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over-ripe. The Committee expressed a desire to see it again, 

 with particulars as to the habit of the tree, &c. 



Lord Foley, Ruxley Lodge, E slier (gardener, Mr. W. Miller), 

 sent a dish of Apple Claygate Pearmain. 



Messrs. E. Veitch & Son, The Nurseries, Exeter, sent Apple 

 Ashford Seedling, a favourite Devonshire market variety, about 

 which the Committee requested to have further information. 



Mr. Cecil H. Hooper, Swanley, sent a variety of small baskets 

 for packing fruit. 



SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE. 



Professor A. H. Chuech, F.R.S., in the Chair, and eight 

 members present. 



Effects of London Fog on Plants. — Mr. Morris read the terms 

 of an application for a sum of money from the Government 

 grant administered by the Royal Society, to be devoted to the 

 partial payment of the expenses connected with an inquiry into 

 the composition of London fog, with special reference to those 

 of its constituents that are injurious to plants. 



Fruit of Loranthus. — Mr. Morris stated, on the authority of 

 Professor Oliver, that the fruit of Loranthus attached to the 

 panicle of the Sugar-cane, exhibited at a previous meeting, was 

 L. americanus. 



Sugar-cane Borer. — Mr. Blandford reported that the moth 

 mentioned at the last meeting, as injuring Sugar-canes in St. 

 Vincent, was Diatraea saccharalis. The beetle alluded to on the 

 same occasion is known as Xyleborus perforans, and was 

 originally described by Wollaston in his Catalogue of the 

 Coleopter a of Madeira, p. 96. It occasions great injury to the 

 bungs of the wine-casks in Madeira. Wollaston found it 

 commonly feeding in the stems of Jatropha curcas. 



Seedlings of Sugar-cane. — Mr. Morris, in continuation of 

 information placed before the Committee on December 10, 

 exhibited specimens of mature seeds of the common Sugar-cane 

 (Saccharum officinarum). There were also shown germinating 

 seeds, some plants, drawings of the flower, and dissections of the 

 fruit (caryopsis) in detail. Mr. Morris stated that there appeared 

 to be no authentic record of any really wild station for the Sugar- 

 cane ; further that the fruit of the Sugar-cane was not known 



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