JOUENAL 



OF THE 



Royal Horticultural Society. 



Vol. XVIII. 1895. 



PART I. 

 CONFERENCE ON TREES, 



Held at Chiswick Gardens, September 25, 1894. 



Hardly ever, if ever, in the history of the Society has such a 

 magnificent and interesting collection of specimens of Hardy 

 Trees and Shrubs been brought together at one time, and hardly 

 ever, if ever, has the weather been so entirely, so absolutely 

 pitiless ; it rained unceasingly from morn till night, so that 

 comparatively few Fellows and visitors were able to be present. 



The chair was taken at 12 o'clock by W. T. Thiselton Dyer, 

 Esq., C.M.G., and the following papers were communicated : — 



THE LARCH CANKER. 



By Mr. J. B. Carruthers, F.L.S., the College of 

 Agriculture, Downton. 



The canker which occurs in fruit and timber trees has long been 

 an enemy of no mean importance to the growers of such trees, 

 so that any information which may lead to the exact knowledge 

 of one or other of these diseases will be welcomed by practical 

 men. Professor Marshall Ward (Professor of Forestry at Cooper's 

 Hill College), whose work on the parasitic diseases affecting 

 British timber-trees has been of much value, in one of his 



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