TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
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I. On the Production of Honey-Dew. Translated in Abstract from a Memoir 
by M. Boussingault {Compies Rendus, Jan. 8, 1872), by W. T. Thiselton 
Dyer, B.A., B.Sc, F.L.S 1 
II. On the Fertilisation of Grasses. By J. Boswell-Syme, LL.D., F.L.S 7 
III. On Eecent Progress in the Scientific Aspects of Horticulture. By W. T. 
Thiselton Dyer, B.A., B.Sc, Professor of Botany to the Royal Horticul- 
tural Society 9 
IV. The Relative Influence of Parentage in Flowering Plants. By J. Denny, 
M.D 16 
V. On a Thermometer for Taking Temperature at the Roots of Plants. By 
James Glaisher, F.R.S 26 
VI. On a Dry and Wet Bulb Thermometer. By James Glaisher, F.R.S 26 
VII. On Draccena and Cordyline. By J. G. Baker, F.L.S., Assistant Curator of 
the Kew Herbarium , 27 
VIII. Do FUes eat Pollen? By Alfred W. Bennett, M.A., B.Sc, F.L.S 30 
IX. Report of the Chiswick Board of Direction 33 
X. Report of the Professor of Botany 37 
XI, On Pteris scrrulato-tremula. By Thomas Moore, F.L.S., Floral Director to 
the Royal Horticultural Society (with Plate V.) 38 
XII. A Classified Synonymic List of all the Known Lilies, with their Native 
Countries, and References to the Works where they are Figured. By J. 
G. Baker, F.L.S., Assistant Curator of the Kew Herbarium 39 
XIII. Note on Phylloxera vastatrix. By Mr. Malcolm Dunn 49 
XIV. On the Cultivation of the Olive near Ventimiglia. By Mr. L. Winter 50 
XV, Rainfall at Medellin, New Grenada, South America. Communicated by 
Mr. Wilson W. Saunders, F.R.S 52 
XVr. Meteorological Observations taken at the Royal Horticultural Society's 
Gardens, Chiswick, by W. Spinks. Reduced by R. Strachan, Meteoro- 
logical Office 53 
Extracts from Proceedings of the Royal Horticultural Society, and Miscel- 
laneous Matter i — viii 
ADVERTISEMENT. 
Fellows and Correspondents" of the Society are invited to communicate materials 
for this Journal, under cover, to the Rev. M. J. Berkeley, Sibbertoft, Market Har- 
borough, or Prof. Thiselton Dyer, Royal Hort. Soc, South Kensington. 
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