EXTRACTS OF PROCEEDINGS. 



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combe's Seedling, and South Lincoln Beauty. These were 

 believed not to be an improvement on sorts already in cultivation. 



Lord Foley, Ruxley Lodge, Esher (gardener, Mr. W. Miller), 

 sent fine examples of Mushrooms from an outside bed. 



Mr. Stott, Fulwood, Preston, sent the " Simplex " Manure 

 and Insecticide Distributor. 



Mr. Coates, Wallington, Surrey, sent a sample of his patent 

 " Anti-incrustator," for use in hot-water boilers. 



Mr. G. Bunyard proposed, and Mr. Harrison Weir seconded, 

 a vote of thanks to the Chairman and Vice- Chairmen for their 

 services during the year. This was carried unanimously. 



SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE. 



D. Moreis, Esq., F.L.S. (Treasurer R.H.S.), in the Chair, and 

 eight members present. 



Hybrid Bhododendron. — Mr. Veitch showed a hybrid Rhodo- 

 dendron between R. malayanum, a dwarf species, with the under 

 side of the leaves densely scaly, and a hybrid form named Monarch. 

 The new hybrid had luminous, orange-red flowers, and was almost 

 exactly intermediate in all its characteristics between the two 

 parents. 



Deformed Carrots. — Mr. Veitch showed a large number of 

 deformed Carrots, in which the crowns, instead of possessing a 

 single central bud, had branched into several, while the ordi- 

 narily single tap-root was also divided into several branches. The 

 roots had been grown on a dry brashy soil, in which there were 

 a large number of stones. During the hot dry weather in sum- 

 mer the soil was so dry and hard that the roots had difficulty in 

 penetrating it, and hence the energy of growth was directed 

 rather to the formation of supernumerary crown-buds and root 

 branches than to the ordinary tap-root. Professor Church 

 corroborated the view that the branching of the roots was due to 

 some mechanical obstacle in the soil. He had found not only 

 that the relative quantity of nitrogenous compounds was in excess 

 in such roots, but that the proportion of non-albuminoid nitrogen 

 was greater, showing that the elaboration of nitrogen-compounds 

 was less complete. Dr. Masters called attention to the presence 

 of a slime fungus in some cases of this kind. 



Seakale Boots. — Some roots of Seakale, rotten in the centre 



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