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BOTAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
Anthoxanthum. 
Boxes 
1870. 
April 25 
May 2 
» 16 
„ 23 
„ 30 
June 6 
„ 13 
„ 20 
„ 27 
Cut on June 28. 
August 22 
Septembers ... 
December 17 ... 
1871. 
April 22. All dead. 
1 
Jl, 
9 
a 
h 
a 
h 
a 
h 
a 
h 
a 
h 
e 
h 
e 
h 
a 
d 
d 
c 
c 
d 
e 
f 
d 
d 
5. 
/ 
/ 
/ 
/ 
/ 
/ 
/ 
/ 
d 
f 
f 
f 
6. 
This is apparently a plant that thrives better in association 
with others than when grown by itself ; whether because under the 
former circumstances it receives more shelter and is not dried up 
so rapidly, is uncertain. 
The growth in all the boxes was uneven, especially in boxes 1 
and 2, and least so in the most highly manured boxes 5 and 6. 
Throughout, the plants in the unmanured box and in that in 
which mineral manures alone were used, were the weakest until 
after the cutting, when the second growth showed itself in greater 
luxuriance than in almost any other box, — a high position, how- 
ever, which it soon lost, as in December the plants in boxes 1 
and 2 were again at a low standard. 
Can it be that the plants in box 6, being in full growth and 
vigour at the time of cutting, felt the check caused by that opera- 
tion more than the weaker, less vigorous plants in boxes 1 and 2 r 
The ammonia salts produced throughout a tolerably even low- 
medium growth, about the same as regards degree of vigour as 
the plants treated with nitrate of soda. 
