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PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 
April 2 , 1878 . 
ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING. 
Sir Charles W. Strickland, Bart., in the Chair. 
The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 
Elections. —W. Ince Anderton, Gough Arbuthnot, Re?. W. 
Covington, M.A., J. Croucher, E. T. Davis, Mrs. G. Eenwick, Mrs. 
Eraser, G. H. Gordon, W. H. Gordon, G-. M. Hicks, Mrs. Howse, 
D. Kemp, Mrs. E. Makins, Miss M. E. Makins, Sir T. Mosley, 
Bart., Miss M. C. J. Munro, E. Parry, Mrs. Parry, Mrs. Travers, 
the Hon. J. "Welsh. 
One Guinea Member Admitted. —Mrs. Desvasux. 
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE. 
Sir Joseph D. Hooker, C.B., President R.S., in the Chair. 
Zanzibar Coffee Borer. —The Chairman showed specimens of 
branches of Coffee shrub from Zanzibar, the whole of the pith of 
which was bored vertically by the lava of some large beetle, pro¬ 
bably one of the Buprestidae (according to Mr. McLachlan). The 
bark and wood were also perforated in a very peculiar manner with 
funnel-like holes, the broad end of the aperture being inside. He 
was of opinion that the boring into the wood had nothing to do 
with the boring inside. 
Slug-Eating Bioncea. —Erom Mr. Green, gardener to Sir George 
MacLeay, came a specimen of Dionaea in bad condition. It was 
supposed that the plant’s ill-health might have arisen from too free 
indulgence in slugs. 
Cat alp a Wood. —Dr. Masters showed from Professor Sargent, of 
Cambridge, H.S., a piece of Catalpa wood cut from the lower end 
of a post after it had stood in the ground for seventy-five years. 
The wood was still firm and hard, much more so than is the case 
with Catalpa grown in this country. 
Gemmiferous Cardamime .— Erom Mr. Wilson Saunders came a 
drawing and note relating to the production of buds on the leaves 
of Cardamime pratensis (which he has been cultivating, as it showed 
in the wild state a tendency to produce double flowers) and 
which during the winter had made some young plants from the 
