Novemser 30, 1895.) 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
649 
object of thinning was to remove some stag- headed 
Elms, and those which interfered with 
ment of the Sycamores. No ot 
or dying, n be removed, as the Sycamore now 
bas sufficient light and air to hold its own against 
the Elm 
Warrzixstow Woop.—In this wood a number of 
Hornbeam pollards have been — out in single 
trees here and there, Та our judgment, a better 
effect would be obtained in matte by removing such 
pollards as it may be desirable to get rid of, in 
groups, leaving other portions unthinned in the 
meantime, By adopting this 
eturn to a more nat condition of woodland 
would be o ed, the artificial — giving way 
to natural and unmutilated trees. 
Oax Hirr, 3 The thinning here has 
been carefully carried out, 
which are unfortun conspicuous a feature of 
—— Forest. The — are too small, and 
ar each other. We recommend that, in future, 
Ber мем be of a bolder type, and further apart. 
gh 16 may not be exactly within the terms 
of our reference, we beg to offer the following 
remarks for the consideration of your committee :— 
would 
1. We that a p operations 
should drawn up, showing which areas it is pro- 
posed to deal with during the next ten years, and 
? 
2. 16 is desirable that when the plan is REIN 
and approved, the execution of the work should 
be placed in the hands of the Superintendent 
of the Forest, who should be responsible to the 
committee for the entire management of the 
Orest, 
x e present moment, the forest is in plac 
littered with heaps of cut timber. This is very — 
sightly, and we strongly recommend that arrange- 
ments should be made for the cut timber to be 
removed by May 1 in each year. 
REEMAN-MITF. вр, 
Ja ANDERSON, 
Ковіквом. 
Ww, 
W. Scarica, 
A. D. Үквѕтев,” 
WG, 
THICKNESS OF THE RECEPTACLES. (SEE P, 618.) 
Our A.MANAC.—We shall be E if secre- 
taries of horticultural and other societies, and our 
correspondents li e erally, will 3 us аз 
аз 
нн» эин 
On the occasion of the 
meeting on Thursday, November 21, Mr. J. G. 
Baxer, F. R. S., e и in the chair, his Grace 
the Dake Bedford, Meserr. Bernard Arnold, and 
: elected Fellows of the Society, 
A 1 B. Wood was admitted, The Rev. G. Hens- 
LINNEAN SOCIETY.— 
vite described, In addition were some notes on 
geometry and astronomy, an of alti- 
tudes and superficies. Mr. Baker thought the number 
some intereat to botanists, and suggested publication 
sible, Dr. D. Morris, C.M.G., read а paper on the 
“ D.velopment of a Single Seed in the Fruit of the 
Cocoa-n 1 
ut Palm (Cocos nucifera).” Alluding to the 
occ aad of with twin and trifid stema 
arising from one base, it w wn tbat these were 
due—(1) to several seeds іп one fruit; (2) to more 
than one embryo in a seed; or (3) to a branching of 
the primary shoot. In cases cited by Rumphius, 
others, seeds were found in one 
ourse development of 
fruit. The c of the single 
cell was illustrated by means of Jantern slides. 
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Fic, 107, —ТтнЕ PARIS GREEN OR LAON ARTICHOKE; SHOWING ON THE LEFT A PORTION GF TIE HEAD, AND ON THE RIGHT A SECTI N sHUWING 
THE 
The obliteration of the two cells began about 
i е was 
narrow , which were still trac 
able in the mature fruit. Оа behalf of Mr, A 
J. Ewart, i f Gibson gave an 
of a on “assimilatory inhibition, 
but any cause affecting the 
cells s will aleo affect their power of assimilation, the 
the discussion of experimenta with a tines number of 
plants, and criticism of the results arrived at at by 
