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yet germinated. In cold and frosty weather the leaves have a curious habit 

 of infolding the margins until the blades are like small cylinders ; this 

 position continues until the return of mild weather, when very slowly they 

 resume their normal flat position. Prof. Kerner, in the Natural History 

 of Pla7its, says that from nine to eighteen buds are formed in the leaf axil 

 of Zantlioxylum, of which the middle one is the biggest, and grows out 

 during the following year into a short or long shoot. The other small 

 buds are kept in reserve in the cortex at the base of the shoot. This may 

 perhaps account for the fact that although the wood is hard and brittle, 

 yet the tree will answer easily to the knife, and can be kept in good shape 

 by pruning." 



Clubbing in Cabbages. — Mr. Douglas, V.M.H., stated that the appli- 

 cation of gas-lime in spring just before planting did no good at all. A 

 second application in June killed the Cabbages, but did no harm to the 

 Club-root fungus. 



Bulbs. — Dr. Masters showed from Mr. D. Turner three bulbs of 

 Narcissus one above another on a stem, the lowest bulb being the oldest. 

 It was suggested that they might have been kept out of the ground a long 

 time before planting. 



Bhododendron fasciated. — A specimen from Mr. A. Waterer was shown 

 in which a branch was fasciated, and the " crest" at the top of the branch 

 was succulent and fleshy. 



