NOTES ON RECENT RESEARCH 



AND 



SHORT ABSTRACTS FROM CURRENT PERIODICAL 

 LITERATURE, BRITISH AND FOREIGN, 



AFFECTING 



HORTICULTURE 



AND 



HORTICULTURAL AND BOTANICAL SCIENCE. 



Judging by the number of appreciative letters received, the endeavour, 

 commenced in our last volume, to enlarge the usefulness of the Society's 

 Journal, by giving an abstract of current Horticultural and Botanical 

 periodical literature, has met with success. It has certainly entailed vastly 

 more labour than was anticipated, and should therefore make the 

 Fellows' thanks to all who have helped in the work all the more hearty. 



That anything approaching perfection either in method or execution 

 should have been achieved as yet is not to be expected, but the Editor 

 desires to express his most grateful thanks to all who co-operate in this 

 work for the very large measure of success already attained, and he 

 ventures to express the hope that they will all strictly adhere to the 

 general order and scheme of working, as the observance of an identical 

 order can alone enable the Editor to continue to cope with the work. 

 The order agreed on was as follows : — 



1. To place first the name of the plant, disease, pest, &c, being 

 noticed ; and in this, the prominent governing or index word should always 

 have precedence. 



2. To place next the name, when given, of the author of the original 

 article. 



3. Then, the abbreviated form of the name of the journal, &c, in which 

 the original article appears, taking care to use the abbreviation which will 

 be found on pp. 222, 223. 



4. After this, a reference to the number, date, and page of the journal 

 in question. 



