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its being grafted on a red-berried Holly. It was, however, thought 

 possible that the change might have been effected by the contact 

 of pollen from the red-berried form. 



Mr. Miers exhibited an imported specimen of Oncidium ce- 

 botteta, sprinkled with black specks. 



Apple-trees and StocJcs to be submitted to the notice of the Scientific 

 Committee at South Kensington, January 19, 1869. 



Group 1. — Apples on the Nonesuch English Paradise stock, 

 with two stocks one year old. The trees are one and two years 

 old, with the exception of the dwarf bushes, which are two and 

 three years old ; this stock was raised here from the Nonesuch 

 Apple some thirty odd years ago. 



Group 2. — Apples on the Broad-leaved English Paradise stock, 

 with two stocks one year old. The trees are one and two years 

 old. This stock was raised from seed the same season as the 

 above, its parentage unknown. Both these stocks are remarkable 

 for their rooting freely at the surface, and giving a robust growth 

 with great fertility. 



Group 3. — Apples on the Erench Doucin-stock, one and two 

 years old, the best variety received from Prance. This kind 

 does not root so freely near the surface in this climate as the 

 English Paradise stocks. Two stocks, one and two years old, are 

 sent with the trees. 



Group 4. — Apples on the Erench Paradise stock, one and two 

 years old, with two stocks one year old. The trees on this stock 

 are very fertile, but are apt to canker in the stiff cold loams of 

 this place. 



Two Peach-trees, Bellegarde and Grosse Mignonne, early, 

 budded on a kind of White Magnum-Bonum plum. The " Erench 

 Peaches " were formerly budded on the "White-Pear-plum and 

 the Brompton-plum stocks. In Erance, at the present day, they 

 are budded on the Black-Damask and the Mirabeau-plum stocks 

 with no gr^at success, as the stocks do not swell freely. 



The stock nowvsent swells with the scion, and seems likely to 

 supersede all other %inds of plum-stocks for the Erench Peaches. 



Stocks. 



One Burr-knob, a surfaee-rooting Apple, forming a very good 

 stock for garden Apple-trees. Two Pigmy Paradise stocks, one 

 year old. Two Miniature Paradise stocks, one year old. These 



