NOTES ON EECENT KESEARCH 



AND 



SHORT ABSTRACTS FROM CURRENT PERIODICAL 

 LITERATURE, BRITISH AND FOREIGN, 



AFFECTING 



HORTICULTURE & HORTICULTURAL SCIENCE. 



Judging by the number of appreciative letters received, the endeavour 

 commenced in volume xxvi. to enlarge the usefulness of the Society's 

 Journal, by giving an abstract of current Horticultural periodical 

 literature, has met with success. 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 can alone enable the 

 Editor to continue to cope with the work. 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. 



8. 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. 231, 232. 



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

 in question. 



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

 or " plate." 



