TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



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I. On Hybridism considered as a cause of variability in Vegetables. By 



M. Ch. Naudin 1 



II. Hypocaust-IIeating. By C. Wykeham Martin, Esq., M.P 10 



IH, Note on Truffles and Truffle-Culture. By C. E. Broome, Esq 15 



IV. Variegated Plants of the Seventeenth Centurv. By tlie Rev. M. J. 



Berkeley, M.A., F.L.S " 22 



V. On a Parasitic Fungus which causes Spot in Orchids. By the Rev. 



M. J. Berkeley, M.A., F.L.S 25 



VI. Note upon Cotoneaster Simmonm. By J. Bateman, Esq., F.R.S. . . 28 



VII. Dendrobium hedyosmum (Sweet-smelling Dendrobium). By J. 



Bateman, Esq., F.R.S 29 



VIII. A short Note on different Varieties of Amaryllis. By Mr. Jamks 



Anderson , 30 



IX. A few Remarks concerning Soil and Climate in relation to the Cul- 

 tivation of Fruit Trees. By Mr. W. Ingram, Belvoir Gardens . . 82 



X. On Variability in the Pear-tree, the result of Experiments made at 

 the Museum of Natural History from 1853 to 1802. By M. J. 

 Decaisne 36 



XI. Note on the Floral Organogeny of the Pear-tree. By M. J. Decaisne 46 



XII. Note on the effect of crossing some of the Southern Vines of France 



with the variety Le Teinturier 40 



XIII. Vineyard Culture in France. By the Rev. M. J. Berkeley, M.A.. 



F.L.S : 51 



XIV. Abstract of Max Wichura's Observations on Hybridization. By the 



Rev. M. J. Berkeley, M.A., F.L.S 57 



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