SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE, FEBRUAKY 28. 
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iEsculi. It was received from Mr. N. Nutter, of Lcigham Cottage, St. 
Julien, Old Streatliam. The best remedies for this and boring-beetles 
is to run a stout wire up the gallery, and so pierce the grubs. Petroleum 
or spirits of turpentine poured down the hole would also probably be 
effective in destroying them. 
Bichardia, two-spathed. — Rev. H. F. Goffe, Thoresway, Caistor, for- 
warded a specimen in which the uppermost leaf had assumed the form 
of an additional spathe — a not uncommon phenomenon. It was suggested 
that experiments might be made, if thought desirable, to fix this 
peculiarity. 
Cedar ivith Aerial Boots. — The following communication was received 
from Mr. J. W. Odell, The Grove, Stanmore, together with photographs of 
the tree described, and a large mass of aerial roots : — " During the recent 
heavy gales considerable damage was done to one of the large Cedars of 
Lebanon in Mrs. Brightwen's grounds here : a huge branch was torn 
from the parent trunk, and revealed a very curious growth of aerial roots. 
I forward to you with this letter photographs showing the broken branch 
in two positions, and also a part of the very large growth of adventitious 
roots. You will observe on photograph (marked .4) a large scar, corre- 
sponding in size and shape to the base of the branch on photograph 
marked B. The roots sent were growing from the edges of the conti- 
guous portions of thetrnnk and broken branch, and grew downwards from 
this position towards the base of the tree, but had only penetrated so far 
as is indicated by a small branch at the base of the scar (seen on both 
photographs). Both on the branch and on the scar left on the trunk the 
wood is very much splintered, and the roots were found not only in a 
large mass as sent, but also growing in between the splintered portions 
of the wood. The appearance of the fracture indicates, I think, some 
previous injury (perhaps by lightning), and as a consequence some 
moisture may have penetrated into the union between the trunk and the 
branch. I have once or twice before seen similar roots in broken 
pollarded Willows, but have never observed the formation of such 
adventitious roots in a Conifer, and thought perhaps it would have some 
little interest for your Committee of the E.H.S." 
Scientific Committee, Febeuaey 28, 1899. 
Dr. MuLLER, F.R.S., in the Chair, and five members present. 
Celery, dc, attacked by Grubs. — This was sent by Mrs. Barnet, of 
Bilton Hall, Rugby, and proved to be much infested by millepedes (vege- 
table eaters) and centipedes (insectivorous), but not wireworm. The best 
remedy for these troublesome grubs is gas-lime or ordinary slaked lime 
(builder's second quality), well mixed and dug in. It may possibly injure 
the next year's crop to some extent. 
Siveet Pea Seed. — Mr. Sutton described specimens of the seed of 
certain varieties grown at Reading, remarkable for the skins becoming 
wrinkled like a Marrowfat Pea ; while in one or two cases the Peas were 
so small that customers had thought they must be defective, whereas the 
