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EOYAL HORTICULTUfiAL SOCIETY. 
baskets of Tricolor Pelargoniums ; to Messrs. Dobson for herbaceous 
Calceolarias ; to Mr. W. Davis for Show Pelargoniums, excellent 
market varieties ; to Mr. W. Paul for cut Hoses ; to Messrs. 
Standish for Eucharis amazonica ; and to M. Verschaffelt for a 
very handsome pair of Bay Trees. 
FRUIT COMMITTEE. 
A First-class Certificate was given to Mr. J. Munro for his 
seedling Melon, " Little Heath," a scarlet-fleshed acquisition for 
early work, and which is very prolific. A Cultural Commendation 
was given to Mr. J. Tegg, gardener to J. Walter, Esq., for Black 
Hamburgh and Buckland Sweet "Water Grapes, and nicely-coloured 
fruit of Grosse Mignonne Peach. Mr. Gardiner sent Apricots and 
Pear shoots, to illustrate the beneficial effects of protecting the 
trees when in bloom with (Frigi Domo) canvas. Henry Webb, 
Esq., sent Pears attacked by a small fly, and ofi'ered a Prize of £5 
to anyone who will point out how the evil eff'ects of the insect can 
be prevented. Messrs. Carter's Prizes for First Crop Pea were 
taken by Mr. J. W. Chard, Mr. G. Brown being second, who was 
first in the other Class with Little Gem. 
SCIEOTIFIC COMMITTEE. 
W. W. Saunders, Esq., F.E.S., in the Chair. 
Mr. Berkeley made some remarks with respect to the Austra- 
lian Yine Disease, described in the Gardeners' Chronicle," 
May 4, 1872 (pp. 607-8), by Mr. McArthur. The spots on the 
berries were not the same as those on the stems ; they were uncon- 
nected with any fungoid growth, but the former were perhaps due 
to a Glceosporium or Phoma. He understood that in the year when 
the disease had been at its worst, there had been a rainfall of sixty 
inches; he concluded that this had something to do with the 
matter, though the disease appeared to have existed in Australia 
from the earliest period of Yine cultivation. 
Mr. Berkeley also exhibited a Yine shoot from his own 
vinery, which had rotted at the nodes in a quite unaccountable 
way. He could not help thinking that this had something in 
common with the disease which proved so fatal to Phalcsnopsis. 
Too much moisture at the roots, arising from the superabundant 
rainfall, was suggested as the cause of the malady in Mr. Berkeley's 
case. Leaves of an Apricot were shown, which appeared to have 
