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business to return it, It was said it was not a case 
bei : 
(here was anythin ae there 
— have байа voie f he bers no > doubt it w it would have 
а fore attention, and У 
іп а корн form. Te defendant fias 
wer ino Court 
of indebtedness it amounts to saying ‘‘I do 
not me itl e you an anyt , but if I do it does not 
show you din ‘pre rove that I owe you more than £300." 
I think he was liable for — is rro bill, Е that leaves 
у. * Show owe you 
d 
g 
шил probably the only ground 
defendant liable is, that he 
the articles which h m 
Ap ie eed ins — under th 
circumstan which th elivered, If jen 
think that н Кет lind = the дат же aR you 
will find for the de ze nda 
The jury then r their return into court 
said they found x dict B "the plaintiff for the full 
amount, oin per cent., which the gardener would have 
received. 
beyon 
on which you would 
had knowingl en ote 
should ts "M 
EXCHEQUER DIVISION : Nov. g.—(Before the Lord 
‘leasby and Amphlett.) 
Haw , moved on behalf of the defendant 
in the action Will v. Leslie, M.P., for a rule to 
show cause why the verdict should not be set aside and 
anew t rdered, on t und that the learned 
Judge had misdirected the jury, m. that the verdict was 
‘against the weight of evidence e learned Counsel 
ed tbe facts of the case. As already reported, the 
defendant, soon after succeeding to the vul in Ireland, 
in 1871, on the death of his Ah found that his then 
dener, Mr , had pl edit 
siderable amount for shrubs and for his 
He therefore felt it necessary t ist upon him limiting 
his expendit e a year. He found, 
i ga 
@ | 
the amount in one year reaching to 
upon sighs Hood, and re ete, ti plaintifs 
und that he had know e of t 
ve to limiting his 
ly. 
Е 
ment he had 5 -— 
AUS on the garden t 
learned ve н ges said in тч giving judgment 
t Baron Bramwell on the subject. 
Reports of Societies. 
Royal Horticultural: Movember 10.—David 
Wooster, Esq., i M. J. Ber- 
keley, announci the 
Fruit Committee, stated with reference to the com- 
petition with produ f 
Comer aer e prizes, and 1 
settle the matter "vul the Messrs. dg . Mr. 
including a s of Indian Corn, which 
interest on eet of its having been 
of consisting of three perfect 
tae Gardens’ реа nr ihe eee 
o the productions sometimes found at the base of 
нб ж. i 
-i ill-developed 
76. same in the case 
м rowths something like this were 
found М wc н, and produced bya minute species 
of Fungus belonging to the genus Exobasidium. With 
me to e splended batch of hybrid Pines 
5 7 
while 
servant and successful hybridist—as witness the batch 
of new den Caladi Golden Fuchsias, 
&c. been remarked Gardeners’ 
Сона that Mr. Bausé ought to Eee a medal 
from ociety ; an with that sub- 
je ^ T atal mention that on referring to the 
minutes of the €: I ps Chis oard of 
Direction held on Augus 1869, he found that the 
oard recommended to the Council Ан awar 
silver medal Зы some other suitable acknowledgment) 
of the admirable manner in which he 
dux ym at Chiswick, he being about to 
leave at that time. - Through some misunderstanding 
never been delivered, but now that 
he case r the notice 
f the Coun о doubt Mr. Bausé wo 
get it. While speakin edal Mr. Berkeley 
mmented the fact i 
Do 
a 
Y rchids, and he (Mr. 
Berkeley) trusted that the Council would take his case 
into consideration, for he thoroughly deserved some 
recognition on the part of the Horticultural 
Society for the great fits he had ad conferred оп horti- 
culture, From Sir W. Hutt he had recei throug 
the Messrs. Veitch, a fruit of Diospyros which 
ly came from China, but which was 
Physianthus albens, a native of Bu 
so been placed in his hands. 
but he aout not like to eat it, 
sprays of ornamen eaved an 
e was much struck € A 
Northamptonshire with the great number of 
srateegus bushes, which produced an effect 
beyond anything he could conceive, 
SCIENTIFIC oer eg con -== rew 
the chair, —At thi ie meeting after 
e 
while a large number of varied and interesting matt 
were brought forward; of some T Е we can 
ion . 
