594 JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Non-Transferable Tickets or Fellows' Passes. 



Here is a very common complaint. " Is the rule as to the non-trans- 

 ferable pass of Fellows intended to be strictly carried out ? It seems hard 

 that a Fellow unable to attend a show personally should not be able to 

 send someone else to represent him ; it could be no possible loss to the 

 Society." We venture to think there is nothing at all hard in the rule 

 The financial part of the Society is based on the very reasonable rule of 

 " one free transferable ticket for each £1. Is." That being the case, a 

 Fellow who subscribes £2. 2s. should only have two such transferable 

 tickets. But the Society is so liberal that it says, " No, we will give you 

 yourself for your own private use an extra ticket, but you must promise 

 to only use it yourself, and not lend it to anyone under any circumstances." 

 Is it a hardship to receive this extra personal pass ? Surely not. The 

 hardship rather comes in when a Fellow, having accepted this extra 

 bonus of a personal pass, makes a claim to, or even asks to be allowed to, 

 use it as if it were transferable. To use it as transferable is very nearly 

 akin to defrauding, and to ask to be allowed so to use it is to put an 

 unfair strain on the Secretary's stock of politeness. We have heard of 

 people using other people's personal season railway tickets, but such 

 people are perfectly conscious they are defrauding the company, and yet 

 the train would run all the same and the seat to which AB is entitled 

 would be empty if CD did not use it instead ; yet everyone recognises that 

 CD is cheating the company, and has no measure of pity if he be caught 

 and imprisoned. We really fail to see the difference in the case of the 

 Society's Fellow's personal pass. 



Daffodil Yellow-Stripe Disease. 



As it is now the season of Daffodil growth, it would be well if every grower 

 would endeavour to decide what is the cause of the disease manifested by 

 yellow stripes in the foliage, and sometimes yellow stripes on the flower- 

 stalk, running on into white stripes in the yellow perianth. A vast 

 number of causes have been suggested, so many and various that it is 

 difficult to thrash anything probable out of the multitude of divergent 

 opinions. It comes so mysteriously too. One year your stock of Daffodils 

 may show broad deep-green foliage standing up erect and strong. Next 

 year one or two varieties will have their foliage striped with yellow and 

 the flower-stalks be bent and feeble, some possibly lying prone on the 

 ground. No fungus disease can be found ; it seems to be some essential 

 debility affecting the constitution of the whole plant. At one time we 

 had almost decided that it probably arose from poverty of soil, and then 

 the next year a whole bed of ' Princeps ' appears with "yellow-stripe," 

 except that an average of every tenth bulb is quite healthy and strong, 

 and as dark green, glaucous, and crisp as you could wish, and these 

 scattered fairly regularly all over the bed, seemingly proving that it is not 

 the soil. Here is another example : " I had last year one crown of 1 King 

 Alfred.' I divided it, planting three offsets in a row, and they are all 

 perfectly sound. But in the same row I planted some more from an 



