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Price (to Non-Fellows) 15s. JUNE 1907. 



Vol. XXXII. 



THE 



JOURNAL 



OF THE 



Boyal Hoiliculiuial Sociely 



EDITED BY 



G. S. SAUNDERS, F.L.S., F.E.S. 



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CONTENTS. 



A Japanese Garden In England. By James Hudson, V.M.H 1 



The Formation and Care of Lawns and Golf greens. By M. H. F. Sutton 11 



Garden Nomenclature. By G. W. Bulman, M.A., B.Sc 25 



Parasitic and Saprophytic Plants. By the Rev. Prof. G. Henslow. M.A. 37 



Animated Photographs of Plants. By Mrs. Dukinfield H. Scott, F.L.S. 48 



Phenology as an Aid to Horticulture. By Edward Mawley, V.M.H. ... 52 

 Some Phases of Twentieth-Century Horticulture in the United States. 



By Prof. Corbett (of Washington City) ... 58 



Tea and the Tea Plant. By Sir George Watt, C.I. E., &c 64 



On Some Remarkable Adaptations of Plants to Insects. By the Rev. 



Prof. G. Henslow, M.A., V.M.H 97 



Meteorology in its Relation to Horticulture. By R. H.Curtis, F.R. Met. Soc. 104 



Education of the Cottage and Market Gardener. By T. S. Dymond ... 113 



Perfumes : Their Source and Extraction. By John C. Umney, F.C S. ... 123 

 On the Origin and Peculiarities of Climbing Plants. By the Rev. Prof. 



G. Henslow, M.A., V.M.H 141 



The Value of Fruit as Food. By Dr. Josiah Oldfield 144 



Horticultural Education. By F. J. Baker, A.R.C.Sc 152 



Researches at Wisley. By G. Massee. F.L.S. , V.M.H. 163 



The West Indian Lime. By Archibald J. Brooks, F.R. H.S 172 



Notes on Some Cornish Gardens, and on Some Wild Plants growing 



about Land's End. By A. Worsley 189 



Annotated List of the Species of Campanula. By Col. R. H. Beddome 196 



The Cultivation of Grapes in Daulatabad. By Syed Siraj-ul-Hasan ... 222 



.Mendel s Law of Heredity. By C. C. Hurst, F.L.S 227 



Report on Meteorological Observations at Wisley. By Mr. R. H. Curtis 230 



Report of the Consulting Chemist, Dr. J. A. Voelcker, M.A. 240 



Exhibition of South African Fruit. By the Rev. W. Wilks, M.A 243 



Notes and Abstracts 247 



Commonplace Notes 285 



Reviews of Books 290 



List of Books added to the Library 312 



Donors of Seeds, Plants, Trees, &c. to the Gardens at Wisley 314 



Examination of Men employed in Public Parks and Gardens 320 



Trials at Wisley. Flowering Plants and Vegetables, &c 323 



Meetings :— General, p. r ; Scientific Committee, p. Iviii ; Floral Com- 

 mittee, p. xcviii ; Fruit and Vegetable Committee, p. cxxxvi ; Nar- 

 cissus and Tulip Committee, p. cl ; Orchid Committee, p. civii. 



Notices to Fellows ... ccxvii 



Indices: I., Figures and Illustrations, ccxxlx ; II., General, ccxxxi. 



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