CCXXVi PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



by the pollen of some other flower of the same variety (' Miss M. Ander- 

 son'). All the seedlings exhibited great irregularity in the flowers, 

 they were all ' bad ones ' from a florist's standpoint, most of them 

 were quilled to some extent, and the plant of which I now exhibit 

 flowers is, as you will see, both regularly quilled and truly ' anemone- 

 flowered.' 



"It is possible that the quilled form of Chrysanthemum was known 

 in Japan at the time that the genus was first introduced into European 

 gardens, but in the plate shown in the Botanical Magazine it is not 

 clear if the artist intended to depict a truly quilled form, or if his 

 ' quills ' were meant to delineate petals not yet unrolled." 



Mr. Shea remarked that Chrysanthemums rarely set seed with- 

 out cross-pollination, and suggested that the pollen may have been 

 brought by insects from a neighbouring garden. The earliest drawing 

 of a Chrysanthemum was exhibited, and apparently showed traces of 

 quilled flowers, so that the early-introduced plants no doubt brought 

 this character with them. 



Carnation-Chrysanthemum Graft. — A correspondent from Greenock 

 sent Chrysanthemum flowers from plants which he claimed to have 

 grafted on Carnation stocks, and said that the flowers varied from 

 those of the plants from which the scions were taken. The Committee 

 were unable to see whether the grafting had actually occurred or 

 whether the scions had produced roots, and sought further information. 



Organisms in an Orchid House. — Some curious seeds were referred 

 to the Committee by the Orchid Committee, to whom they had been 

 sent as insects which infested an Orchid house, without, however, 

 any damage being traceable to them. They were the seeds of some 

 plant, probably an Oxalis, which had been scattered by the plant 

 over the house, and bore a distant resemblance to minute beetles, 

 without legs. 



Multiple Pear. — Mr. C. T. Druery, V.M.H., showed a multiple 

 fruit of Pear formed from a summer flower in a garden at Acton. It 

 appeared to consist of parts of four Pears in close contact, but was no 

 doubt derived partly at least from the cortical tissues of the lower 

 parts of the flower-stalk (see p. ccxxvi.). 



Peloric Catileya. — Mr. G. Wilson, F.L.S., showed a peloric form 

 of Cattleya labiata alba, remarking that peloric forms of albinos were 

 decidedly rare. 



Iresine Sporting. — Mr. Longmire, of Clapham Common, showed 

 a shoot of Iresine acuminata, in which the normal red foliage had 

 been replaced on one side of the shoot by green leaves yellowish along 

 the veins. The leaves and shoots were arranged so that alternate 

 leaves on the one side of the stem were green, while the intervening 

 leaves were half green and half red. The shoots in the axils of these 

 leaves were green or half green and half red respectively. Shoots 

 propagated from either side came true to these variations. 



