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is  at  present  planted  with  Boses,  Facbsias,  and  many  old>fashioned 
plants,  such  as  Clianthus  puniceus,  Lasiandra  macrantha,  Chorozema 
cordata,  Acacias,  Myrtles,  Scented  Pelargoniums  of  sorts,  the  old 
P.  tomentoBum  being  amongst  them.  The  stove  is  80  feet  long,  and  it 
is  intended  to  re-roof  this  house.  Mr.  Jeffrey  is  a  great  advocate  of  the 
planting-out  system,  and  in  front  of  this  stove  in  a  walled-in  bed  having 
bottom  heat  below  were  growing  Passiflora  edulis  bearing  almost  100 
fruits  the  size  of  a  hen’s  egg.  The  same  house  contains  Passidora 
lanrifolia  full  of  bloom  with  some  fruit  swelling  ;  it  promises  to  be 
equal  in  every  respect  to  its  neighbour.  Mr,  Jeffrey  considers  the  fruit 
quite  equal  in  flavour  to  edulis.  A  really  flue  plant  of  Aristolochia 
ROYAL  HORTICULTURAL  SOCIETY. 
Scientific  Committee,  July  13th. — Present:  Dr.  M.T.  Masters 
(in  the  chair);  Mr.  Veitch,  Dr.  Bonavia,  Rev.  W.  Wilks,  Prof.  A.  H. 
Church,  and  Rev.  G.  Henslow,  Hon.  Sec. 
Malformed  Fungi  in  Mushroom  Bed. — A  letter  was  received  from 
Mr.  Taylor,  Penbridu,  Mold,  criticising  the  reports  sent  to  the  last 
meeting  with  reference  to  the  loam,  as  he  had  splendid  results  last  year 
with  the  same  loam  cut  from  the  open  pasture.  As  the  specimens  have 
been  lost  in  the  transit  to  Kew  the  Committee  has  been  unable  to  receive 
the  report  of  an  expert  upon  the  fungi  themselves. 
Fig.  12.— CHRYSANTHEMUMS  IN  APRIL. 
elegans  bearing  hundreds  of  curious  and  beautiful  blooms  arrested 
attention,  as  did  Ipomsea  Horsefleldi  ahd  Stephanotis. 
An  exotic  fernery  contained  fine  plants  of  Adiantnm  farleyense  and 
Cheilanthes  elegans,  and  interspersed  were  a  number  of  Rex  Begonias. 
Amherstia  nobilis  is  represented  by  three  specimens  brought  from 
Trinidad,  and  recently  planted  here. 
Another  house  contained  Orchids,  and  then  came  two  houses  with 
greenhouse  plants,  in  which  were  double  Primulas,  which  are  grown  by 
the  hundred ;  and  here  I  observed  at  least  a  hundred  pots,  containing 
each  three  and  four  bulbs  as  large  as  a  Spanish  Onion  of  Amaryllis 
Johnsoni.  The  pots  were  mostly  7-inch  in  diameter,  and  the  sight  of 
the  plants  in  flower  must  be  very  fine.  Several  hundreds  of  bush  Chrys¬ 
anthemums  are  grown,  and  I  noticed  a  floe  lot  of  Lilium  Harris!  just 
flowering.  In  the  large  vinery  at  one  end  are  planted  two  groups  of 
Hedychiums  coronarium  and  Gardneriannm  remarkably  strong, 
promising  well  for  bloom.  In'one  of  the  stoves  were  about  half  a  dozen 
large  Hibiscus  in  sorts.  Mr.  Jeffrey  can^  use  these  for  dinner-table 
glasses  nine  months  out  of  the  twelve.  They  are  short-lived,  but 
brilliant.— F.  Street. 
Cucmiher  with  Adherent  Leaf. — A  specimen  was  received  from 
Mr.  S.  Horsley,  gardener  to  Rev.  W.  Wilks.  The  petiole  of  a  leaf  had 
become  fused  with  the  base  of  the  fruit,  the  result  being  a  distortion  in 
the  latter — a  not  uncommon  procedure. 
Cattleyas,  synanthic. — This  was  a  fusion  between  two  flowers,  the 
effect  being  to  arrest  some  parts  of  the  whorls,  so  that  each  flower 
became  dimerous.  There  were  two  lips. 
Poppy  with  Pistilloid  Stamens. — A  flower  of  Papaver  Rhasas  was 
exhibited  with  this  peculiarity.  It  is  rare  in  this  species,  but  not 
infrequently  in  some  others,  as  the  Icelandic. 
Chemical  Composition  of  Cattleya. — Two  papers  prepared  by  Mr. 
Smee  were  laid  before  the  Committee  by  Mr.  Veitch,  to  whom  they  had 
been  addressed,  as  Chairman  of  the  Orchid  Committee.  The  first 
contained  some  figures  connected  with  the  composition  of  the  atmo¬ 
sphere  ;  analyses  of  old  and  young  pseudo-bulbs  were  also  given,  and  of 
the  flower,  including  observations  »pon  the  colouring  matters  of  plants. 
Prof.  A.  Church,  having  given  careful  consideration  to  the  first  of  the 
I  two  papers,  reserving  the  second  for  a  future  meeting,  remarked  that 
1  Mr. < Smee  had  scarcely  paid  sufficient  attention  to  the  more  recent 
