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PROCEEDINGS OF LEARNED SOCIETIES. 



ROYAL SOCIETY. 



December 15, 1853. — Thomas Bell. Esq., V.P., in the Chair. 



" On a New Method of propagating Plants." By E. J. Lowe, 

 Esq., F.R.A.S., F.G.S. &c. 



The author states that it had occurred to him, that if a cutting of 

 a plant were sealed at the base, so as to exclude the moisture of the 

 soil from ascending the stem in injurious quantities, the method of 

 striking cuttings of most species of plants would not be so preca- 

 rious a process as at present ; and accordingly some collodion was 

 obtained in order to make the experiment. 



With respect to this new process, he states, that immediately 

 upon the cutting being severed from the parent stem, the collodion 

 was applied to the wound, and then left a few seconds to drj', after 

 which the cuttings were potted in the ordinary manner. 



To test the value of this new process more effectually, duplicates 

 of all the species experimented upon were at the same time similarly 

 planted, without the collodion being applied to them. 



Experiments were carried on in two different ways ; one batch of 

 cuttings being placed on a hot-bed, whilst a second batch was 

 planted in the open ground, without even the protection of glass. 



First Batch. — All of which were placed on a hot-bed on the 1st 

 of September, and examined on the 1st of October : — 



Stove Plants. 



Number of 

 cuttings 



with 

 collodion 

 applied. 



Name of plant. 



Number of i 



.Aiumoeror. ^'?™'^ *1 Number o 

 cuttings cuttings v,ath- ^^^ 



which tSok i °"!: ''^'JPP '■ which tSol 

 root. I cation of col- 

 I lodxon. , 



Ixora coccinea 



Tacsonia manicata 



Franciscea Hopeana 



Franciscea Pohllana 



Gloxinia Maria van Houtte . 



Begonia incarnala 



Achimer.cs patens 



Hoya bella 



Rondeletia speciosa 



AUamanda nerifolia 



Greenhouse Plants. 



Boronia serrulata 



Polygala dalmaisiana 



Polygaln Tandiflora , 



Verbena luna 



Chorozema cordata 



Epacris pallida 



Leschenaiiltia formosa 



Swainsonia astragalifolia 



S wainsonia galegifoUa 



Abella rupestris 



Plectranthus concolor, picta 



