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MISCELLANEOUS CONTRIBUTIONS AND EXHIBITIONS. 



SESSION 1882-83. 

 November 9, 1882. 



Exhibition of Hoya stcnophyUa, by Mr ^F. Dunn, Dalkeith; and 

 of a hybrid Sarracenia, from Dr Paterson, Bridge of Allan. 



Exhibition from the Koyal Botanic Garden, by Mr Sadler, of 

 JJiirio zihetliinus (Durian or Duryon fruit), Alsodeia Webcihrhi, 

 CoUetia Bidoniensis, Malpighia urens, and Parochehis comminiis, 

 iu flower. 



"Note on Cross-Fertilisation," by Eev. J. A. Paton, M.A., B.Sc, 

 Inch. — In experiments in cross-fertilising different varieties of 

 potato iu my garden last summer with a view to raise new, and, if 

 possible, improved seedlings, the number of flowers upon the potatoes 

 was very great, and the fruit was very abundant, bunches being on 

 nearly every plant. This year, however, though the flowers were 

 equally abundant, the only " plums " in all the rows were those 

 arising from flowers marked as having been cross-fertilised. Cer- 

 tainly the damp could not be the cause, as it acted equally on 

 crossed and uncrossed flowers. 



January 11, 1883. 



Exhibition of a spike of Hedychhim Gardnerianurn (Wall.), in 

 fruit, showing a bright red aril, from stove of the Eoyal Botanic 

 Garden, by Professor Dickson. 



Seedling Primrose, whose colour showed the nearest approach to 

 blue amongst the common Primroses, from Mr P. NeiU Eraser, 

 grown in a cold frame, but had also done well in the open air. 



February 24. 



"On some Abnormal Cones of Pinus Pinaster" by Professor 

 Dickson. 



Dr Cleghorn exhibited a collection of European woods prepared 

 by Herr Wilmersdorff, and gave an interesting account of the manu- 

 facture of these thin shavings of wood for such technological pur- 

 poses as room decoration and bookbinding. The value of the thin 

 sections of various woods exhibited for educational purposes, i.e., 

 in teaching vegetable physiology, was specially insisted on. 



Mr W. B. Boyd showed, in flower, Saxifraga ciliata (Eoyle), 

 a native of the Himalaya, grown at Faldonside, Melrose ; also 

 Calceolaria dcjlexa, and a hybrid between it and C. Lard Raglan, 

 as well as an abnormal Cyclamen recently sent to the Museum at 

 Edinburgh. 



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