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90° ill the shade. I asked him if they found that the drainage 

 warmed the soil and made the crops earlier ; and he told me it 

 was being largely carried on for this reason. No doubt the nature 

 of the Canadian apples helps to explain a part of this, as all I 

 have seen that I knew were Canadian were very light for the size. 

 I give this for what it is worth, that it may be confirmed or dis- 

 proved, but I believe it will prove to be no exaggeration. It will 

 thus be easily seen how interested I was with this paper, " on 

 Border-heating," by the Rev. W. Kingslcy; and I think he will 

 take as much pleasure in examining these tables collected by the 

 Royal Horticultural Society at my suggestion. 



The daily history of the life of this crop of grapes is of itself a 

 valuable paper, and I know of no treatise on the vine that con- 

 tains such a one ; but yet we want still more of such ; and I hope 

 next year to obtain one from a house where no heat but sun-heat 

 can be obtained, and which yet produces yearly a very heavy crop 

 of good grapes: but we also want, on "standard authority," the 

 relative advantages of the different sorts of houses now built ; and 

 I venture to think that this is as much within the sphere of useful- 

 ness of the Royal Horticultural Society, as the trials of the various 

 merits of fruit. It is said that the Council are anxious to make 

 their garden at Chiswick as useful as their means will permit ; and 

 I believe this is true. My intention is not to raise a discussion as 

 to whether what I propose is within their means or not, but 

 simply as a producer of fruit I wish to obtain this knowledge, and, 

 as I have said, I am willing to contribute towards the expense. 



XXXVL Note on Asplenium ebenoicles, Scott. 

 By the Rev. M. J. Berkeley, M.A., F.L.S. 

 A note by Mr. D. C. Eaton appeared in the ' Gardeners' Chro- 

 nicle/ August 18, 1866, p. 780, in which he states that Asplenium 

 ehenoides is the same as A. Hendersonii. I have not been able to 

 obtain a specimen of that supposed species, as Mr. Henderson has 

 unfortunately been quite incapacitated for more than a twelve- 

 month for making the least exertion, and what has been trans- 

 mitted to me is something totally different. A simple inspection, 

 however, of Mr. Lowe's figure, added to the fact that the plant is 

 not proliferous, is quite sufficient to convince one that Mr. Scott's 

 and Mr. Henderson's plants are perfectly distinct. Both were 

 solitary specimens, the one occurring naturally, the other acci- 



