liV PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Lindley's Theory and Practice of Horticulture, p. 207. With 

 regard to exposed plants injured by frost in Kew Gardens, Mr. 

 Dyer added that, notwithstanding the long persistence of a 

 low temperature at Kew, the bulk of the shrubs and evergreen 

 trees did not at the close show the amount of injury which might 

 have been anticipated. As soon as the sun came out, and milder 

 weather followed the frost, the shrubs began to go off wholesale, 

 the green colour of the leaves disappeared, and they turned, not 

 brown, as in autumn, but pale and grey. His conviction was, 

 that they bore the low temperature with comparative immunity, 

 but that they could not bear the sudden transition from a low 

 temperature to a high one. Mr. Morris informed him that pre- 

 cisely similar phenomena are observed at high levels in the tro- 

 pics after frost. Mr. Wilks's theory that the shrubs are killed at 

 the base is not the explanation at Kew, though, from local cir- 

 cumstances, it may be true of his own garden ; and certainly it 

 is not the case that any of the shrubs pushed forth buds before 

 their premature decease. 



GENERAL MEETING. 

 Apeil 21, 1891. 

 Sir Chas. W. Steickland, Bart., in the Chair. 

 Elections. 



Fellows, 17.— F. Brewer, T. P. Caldicott, S. Castle, John E. 

 Cockett, W. F. Cooling, J. S. Cousens, W. Stewart Forster, T. 

 Gabriel, Montague Gluckstein, W. T. Hindmarsh, F.L.S., P. L. 

 Hudden, Mrs. Hudden, Lieut. W. P. C. Lethbridge, F. W. Moore, 

 T. W. Platten, H. B. Eowan, and E. E. M. Boyds. 



Society Affiliated, 1. — Northamptonshire Horticultural So- 

 ciety. 



A Paper on " Cape Bulbs " was read by Mr. James O'Brien, 

 F.R.H.S. {see p. 232). 



FLORAL COMMITTEE. 



W. Maeshall, Esq., in the Chair, and thirteen members 

 present. 

 Awards Recommended:— 



Silver Flora Medal. 

 To Messrs. Barr & Son, Covent Garden, for a beautiful group 

 of Daffodils (in variety), Anemone fulgens, &c. 



