SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE, AUGUST 3 AND 17. 



cxxi 



Scientific Committee, August 3, 1909. 



Mr. E. A. Bowles, M.A., F.L.S., F.E.S., in the Chair, and seven members 



present. 



Diseased Water Lilies. — Mr. Saunders, F.L.S., reported that he had 

 been unable to discover any insect or fungus pest upon the water lilies 

 sent to the last meeting, and he considered it probable that the condition 

 of the water, which smelt very unpleasant, was the cause of the death of 

 the plants. 



Sparrows and Water Lilies. — Mr. Hales showed leaves of water 

 lilies with a large number of scratches upon them, caused by sparrows' 

 feet. The sparrows stand upon the leaves in order to reach the water, 

 and scratch the leaves in their endeavour to retain their balance. 



Poinciana regia.—M.r. S. P. Lancaster, of Alipur, Calcutta, sent 

 drawings illustrating the variation in the gorgeous flowers of this 

 beautiful plant. 



Green Sweet Pea. — Rev. W. Wilks, M.A., exhibited flowers of a sweet 

 Pea of a yellowish-green colour. The plants had come true from seed. 



Malformed Pea. — Mr. E. E. Turner, Coggeshall, sent a flower of the 

 culinary pea showing axial proliferation and various malformations, 

 particularly in producing free stamens and regular petals in some of the 

 small proliferated flowers. 



Cones of Pinus Sabiniana. — Mrs. Hadley, of Parkside, Reigate, sent 

 two huge cones of this pine from a tree grown in her garden which had 

 carried five cones. 



Bose leaf ivith stipules to leaflets. — Mr. Saunders showed a specimen 

 of rose leaves with stipules to the leaflets which he had gathered in a 

 garden near Dorking. 



Scientific Committee, August 17, 1909. 



Mr. E. A. Bowles, M.A., F.L.S , F.E.S., in the Chair, and eight members 



present. 



Variation in seedling Carnations. — Mr. Douglas, V.M.H., showed 

 numerous flowers of seedling tree carnations raised from seed saved from 

 self-coloured varieties. He pointed out that among them were several 

 singles in the proportion of about 12 per cent, of the whole, but the 

 greatest peculiarity lay in the large number of striped flowers which were 

 produced. The parents were white, pink, or red, but among the progeny 

 was one with yellow flowers striped with purple. 



Proliferation in Campanula. — Mr. Bowles showed specimens of 

 C. persicifolia with axial proliferation, a number of green foliage leaves 

 growing from the centre of the flower. Some of the shoots, which 

 were from the garden of Mrs. Trotter, Hill House, Wormley, also showed 

 fasciation. 



Gerbera not flowering. — Heads of Gerbera were received, the sender 

 thinking they were from a plant of Gerbera Jamesonii which had failed 

 to produce flowers before seeding, but the heads were from G. Kunzeana, 



