CX ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



cultivation. Mrs. Lloyd Wynne offers a prize for the best collec- 

 tion of species of Narcissus, but not of mere garden varieties, for 

 the first Tuesday Meeting in April 1870. 



Specimens of wood from peach- and nectarine-trees injured by 

 heat at Chiswick were exhibited, with a diagram of a section of a 

 plum-tree which had suffered from the same cause. The bark 

 seems always to be cracked transversely. A curious anomalous 

 growth of the bark, in the case of the plum-tree, was pointed out, 

 no less than three abnormal growths having taken place appa- 

 rently from some hypertrophy of the cortical layer. Protection 

 from heat was shown to be quite as necessary in summer as from 

 frost in winter. Tiles at the base of the tree are not sufficient, as 

 the branches are frequently affected. 



The Chairman then called attention to the fine plant of 'Rhodo- 

 dendron Falconeri in full bloom in the Society's Garden, and 

 trusted that the genus would receive especial attention at South 

 Kensington, as it seemed likely to prove a subject of great interest 

 to the Members. 



The Meeting then adjourned. 



EEPOET ON BEDDING PLANTS GROWN AT 

 CHISWICK IN 1868. 

 By Thomas Moore, E.L.S., Floral Director E.H.S. 



The following are brief notes of the results of the Trials of new 

 varieties of Bedding plants in 1868, and will be sufficient for the 

 use of cultivators, as indicating the colours, habits, and general 

 peculiarities of the several kinds. The season, it will be re- 

 membered, was peculiarly hot and dry, and this may have mo- 

 derated the vigour of some sorts, which in ordinary and moister 

 seasons might have a greater tendency to leaf development. The 

 exhaustive character of the weather may, on the other hand, in 

 some cases have interfered with the normal continuity of bloom. 

 The notes here collected will therefore have to be taken in con- 

 nexion with these considerations. 



In order to render this Eeport the more complete, the varieties 

 of Pelargoniums which received Certificates in 1865 and in subse- 

 quent years, and which were grown with the newer kinds for 

 comparison, have been included. 



