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ounced:— Mr. M. Todd, Edinbargh, sale of 
flowers, £13 10s.; Mr. H. J. Jones, Lewisham, boxes 
in Chrysanthemum- -houses, £9; the Midland Carna- 
tion Society, per Mr, „ Syde enham, £5; Mr. J. 
Kipling, Knebworth, for admissions to ice for skating, 
„ 4d, From boxes, the follow 
irmingham 
Geo 
Mr, H. N The "Gard dens, Greenlands, Henley- 
pn Pope #, 10s.; with several smaller sums, ry of 
hich the pleat om are very — to receiv 
draft report for the year was read by the 3 
and also a financial oe signed by the auditors, 
of a distinctly favourable h of which 
Mr. F. Q Lane and Mr, J. Wright, resigning their 
sents upon the committee through inability to attend, 
THE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES.—M. Cornt, the 
Director of the Botanical Garden at the Jardin 
des Plantes, * has been elected a Vice-President 
of the Academ 
— MM. H. . eee and ED BUREAU 
are candidates for the vacancy in nye eg 
section, caused by the Reeth of of M. Docka 
THE LATE WILLIAM THOMSON,—We have been 
for ire sympathy for my sisters, and 
messages of comfort and consolation please 
accept our public t ed to 
but find that will be impossible, refore hop 
that they will accept this n instead. 
Joux „NB. We may add 
MSON, 
we have received very numerous letters expres- 
sive of the high esteem in which Mr. THomsoN was 
held by his colleagues, 
THE MONTROSE COLLECTION OF ORCHIDS.— 
Messrs, Jo & Co, have purchased the 
whole collection of Orchids seen by the late 
Dowager Duchess of Montrose at Newmarket. The 
collection is large and varied, ee its nature is well 
known to most Orchid lovers, and is now offered for 
Pots An illustrated price-list is published by the 
ompany. 
AYRSHIRE GARDENERS’ MUTUAL IMPROVE- 
MENT ASSOCIATION.—The usual fortnightly meet- 
ing of this Association was held in the Carrick 
Street Hall, Ayr, oF Thursday e Mr. 
McCartney, Brackzurn, Doon- 
holm, presided, eee 3 
on “The Pe ach and Nectarine ” was read es 
mbusdoon, 
next hosii will — Sais on February 75 
Mr. D. Wirm, ö — vras Gardens, wien 
on “ Germination of Seeds,” So gyde 
THE GROWTH OF WOUNDED R 
ooTs,— 
he number of Natural Science (vo ; ct 
referr: 
3 
B 
* 
t in 
i i The subject is 
the investigation of the curvatures, styled poses 
tropic, which follow the infliction of wounds on the 
et tag roots, e39 phenomena were firat 
and igri Darwin 
e in the ier of M * 
dung seedlings were allowed 
a 
b pork in moist air, 
THE 
GARDENERS’ 
and a small piece of card was fixed on one side of the 
tip of the short rootlet by means of shellac dissolved 
in alcohol. large proportion of these rootlets 
became considerably bent, curving away from the 
side to which the object was attached. A similar 
result followed when nitrate of silver was used a3 
an irritant, or when thin slices were cut off 
parallel to one of the sloping sides of the apex. In 
their explanation of these experiments, the authors 
concluded that sensitiveness resided in the tip of the 
sufficient irritant to induce deflection. 
repeated the Darwins’ experiments, and came to the 
conclusion that the curvatures yeah simply a 
mechanical result of an injury to the roo 
this is injured the tissues beneath are BAN released 
from strain, and extend more rapidly than those on 
the opposite side, thus causing convexity of the side 
affected. Professor SpatpiInc, however, observed 
that curvatures in the radicle of a Be 
follow a branding of the tip after the removal 
of the root-cap. He also finds, as WIESNER proved 
ten years ago, that the curvatures do not result from 
simple contact, and from several experiments ad- 
duces strong evidence that they are the result of an 
injury to the growing point. Thus they follow a 
small injury which extends to the growing point, but 
fail to take place even after extensive injury in 
which the growing point is not involved. Some of 
the most interesting cases cited are those which 
show that the stimulus to a curvature may remain 
latent during an artificial suspension of growth. 
