JOUENAL OF HOETICULTUEE ANDCOTTAGE^AEDENEE. 



[ Febniai7 15, 1872. 



plied that they often settle on the tendi-d , lealstato ^d 

 tender branches, where they form excrescences ^-^^ g^ ii^e 

 gr-owths, differing only from tl^°f ,<''^,f ? ^f ^leTence in the 

 Set as one would naturaUy expect from the difierence m in 

 plant tissues. After the Vine has finished it« |™' ^'^J^ 

 ^ZuMf lice fincUn" no more succulent and suitable leares, 

 ^:^%o Werand seek the roots; bo that by the end of 



'^S'^ryor^T'atc^e^dXmlhe eggs on the roots ai-e ab^o^ 

 lutely tchstmguishable from those hatched ^^'^Jl^'J^^^ 

 the /raTid apterous female cUffers m no respect whateTer from 

 the mother gall louse. The females on the roots seem to be 

 *iess prlfic fhan those on the gaU. and ^^fj^^^^^^^^^^' 

 are rather larger. These eggs ai-e always of a bright yeuoj- 

 and on the dark root are detected with the naked eye as reaMy 

 as the hce, which become darker, or a dull orange, as they grow 



°^^'The msect is found on the roots in ^/tfe^^J^X^g^^' 

 summer months. In the whiter it is found dormant, prmci 

 pally m the larva state, and no eggs ^e to be seen V\itn 

 the cu-culation of the sap in the spi-uig t^« ^,«'^y*y ^^„f ^".^ 

 young recommences, and in a short tmie f ''^^''^J'^f, ^^PSL^'," 

 deposited agahi. At this season the P^^^'^'l^J *\7 i^*lf 

 beaks produce veiy decided swelhngs, and an ^^^^ « of mois 

 tui-e at the wounded parts. The winged forms ^Z^J-^l^^^^ 

 uncommon, and commence to issue from the gi'ound perhaps 



"'^S:/fx'amined a large number of Yines -,anf ^^^t-* 

 from St. Louis, and I shall merely quote the result as re^airds 

 a few. "VitisYmifera (European). A^l European vaneties 



with roots badly affected. In ^f^y ,f ^^^'^.''^^i.f Toncord 

 and gone, with the Vines about dead. No leaf-gaUs. Concord 

 (native variety), no leaf-galls, scarcely any ^oo^-^^tv al^rge 

 enthely exempt." From the researches of ^f- ».=^^y .\ ^'i'l^ 

 number of om- native varieties suffer to a great extent but as 

 it would not mterest your readers, I shaU not o««;W ^P^ce by 

 quotmg the results of his researches, but m^^^'^Vlfn, ° ™ 

 fact that, m accordance with his expenence, t^^^Concoid pro- 

 bably suffers less from the Vme louse than any other ^ai ety 

 For a lengthened period it had been a weU-recognised fac 

 that European Grapes would not succeed m this co^^^tir undei 

 ordhiary garden culture. Grapes bemg a marketable frmt a 

 number of persons endeavoiired to supply the national want by 

 the raismg of seedlings, some piuely native, and otliers hybiids 

 between native and Em-opean varieties. Hunch-edso varieties 

 were raised and dissemmated ; but experience estabhshed the 

 fact that only a hmited number remamed healthy and luxu- 

 i-iant m any soil and situation.— Ai. Fresco, hew Jersey, U.b. 

 (To be continuecl.) 



THE EOYAL HOBTICULTUBAL SOCIETY. 



ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING. 



Febbuakt 13th. 



The Annual General Meeting of the Eoyal Horticultural 



Socfetv wS held last Tuesday afternoon in the Comicil-room, 



iouthSin^on. In the un^avoidable fBence of L^rd H^nry 



G. Lennox, M.P., the chair was taken by G. F. Wilson, Jisq., 



^ Tife Ch-ubman said he had received a letter fi-om Lord HeruT 

 Lennox M.P., who was expected to have presided at the meet- 

 Lg stating that imporiaut matters ^^f P'^«^«'^*'=l"°Sf/°f 



Ml- Bic^uiDS, the Assistant Secretai-y, read the Minutes of 

 the last annual meeting, which were confii'med 



Messrs. Fortune and Mooke were appointed Scrutmeeis foi 



^^Th^AssiSTANT SECBETABYthen read the Annual Eeport, which 



'^ TlFe^C^AiBMAN said that was the time for any FeUow who had 

 a remark to make upon the Eeport to do so. He rnignt 

 obsei-ve that the accounts were annexed to the Eeport and had 

 been circulated with it. j_ „ 



Mr Blenkiks said it afforded him much pleasure to move 

 that the very satisfactory Eeport which they, had just heard read 

 should be received and adopted by the meeting. He thought he 

 should have the concurrence of all the Fellows present when he 

 said the Eeport was a really satisfactory one [hear hear J. Last 

 vear, when he had the honom- of seconding the adoption of tbe 

 Annual Eeport, he took occasion to remark that he entertained 

 a iii-m behef that a union between the Exhibition Commissioners 

 and the CouncQ of the Eoyal Horticultnral Society would be 

 highly beneficial to the latter. The highly satisfactory Eeport 

 which had been presented to them that day showed he was riglit 

 when he anticipated this improvement. He hoped tfiis umon 



would long continue, and that tlj^y/JC^.^Jf^i^L^r pri^eges 

 *"piSor'TE='sam he Twd, in seconding the motion 



dav worked with a marked success and in that bociety rne piaii 

 eristed of ^g to members tickets to admit two persons on 



but not in paying t^^eir subscriptaons [aUu^^^ Th^^^^^^ 

 fardtp^,5sTu&\gr^^e^ar%lL^^^ 



part ot tnegauteu, vvii ;* was a shame these tents cost so 



whose tastes lay in that ^^''^^°" L">= , J j^^jjy ^jene- 



the CoimcU in this respect could not fail to prove m„my ueuc 

 ficial to the Society. 



Mr Godson said he should preface the few remarks he was 

 ab^ut t?rke\y V^^vosi^g oic l^^^^J- ^l^^^'^H 

 S^-wt^e *^me-^^%nr '^aSo^tjSX Counc. 



i^-°K^pUsefcoSir;f,«o5£j;z^^ 



one year they ^ad a gentleman voted out, and th^e^nex^^^^^ 

 they had ,l™i^™t"\,^°;, J^^JlJI'g Now, with all deference, 



maiked clegiee to ub o -^ ^ j L^^-g .j^aa applauded 



[hear, hearj. ^^ ^/^^^^^f L\. f^^ gocietj' last year, and what 

 and praised for what he '"^.™\'^"^^" ,,„ •*„„„ g^jit out of the 

 was the gratitude shown l^''^' ,3m ''^ „'!S '™t the circum- 



mg tll?;t tl^<*<,C°^^^g hYvh^g produced a Show of unusual beauty 

 ham, that — isesiaes naviuoi'i vpsult which 



rhatVdl2"00-fo?rrnrto Her Majesty's Commissioners of^^^^^^ 

 chaigea *^*^V"' , ^nd yet no income tax was allowed? 

 Now,'lo or lo Tsf hTthouyt, a matter worthy of considera- 



