SEOOITD REPORT ON VABIOUB MANURES AT OHISWICK. 137 
The plants in boxes 1 and 2 produced but few flowers, those 
in the remaining boxes produced their flowers at about the same 
period ; but it was noticed that the flowers were more abundant 
in boxes 5 and 6 than in the rest. 
Poa trivialis. 
1 
Q 
o. 
y. 
6. 
1870. 
April 25 
a 
h 
c 
e 
d 
/ 
May 2 
c 
e 
d 
May 9 
c 
e 
d 
; 
16 
a 
"b 
c 
e 
d 
/ 
„ 23 
c 
d 
e 
/ 
„ 30 
c 
d 
e 
/ 
June 6 
"h 
a 
c 
d 
e 
/ 
„ 13 
h 
a 
c 
d 
e 
/ 
„ 20 
h 
a 
c 
d 
e 
/ 
„ 27 
a 
h 
0 
/ 
Cut on June 27. 
d 
0 
f 
e 
September 5 ... 
a 
"b 
f 
e 
The plants in boxes 5 and 6 sufiered considerably from drought. 
All the plants did badly after the cutting. 
Further remarks are omitted for the same reasons as those 
mentioned under Foa annua. 
Bromus. 
The plants in the unmanured box presented an uneven growth 
and a low degree of vigour throughout the whole of the summer 
and autumn of 1870 ; but it is worthy of note that in the spring 
of 1871 the plants remaining in this box were more vigorous 
than any of the rest. 
The growth of the plants under the influence of mineral manures 
was subject to fluctuation and never reached a high degree. At the 
time of cutting, the plants were somewhat sickly, and their state of 
maturity comparatively early. 
Ammonia salts produced an uneven plant of medium degree of 
development. 