It was found that roots whic h have been wounded 
confinement in p r casts for several days, an 
that traumatropic curvature still takes place 
when they an wth is resumed, 
Finally, the author claims that | the experimental 
h results are comparable 
with those obtained in the study of curvatures 
induced by the stimulus of light and gravity. For 
eee in the case of the cotyledons of grasses, the 
tip has been most sensitive to the 
directive action of light, the stimulus being trane- 
mitted aleg the tip to the lower part, where, after 
an interval of time, ae Sgian ondin 
posed e p g curvature is 
THE SURVEYORS’ INSTITUTION. — The next 
ordinary general meeting will be held on Monday, 
FLOWERS IN SEASON.—Strains of Primula 
payent Seas pe been so improved year after 
year by selection, and by cross-fertilisati 
is the rule rather than the e rine tc 
m. Bol, nursery yman, 
eg. has — 0 a good 
s of his best varieties for o 
15 Road, Che 
number of bloo 
inspection, salek still further prove what fine s 
train 
are obtainable. Well pto the average in size a d 
substance, t wers were remarkable for their 
pleasing colour, It is of little use quoting names 
perhaps, in these strains, but mention may be de 
ofan r called Brilliant, the colour of which 
k ing, being of a rich shade of crimson 
83 with — and having a pale yellow eye. 
an w on 
didi oa e, is a good specimen of 
new one; and Imperial Blue i 
colour than the ordinary blue one r. B. S. WIILLAs 
sends a remakably fine sample of a creamy-white 
Variety, 
LEE, BLACKHEATH, AND E 
EWISHAM HORTI- 
CULTURAL SOGIETY.— The annual gend ORT 
CHRONICLE. 
[Fenrvary 2, 1895, 
0 P 
of the above was held on Monday . 2 1 
inst., at the Lee Institute, Mr. M. A. 
in the unavoidable absence of the Pee J. tae 
M.P., taking the chair. The meeti 
n 
invested as a reserve fund in New Zəaland 
The dates fixed for the exhibition in the current reat 
are Wednesday and Thursday, July 3 and 4, 
“ALBUM OF SUTTON’S GARDEN PéEag,’— 
This is a well got up publication, 2 excellent 
ere ae representations o rio 
introduced of late yea 
cross- breeding. 
illustrations of the application of photography tothe 
representation of vegetables that we have seen, 
NATIONAL CHRYSANTHEMUM SOCIETY.—In 
addition tu the three exhibitions announced to take 
place at the Royal Aquarium in r, November, 
and December, the usual show o 2 ie 
mums, Dahlias, and Gladioli, will be held on Sept. 
4, and 5, the National Chrysanthemum 
giving £20 in prizes for early Chrysanthemums, and 
£10 towards the Dahlia and Gladioli classes, supple- 
mented by a grant of £50 from the Royal Aquarium 
Society. i schedule of prizes will be issued as 
heretofor hemum 
Society. 
„ HEALTH AND WEALTH,” — We note the ies 
of the first quarterly Ray) 4 aaa with this 
cheerful-sounding nam w-comer is the 
organ of The Church Society pA 155 Promotion of 
Kindness to Animals, The Church Sanitary Associa- 
tion, and The Faneral Reform Association, the 
interests of which three institutions it warmly 
endeavours to promote. The publishers are Mess. 
Werts, Garpner, Darton & Co., Pater 
Buildings, 
TOMATOS.— According to an 
Revue Horticole, MM. Nicatse despatch bk 
Palaiseau, near Paris, every diy toa during the seater 
between 5000 and 6000 kilos. 85 
London (5000 kilos = 5 tons nea fic! 1 È 
vias 
from 
1 
1 6 
il- J-ventilatel 
frame, and every effort i ae 
The x fee are “a out in the open at th 
end of April, when the weather is 1 
Two leading 3 only are left, and the ve 
are stopped when they reach the * ae 
which the — are attached. 
* from the first week in anil ti 
The fruits can be gathered and sent to ma 
good e whilst those from the south, 5 
the longer transit, 2 to be 
gathered 
they are ripe. What are our distressed elle 
about ? 
to pla 
sown in a frame in * middle of 1 
Wasps.—The inevitable untimely dare * e, 
on January 18; so mays a gardene 9 
ford. We can only say, o much the Thetford T 
the wasp,” if London e, prevail at iy 
Oar correspondent advises our readers, ide breskt 
quite light-heartedly, to take potassiceyanie’s, 
fine, of which a tablespoonfal is to be p° oed len 
wasp's nest when discovered. What wit with w ich 
and a variety of insecticides an 
enough o 
gerous to human life, kept in n the 
er teadily-acceasible places i 
