)res. (Singapore Field Xo. 514.3). 



T. F. Chipp. 



Paddy in the Economic Gardens. 



Two adjacent lields measuring together 431)8 square feet, or 

 say, one tenth of an acre were put under Paddy on the 20th July. 



The land selected is almost an ideal one for the purpose, being 

 a Hat of light sandy loam overlying a clay subsoil, which, owing 

 to the low configuration of tlie ground, drains itself very slowly. 

 After grubbing up the roots, whidi were heaped and burnt, the 

 land was thoroughly broken up and strewn with the ashes. A 

 corner of the field, 12 feet l)y 12 ( = 144 sq. feet)* was, after 3 



* Note — In Cochin China the rule generally followed is to allow, for th© 

 nursery 2 hundredths of the acreage to be planted. 



