iNOTES ON RECENT EESEARCH 



AND 



SHORT ABSTRACTS FROM CURRENT PERIODICAL 

 LITERATURE, BRITISH AND FOREIGN, 



AFFECTING 



HORTICULTURE 



AND 



HORTICULTURAL AND BOTANICAL SCIENCE. 



In order to enlarge the usefulness of the Society's Journal we hope in 

 future to give in each issue an abstract or short digest of all current 

 Horticultural and Botanical periodical literature, British, Colonial, Ameri- 

 can, and Continental. A list of the Journals, &c., from which it is pro- 

 posed to make abstracts is given below, together with the abbreviations 

 used for the title of each. The list probably errs considerably on the 

 side of omission, and we shall be grateful to anyone who will draw our 

 attention to any publication of interest which should be included. 



The work can only be done by a number of persons joining together 

 for the purpose, each taking one or more of the Journals, Bulletins, 

 or Reports, and making himself responsible for providing quarterly 

 abstracts of them. Anyone with time at command and willing to help 

 in this work should communicate wdth the editor, who is deeply grateful 

 to those who have already ofiered assistance, whose names are given below. 



In the course of making such abstracts as are intended, one will 

 occasionally come across a really very important article, &c., deserving of 

 a longer and more serious treatment. Such Notes we intend to place in 

 a separate class under the heading of Notes on Recent Research." 



In a work undertaken by a number of persons, working quite independ- 

 ently and unable even to consult one another, some diversity of method 

 will (certainly at first) be unavoidable, but it is hoped that as the workers 

 see the produce of each other's labours they will intuitively recognise the 

 better methods and in future conform themselves as nuich as possible 

 thereto. 



In this, the first issue, one thing only has been agreed upon, viz. : to 



