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however, was recommended to tlie attention of the Board of Di- 

 rectors at Chiswick. 



The Meeting then adjourned. 



GENERAL 'MEETING-. 



W. Wilson Saunders, Esq., E.R.S., in the Chair. 



The awards were reported by the Rev. J. Dix and Mr. "Wilson, 

 the former of whom called especial attention to some enamelled 

 labels, and the latter, after noticing Mr. Rivers' s magnificent dis- 

 play of apples, was requested to obtain information as to their 

 mode of preservation. 



Mr. Berkeley, after noticing the novelties which had been 

 brought before the Floral Committee, called attention to Bpircea 

 Tfamhergii, together with Hoteja Japonica, as an elegant orna- 

 ment of the conservatory in spring, and which is, moreover, per- 

 fectly hardy, and to some specimens of Primus myrobalanus and 

 Pyrus sinensis from the Chiswick Gardens, where they were in 

 full beauty. The fruit of a Solarium was sent under the name of 

 Solanum yuisardos, or culinary Solanum, from Lord Carrington's, 

 which proves to be Solanum betaceum, Cav., a species now referred 

 to the genus Cyphomandra, which differs from Solanum merely in 

 having the connective of the anther-cells gibbous and conspicuous. 

 Specimens of the "Wild Cabbage, from Llandudno, were identical 

 with others from Grwrwch Castle, which Mr. Berkeley had culti- 

 vated for five generations, and which exhibited the Kale type. It 

 appeared that he was wrong in supposing the disease in peach- 

 shoots, noticed at a former Meeting, to have been caused by 

 extreme changes of weather, as it has appeared for several succes- 

 sive years. It is probable, therefore, that some peculiarity of soil is 

 the cause of the malady. Allusion was then made to a vine whose 

 roots had been attacked by mycelium ; a generous top-dressing 

 was applied, which had induced a growth of new roots in the 

 fresh soil ; but, notwithstanding, it could not effectually resist the 

 injurious action of the fungus-spawn. Mr. Berkeley promised to 

 report on several forms of Phormium which were placed before 

 the Eloral Committee, about the nomenclature of which there was 

 some doubt. 



With reference to this, the Chairman stated that there were 

 two or three distinct forms of Phormium tenax. 



