TABLE 



OF CONTENTS. 



VOLUME V. 



Original Communications : — 



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I. A Short Account of the more Ornamental Evergreen Berberries 

 cultivated in the Gardens of Great Britain. By Professor 



II. A Micrographic Study of the Disease of Saffron known under 

 the name of Tacon. Read before the Society of Biology at 

 Paris, Dec. 2, 1848, by C. Montagne, D.M. . . .21 



III. Account of an Experiment in packing ripe fruit of the Boston 



Nectarine, in boxes surrounded with ice, and transmitting it 

 from Boston to London. By Robert Thompson . . .27 



I V, Memorandum concerning a Remarkable Case of Vegetable Trans- 



formation. By Professor Lindley ..... 29 



V. Memoranda concerning some New Plants recently introduced 

 into gardens otherwise than through the Horticultural Society. 

 No. 2. By John Lindley, Ph. D., F.R.S., Vice-Secretary . 32 



VI. Experimental Investigation into the Amount of Water given off 

 by Plants during their Growth ; especially in relation to the 

 Fixation and Source of their various Constituents. By J. B. 

 Lawes, of Rothamstead ....... 38 



VII. Some Memoranda concerning the Melloca. By the Vice- 



VIII. Rose Stocks. By John Saul, Durdham Down Nursery, Bristol . 70 



IX. Some Experiments in the Cultivation of the Pine-Apple on 

 Hamilton's System. By Robert Reid, C.M.H.S., Gardener to 

 Mrs. Clark, Noblethorp, Barnsley . . . ' . .73 



X. On some Ornamental Umbelliferous Plants. By Thomas Moore, 

 F.B.S., Curator of the Physic Garden of the Worshipful 

 Society of Apothecaries, Chelsea . . . . .75 



XL Notes respecting a few Ornamental Winter and Spring Flower- 

 ing Plants. By George Fleming, C.M.H.S., Gardener to the 

 Duke of Sutherland, F.H.S., at Trentham . . . .89 



XII. On the Cultivation of the Cauliflower. By Henry Baily, 

 C.M.H.S., Gardener to G. Harcourt, Esq., at Nuneham Park, 

 Oxon 103 



XIII. Will Tubers Grow after the Destruction of the Leaves of a 



Plant? By John Lindley, Ph.D., F.R.S 105 



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