TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



VOLUME II. 



Original Communications : — 



Article Page 

 I. On Hybridization amongst Vegetables. By the Hon. and 

 Very Rev. William Herbert, LL.D., Dean of Manches- 

 ter. Part the First 1 



II. On the Ventilation and Covering of Hot-houses. By Mr. 



Thomas Moore 28 



III. Facts connected with the Potato Disease. By Mr. George 



John Towers, C M.H.S 31 



IV. Note upon Daphne Fortuni, a new species introduced from 



China. By Mr. Fortune, Curator of the Botanic Garden 

 of the Society of Apothecaries at Chelsea. {With a Co- 

 loured Plate) . 34 



V. Report on Experiments made in the Garden of the Society, 

 in 1846, with Seeds prepared by Mr. Francis Henry 

 Bickes, of Mayence, on the Rhine . • . .35 



VI. On the Culture of Asparagus at Killerton. By Mr. W. 

 Craggs, Gardener to Sir T. D. Acland, Bart., M.P., 

 F.H.S 39 



VII. Further Observations on the Influence of Electricity on 

 Vegetation. By Edward Solly, Esq., F.R.S., F.L.S., 

 Hon. Memb. Royal Agricultural Society, Professor of 

 Chemistry to the Horticultural Society, &c. . . 42 



VIII. A Return of the Proportion per Acre of Diseased and 

 Sound Tubers in the Society's Collection of Potatoes 

 cultivated in 1846. By Mr. R. Thompson, Superintendent 

 of the Orchard and Kitchen-Garden Department . . 45 



IX. Observations upon the Polmaise Method of Heating Garden 

 Buildings. By D. B. Meek, Esq., Holmsdale House, 

 Nutfield . 49 



X. Remarks on the Culture and Habits of the Cephalotus fol- 

 licularis, accompanied by Meteorological Tables of the 

 Temperature of Cornwall. By Thomas Corbett, Gar- 

 dener to Sir William Molesworth, Bart., M.P., F.H.S. . 72 



XI. On Hybridization amongst Vegetables. By the Hon. and 

 Very Rev. William Herbert, LL.D., F.H.S., Dean of 



Manchester. Part the Second 81 



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