iv PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



FRUIT COMMITTEE. 



P. Ceowley, Esq., F.L.S., in the Chair, and eighteen members 



present. 



Award Recommended :— 



Silver Banhsian Medal. 

 To Mr. J. Watkins, Pomona Farm, Withington, Hereford, 

 for a fine collection of culinary and dessert Apples (fifty varieties) 

 in wonderfully fresh condition and highly coloured, the most 

 noteworthy varieties being Beauty of Wilts, Stoke Edith Pippin, 

 Dumelow's Seedling, Tyler's Kernel, Gloria Mundi, Kirke's Fame, 

 Golden Nobb, Warner's King, Beauty of Kent, King of the 

 Pippins, Striped Beefing, Bedfordshire Foundling, Mere de 

 Menage, Court Pendu Plat, Royal Somerset, Old Winter Queen- 

 ing, and Reinette de Canada. Mr. Watkins also sent a most 

 interesting collection of Cider Apples. 



SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE. 



Dr. Maxwell T. Masters, F.E.S., &c, in the Chair, and ten 

 members present. 



Culture of Yeast. — Prof. Marshall Ward announced that he 

 had succeeded in confirming Hansen's statement that yeast-cells 

 might be made to produce their endospores by cultivation on 

 dry gelatine at a temperature of 25° to 27° C. (say 80° F.). 



Proliferous Oranges. — Two specimens, from Mr. Tharpe and 

 Dr. J. Harvey Gibson respectively, were shown, in which a second 

 smaller Orange provided with its rind was enclosed within 

 another. Dr. Bonavia, in commenting on these specimens, ex- 

 plained his views that the rind of the Orange is really the repre- 

 sentative of an outer abortive row of carpels, and that the 

 oil-cells of the rind are the modified equivalents of the pulp- 

 cells. 



Dr. Scott pointed out that, according to De Bary, the oil- 

 glands of Citrus were " lysignetic," or the result of the breaking 

 down of certain transitory cells ; these cells are smaller than 

 those of the rest of the leaf-tissue and full of granular protoplasm, 

 which is soon replaced by minute drops of ethereal oil. As the 

 delicate partitions between these cells break down and disappear, 

 the small oil-globules coalesce, so as to form one large drop. 