Abnormal Pinus,—Dr. Masters showed a branch of 
which d f 
Murray, 
was in this case wholl 
usion to that he 
had rece seen on the Simplon the > Claabrasilian 
Fir, or a еа ole form, as a sport, and 
also as a seedling; he had, therefore, no doubt that 
this variety nu А sometimes from bud-variation, 
sometimes но ѕетіпа] ce ion, 
nigra, &c.—Dr, Masters exhibited a cane 
of this menlis grown in ro garden of Prince Trou- 
betzkoi at Pallanza, Lago Maggiore, with a view to 
show pe age growth of the plant was in that 
ity. Fruiting specimens of two species 
ucalyptus the same garden were, 
Adventitious Roots of Hazel. — 
shown from Mr. Stratton, Newpot, 1d 
analogous to the formation often met with 
of Elms. 
Galls on Beech Leaves.—Dr. Masters showed leaves 
of Beech trees gathered near Interlaken and studded 
with hard conical galls, the produce of a dipterous 
insect, on which Mr. McLachlan will probably 
rion 
bow 
Experiments on Grafting Potatos, — Dt. Masters 
exhibited a photograph in illustration of some by M, 
ed in 
vour to im 
tion, and, consequently, a greater power 
isease. 
The Imperial Winter Garden, Vienna,—A. series of 
ie pheno’ was exhibited in illustration of 
the r Garden at Vienna, The plates 
bere on d n 
ener and writer on Conifers 
of the most Aperi photographs of vegetation 
iler | glass that hav issued. 
Excrescence from са ne, and prea Malformations.— 
Mr. Berkeley exhibited a cone of Abies Douglasii, 
which had produced a shoot, and then referred to and 
exhibited specimens of abnormal i 
ensis, e exhibited 
— leno nodular growths, so hs indeed, as to 
usly injurious to the Y ini n which they grew. 
Mr. Sackler considered it just possible that these 
gorie s ve been more Ог less caused by 
fungus as Exobasidium, Не then referred to 
examination, which he promised to 
upon ata iain meeting. In connection with this sub- 
ject Mr. Berkeley referred to the Clavaria-like bodies 
found on Laurels in Madeira, the Canary I and 
їп; nodules on leaves of Vaccinium Vitus- 
Idea, and the so-called galls in Rhod in 
hich latte itions, indeed, i a 
eme: ө o the insects themsel 
direct from the jungle, 
was considered more fungoid а т, К 
Mr. McLachlan stated that Mr. observ 
the work of a leaf-bori 
he had indeed detected the little round entrance 
to the leaf mine. Mr. e tainton believed th 
belonged to Coleophora 
Diseased Pear.— ndrew Murray exhibited 2 
Pear infested pa т parasitic fungus known 
Helminthosporium pyrorum i 
porium dendriticum, and t 
eS 
E 
hi — so that 
rapidly renewed E "es 
ing for the fallen oors 
hed banks, i 
m 
Sul, South Brazil. These caterpillars make their 
appearance December 
in the months of N adam grees an 
Panes "T 
specimens exhibited wer taken from the en 
of Mr. Christopher James, at Rio e do 
ierra 
Sul, in January of the que 
Cooke then pee 
forward the su ect of r4 Th disease, a matter 
which has been. Ки by the — on several 
| A n in ang 
The , Mr. 
states that (with him) the fungus із almost 
found on trees on 
coccus — es were 
e living tender bark, Mr. 
theory being that the ad follows the insect 
e Larc т d by the insect for the rapid 
ropagation of It is curious, 
cgregor, that on the Scotch and Silver Fir the 
same sort of aphis but it it is not followed by 
an tion of resin-f ing v or by any 
oid appearance. aphis-blister fungus 
qu is аек on sorts of soils, from the most 
us sand and gravelto the dampest and on 
all aspects and Кыш uh fet to eo А ар 
sea-level, Dr, Cooke there were 
