XXXVi PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



horticulture, and he moved a resolution in the following terms, which 

 was seconded by Mr. Douglas, V.M.H., and carried nem. con. and 

 ordered to be sent to the Council : " That, in the opinion of the Scientific 

 Committee, it is highly desirable in the interests of British horticulture 



Fig. 71. — Primula Maxtmowiczii. {Gardeners' Chronicle.) 



that a new edition of Pritzel's Iconuni Botanicarurn Index locuplefis- 

 simus should be published as soon as possible under the auspices and 

 at the expense of the Society unless a German edition is actually in 

 prospect ; and they suggest that a sub-committee should be appointed 

 to go into the question of the probable cost, etc. " 



