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 literature, 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. 
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 giving references to papers, as the observance of an identical 
order renders subsequent reference to the original easy. The order 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. 367, 368. 
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." 
