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ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Mr. Berkeley then stated the arrangements which were made 

 for the more speedy publication of the Journal. During the 

 Meetings of the Scientific Committee, a sheet or half-sheet would 

 appear at each Meeting, the several parts being collected at the 

 end of the year, so as to form a number of the Journal. Papers 

 submitted to the Committee would thus obtain almost immediate 

 publication. Arrangements were made that those persons who 

 did not like to wait till the end of the year might have the sepa- 

 rate sheets or half-sheets forwarded by post j but this would not 

 prevent their having the perfect number when published. 



The Chairman exhibited some curious knotted branches of Elm, 

 which he obtained at Pau. Similar specimens had been exhibited 

 on a former occasion from a tree in the garden of Mr. Burroughes, 

 at Ketton, in Rutlandshire. The burrs were due to the formation 

 of a number of adventitious buds. In the tree at Ketton one of 

 the buds was developed in almost every burr, which was very 

 rarely the case in the specimens from Pau. After some observa- 

 tions on the Orchids exhibited at the Meeting, and on some speci- 

 mens of the Citrus japonica, Mr. Bateman adverted to the Pack- 

 ington plant-trainer, which seems rather complicated, but which 

 he considered would be useful. 



Moral Committee, March 16. — Pirst- Class Certificates were 

 awarded to Spirwa (or Hoteia) japonica variegata, a Japanese 

 plant having the leaves beautifully reticulated with pale yellow, 

 from Messrs. E. Gr. Henderson and Son ; to Azalea La Superbe, 

 an expanded smooth-flowered Continental variety, of a fiery-red 

 coloured with violet spot, from Mr. Turner ; to Hyacinth Sector, 

 a bold single pale lavender or greyish mauve, from Mr. W. Paul ; 

 to Cineraria Royal Purple, a very showy richly coloured variety, 

 with the florets of a deep violet, having round the disk a nar- 

 row white zone, and exterior to this another of crimson ; this came 

 from Messrs. P. and A. Smith. A Second-Class Certificate was 

 awarded to the same for Cineraria Ino, a large white with narrow 

 rosy-crimson belting. 



Fruit Committee. — Mr. Melville, of Dalmeny, sent a large bas- 

 ket of Variegated Kale, among the specimens of which were hybrids 

 between the Ragged Jack, Eed Dutch, and annual Variegated 

 Kale, the cross between the Eed Cabbage being considered worthy 

 of further experiment. 



