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thou5!;h some had none ; but there was no difference in keeping, taste, &c. 
The water was partly rain- and spring-water from a tank used to catch all 
the waste water. The ends of the wood above the bunch, about half an 
inch long, were rubbed with Thompson's styptic. The fruit-room was 
frequently fumigated with sulphur to keep insects and mice away. About 
120 bunches were thus kept, and I am not aware that any of them de- 
cayed except a few berries in April on some very close bunches. I attri- 
bute their keeping so sound to thorough ripening early in the season, firing 
hard, with top and front air on, a month or six weeks after the fruit was 
apparently ' finished.* We have practised this system for five years past 
with the same results, and have no difficulty in keeping White and Black 
Muscats in good condition till March. We had some this season till the 
fourth of that month, which were cut early last August. The latest date to 
which we have kept Lady Downe's in good condition was June 10. We 
exhibited a bunch three years ago on that date ; they were coloured in the 
July of the previous year." 
Mr. Temple received a Special Certificate and the thanks of the 
Committee for his letter. 
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE. 
A. G-ROTE, Esq., F.L.S., in the Chair. 
The Secretary exhibited a seedling leguminous plant in which 
strong shoots were produced from the axils of the cotelydons, 
which had themselves been destroyed, as also the main shoot. 
He remarked that in Centaurea he had observed, when the coty- 
ledons had been destroyed by insects, that the first pair of leaves 
assumed exactly the form of cotyledons. 
He also brought Yine-leaves which were densely and uniformly 
spotted, probably from drops of water having settled on them. 
Some Strawberry-leaves also were shown much spotted. The 
variety to which they belonged (Sir C. Napier) was said to be 
peculiarly liable to this condition. 
Mr. Glaisher brought fruit of the Horse-chestnut from the 
tree which he stated on a former occasion was partially parched 
by wind. The fruit on the exposed side was very imperfect. 
Dr. Welwifcsch brought a section of some Menispermaceous 
wood, where irregular zones of liber alternated with woody tissue. 
Mr. Miers, who has paid much attention to the Natural Order, 
considered it different from any thing he had before observed. 
