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into the hydrated oxide. He added that flowers of sulphur, though 

 an old remedy for foliage, proved injurious to roots, paralysing 

 root growth by the sulphur probably becoming oxidised and 

 giving rise to sulphurous acid. He suggested that it should never 

 be used as a top-dressing. Bulbs thus arrested had been exhi- 

 bited at a previous meeting. 



Having heard Mr. Buchanan's account, the Committee expressed 

 their willingness to give publicity to his statements ; but they 

 did not consider there was sufficient novelty in the preparation 

 to justify them in recommending experiments to be carried out 

 at the Society's gardens. Moreover, the question appeared to 

 them to be rather more of a commercial than scientific nature. 

 The Committee, however, thought that if private cultivators 

 would undertake to try it, its true value might soon be discovered 

 by testing the powder in various ways on different plants, as well 

 as by using the liquid preparations for comparison, to discover if 

 it were really preferable to the latter or not. 



THE GREAT FLOWER SHOW, 1891. 



Inner Temple Gardens, E.C. 



May 28 and 29. 



By the kind permission of the Treasurer and Masters of the 

 Bench, the Society was enabled, for the fourth time, to hold its 

 great City of London Flower Show in the gardens of the Inner 

 Temple on Thursday and Friday, May 28 and 29. The Gardens 

 were open to the public at one o'clock precisely, and at three 

 o'clock H.R.H. the Princess Christian, who was accompanied 

 by H.R.H. Prince Christian and their two daughters, arrived 

 and presented the Cups awarded to the most meritorious exhibits. 

 The Royal Party was conducted round the tents by Sir Trevor 

 Lawrence, Bart., M.P., the President of the Society, Baron 

 Henry Schroder, Vice-President, and other members of the 

 Council. 



The weather, although somewhat unsettled, with occasional 

 showers of rain, was on the whole fine, and the attendance 

 of visitors was larger than on any previous occasion. 



The band of H.M. Scots Guards, under the conductorship of 



