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the spade, Mr. Leonard stated that the weapon employed would 
depend to some extent on the species. For example, C.persicifolia 
would stand division by the spade, but many other Campanulas 
would not, and, personally, he preferred using the knife for all. 
Dr. Maxwell Masters referred to the trial of Campanulas 
that was being made at Chiswick with a view to arriving at some 
definite results regarding habits and nomenclature. He alluded 
to a plant known as C. j^seudo-Baimri, and demurred to apply- 
ing the word " pseudo " to any plant, which was either one 
thing or the other. If the plant in question was not C. Baineri, 
then why not give it a distinctive name of its own, instead of 
mixing it up with C. Baincri'> He had in his herbarium speci- 
mens of C. Ba 'meri and the form known as G. F. Wilson," but 
he really could not distinguish one from the other in a dried 
state. No doubt many variations were brought about by hybrid- 
ists. He had no objection whatever to intercrossing, provided 
the hybridist would only record his operations carefully, and 
indicate the parentage of the various hybrids produced by him. 
Dr. Masters then referred to C. isoijlujlla, which was a familiar 
plant at Mentone, but he thought very few had seen it — as he 
had — beautifully grown as a window-plant in some of the poor 
dwellings in Whitechapel. 
PRIMULA CONFERENCE. 
Held in the Drill Hall, James Street, Victoria 
Street, Westminster, April 28, 1895. 
The Chairman, Professor Michael Foster, F.R.S., in open- 
ing the proceedings, remarked that the Conference had been 
arranged with a view to increasing the amount of pleasure to be 
obtained from the culture of the various species of Primula. 
There were three ways of obtaining this result : (1) By pro- 
curing new plants from remote regions ; ('2) by practising the 
most successful methods of culture; and {})) by assisting 
Nature in tlic matter of hybridisation. 
Professor ]*\)ster cxprcsscul bis love for the whole l^riimila 
family, from the coinmou Prinuoso to the most civilised " 
