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ROYAL HOETICTJLTUEAL SOCIETY. 
Dr. "Weltwitsch read an interesting paper on the Loranthacese 
of Angola, which will be published in the Journal. 
The Meeting then adjourned. 
GENERAL MEETING. 
J. Bateman, Esq., F.R.S., in the Chair. 
M. Antoine, Director of the Imperial Garden of Vienna, was 
received by the Council in his official capacity as delegate from 
the Austro- Hungarian Government. 
Mr. Wilson commented on the Lilies which he cultivates with 
such success. He found from experience that the best mode of 
out-of-doors culture is to plant in deep beds of peat amongst dwarf 
Bhododendrons. Some, however, succeed in the boulder-clay of 
the Upper Lias, a single plant of Lilium Sovitzianum having in 
such a situation borne sixteen flowers, all open at the same time 
and affording a magnificent spectacle. 
The Chairman read a communication from Mr. Anderson re- 
specting some of his cut flowers. One of the flowers of Odonto- 
glossum Alexandres had been fertilized by a bee, the effect of which 
is at once to impair the texture, the mere abstraction of the pol- 
len masses not having the same effect. It is treated with abund- 
ance of atmospheric moisture during the growing-season, but is 
kept quiet in winter, being reduced as a minimum to 60° and a 
mean of 67° for at least three of the darkest months. 
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE. 
Chiswick, June 25. 
A. Mtjeeay, Esq., E.L.S., in the Chair. 
On inspecting the seed-boxes it was found that the plants had 
for the most part grown too thick and close to allow a fair com- 
parison to be instituted, and in some instances they had even 
begun to decay. This was ascribed to their having been too thickly 
sown and to the soil having been too rich. It was therefore re- 
solved : — 1st. That they should be cut over and allowed to start 
