EXTRACTS OF PROCEEDINGS. 



XXV 



W. C. Wemyss, Esq., Westbury Court, Westbury-on-Trym, 

 sent a wooden tray as used for drying French Plums near 

 Bordeaux, and referred to in the Kew Bulletin for December 

 1890. 



P. Crowley, Esq., Waddon House, Croydon, sent samples of 

 Peach shoots, showing injury by frost where they had been 

 touched by the wires to which the trees had been trained. 



Death of Mr. C. Haycock. — It was proposed by Mr. G. 

 Bamford, and seconded by Mr. R. D. Blackmore, that a letter of 

 condolence be sent to Mrs. Haycock on the death of her husband 

 — a valued member of the Committee. 



SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE. 



W. T. Thiselton Dyeb, Esq., C.M.G., in the Chair, and ten 

 members present. 



Action of Galvanised Wire on Peach Trees. — The Bev. W. 

 Wilks showed specimens of the injuries observed on shoots of 

 Peach trees which were in contact with galvanised wire during 

 the recent severe frost. The shoots at the point of contact with 

 the wire were apparently blackened and frozen through, so that 

 the distal part of the shoot, although for a short time it retains 

 its healthy appearance, shortly dies of starvation. Similar illus- 

 trations have been before the Committee on other occasions. 



Effect of Fog on Plants. — Professor F. Oliver exhibited a 

 number of water-colour drawings showing the effect of fog on 

 the leaves and flowers of various plants ; but reserved a full 

 statement of his observations till a future time. 



The Aboriginal Chinese Primrose. — From Mr. Myles, Appley 

 Towers Gardens, Ryde, came plants of Primula sinensis, raised 

 from seed collected at Y- Chang by Mr. Pratt, under conditions 

 very unlike those under which the plant is cultivated in this 

 country. The history of the plant was alluded to at the Primula 

 Conference in 1886, and was also adverted to in Mr. Sutton's 

 paper on the Chinese Primrose, which was published in the 

 Journal of the Society, Vol. XIII., pt. I., 1891, p. 99. 



Self-soivn Seedlings of Chamcerops Fortunei. — From the 

 same garden came seedling plants of this Palm, which is grow- 

 ing in the shrubberies at Appley Towers, and beneath whose 

 .shade a large number of seedlings spring up. 



