NOTES ON RECENT RESEARCH 



AND 



SHORT ABSTRACTS FROM CURRENT PERIODICAL 

 LITERATURE, BRITISH AND FOREIGN, 



AFFECTING 



HORTICULTURE & HORTICULTURAL SCIENCE. 



The endeavour commenced in volume xxvi. to enlarge the usefulness 

 of the Society's Journal, by giving an abstract of current Horticultural 

 periodical Hterature, has met with much appreciation. It has certainly 

 entailed vastly more labour than was anticipated, and should therefore 

 make the Fellows' thanks to those who have helped in the work all 

 the more hearty. 



There are still, we feel, some departments of Horticulture and 

 Horticultural Science very imperfectly represented in these abstracts, 

 and the Editor would be grateful if any who have time at command, 

 and who are willing to help in any special direction in this work, 

 would communicate with him. He desires to express his most grateful 

 thanks to all who co-operate in the work, and he ventures to express 

 the hope that they will all strictly adhere to the general order and 

 scheme of working, as the observance of an identical order renders 

 subsequent reference to the original easy. The order agreed on is as 

 follows : — 



1. To place first the name of the plant, disease, pest, &c., being 

 noticed ; and in this, the prominent governing or index word should 

 always have precedence. 



2. To place next the name, when given, of the author of the 

 original article. 



3. Then, the abbreviated form of the name of the journal, &c., 

 in which the original article appears, taking care to use the abbreviation 

 which will be found on pp. 609, 610. 



4. After this, a reference to the number, date, and page of the 

 journal in question. 



5. If an illustration be given, to note the fact next, as "fig.," 

 " tab.," or " plate." 



