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ROYAL HOKTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
FEUIT COMMITTEE. 
Cultural Commendations were awarded to Mr. Tillery for 
Violette Hative Nectarines, and to Mr. Miller, Worksop, for a 
large Providence Pine. Mr. Linden sent fruit of a new Pine, 
which was considered of great promise. 
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE. 
Andrew Mueray, Esq., F.L.S., in the Chair. 
A copy of a communication to the Foreign Office from H.M.'s 
Minister at Lisbon, alluding to the new Vine Disease in Portugal, 
was brought before the Committee. 
Dr. Masters made a statement with respect to the management 
of the Eoyal Gardens at Kew ; and the following resolution was 
proposed by Mr. Grote, seconded by Dr. Gilbert, and carried 
unanimously : — 
*' That the members of the Scientific Committee of the Royal Horticul- 
tural Society, having regard to the present question between Dr. Hooker 
and Mr. Ayrton, desire to express their sense of the importance of Dr. 
Hooker's efforts to maintain unimpaired the scientific character of Kew, as an 
establishment indispensable to Horticultural and Botanical Science ; and are 
further unanimous in giving their support to the memorial which has already 
been forwarded to Mr. Gladstone." 
Prof. Thiselton Dyer said, with reference to the hybrid seedlings 
which had been communicated by Mr. Anderson-Henry on May 15 
(see p. xix.), and in which the second generation exhibited extreme 
divergence both from their hybrid parent and the original species 
of which it was a cross, he could not refrain from suspecting some 
error. Every botanist who had examined the plants of the second 
generation had pronounced them without doubt to be ordinary 
Arahis hirsuta. (Mr. Anderson-Henry acquiesced in this opinion — 
Gard. Chron., 1872, p. 1040 — and allowed that some error must 
have been made.) 
GENERAL MEETING. 
J. Bateman, Esq., F.R.S., in the Chair. 
Prof. Thiselton Dyer said that Mr. Wilson's Lilium californicum 
was identified by Mr. Baker as L. carolinianum. The L. californicum 
