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JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Smith, Martin R., Hayes Common, Beckenham. 

 Speed, W., Penrhyn Castle Gardens. 

 Sutton, Arthur W., F.L.S., Reading. 

 Thomas, Owen, Royal Gardens, Windsor. 

 Thomson, David, Drumlanrig, N.B. 

 Thompson, William, Ipswich. 

 Turner, H., Slough. 



Willmott, Miss Ellen, War ley Place, Great Warley, 



Essex. 



Wilson, George F., F.R.S., F.L.S., &c, Heatherbank, 



Wey bridge Heath. 

 Wolley-Dod, Rev. C, M.A., Edge Hall, Malpas, Cheshire. 

 Wright, John, Rose Hill Road, Wandsworth. 

 Wythes, George, Syon House Gardens, Brentford. 



MICROSCOPIC GARDENING. 



By H. Marshall Ward, D.Sc, F.R.S., F.L.S., F.R.H.S., 

 Professor of Botany in the University of Cambridge. 



[Read March 9, 1897.] 



1 u: member being much impressed by the accounts of the 

 forests of fungoid vegetation described in some of the micro- 

 wopio authorities of twenty-five to thirty years ago, and even 

 now it seems difficult to view calmly such sketches as Carpenter's 

 of tin; forest to be found in the stomach of a beetle, or Hogg's 

 section of a grape, though the enthusiasm these figures evoke 

 pilai when compared with that stimulated by the magnificent 

 drawings which the Tulasnes have given us of gardens and 

 forests of microscopic fungi. It is everyday knowledge now 

 that BUofa forests of fungi and other microscopic plants can be 

 stun on any piece of decaying vegetable or animal remains, 

 bat with increasing familiarity with the phenomenon we trace 

 the origin and progress of quite different views as to the 

 significant of these microscopic organisms. 



Long prior to tin Lime 1 have referred to, indeed, and even 



