NOTES ON RECENT RESEARCH 



AND 



SHORT ABSTRACTS FROM CURRENT PERIODICAL 

 LITERATURE, BRITISH AND FOREIGN, 



AFFECTING 



HORTICULTURE 



AND 



HORTICULTURAL AND BOTANICAL SCIENCE. 



Judging by the number of appreciative letters received, the endeavour, 

 commenced in the last number, to enlarge the usefulness of the Society's 

 Journal, by giving an abstract of current Horticultural and Botanical 

 periodical literature, has met with success. That it has entailed vastly 

 more labour than was anticipated goes without saying, and should make 

 the Fellows' thanks to all who have helped in the work all the more 

 hearty. 



That anything approaching perfection either in method or execution 

 should have been achieved in the first instance, was not for one moment 

 expected, but the Editor desires to express his most grateful thanks to all 

 who co-operate in this work for the very large measure of success already 

 attained by this new departure, and hopes that they will in the future as 

 strictly adhere to the general order and scheme of working as they have 

 in the first two attempts, as the observance of an identical order can alone 

 enable the Editor to continue to cope with the work. The order agreed 

 on was as follows : — 



1. To place first, the name of the plant, disease, pest, &c., being 

 noticed ; and in this, the prominent governing or index word should always 

 have precedence. 



2. To place next, the name, when given, of the author of the original 

 article. 



3. Then, the abbreviated form of the name of the journal, kc, in which 

 the original article appears, taking care to use the abbreviation which will 

 be found on page 497. 



