June  29,  1899. 
JOUBXAL  OF  HORTICULTURE  AND  COTTaGE  GAEUENER. 
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THE  ROYAL  HORTICULTURAL 
SOCIETY. 
Rarely,  R  ever,  has  this,  the  chief  horti¬ 
cultural  society  of  the  kingduiu,  been  more 
active  than  at  the  present  time,  and  large  accessions 
of  new  Fellows  are  gratifying  incidents  of  every 
meeting.  The  work  it  does  is  also  strictly  in 
accordance  with  its  charter  —  namely,  “  the 
improvement  of  horticulture  in  all  its  branches, 
ornamental  as  well  as  useful.”  Neitlier  decorated 
donkeys  nor  other  floral  frivolities  have  intruded 
on  its  domain.  Interest  appears  to  increase  in  the 
various  trials  at  Chiswick,  and  the  meetings  in 
London  hid  fair  to  outgrow  existing  conveniences. 
So  apparent  is  this  that  it  is  questionable  if  the 
provision  of  an  appropriate  centre  for  exhibits  and 
visitors  is  not  even  more  urgent  than  a  “  new 
Chiswick.”  The  old  garden  is  not  done  yet,  and 
can  he  made  of  great  use  to  the  Society  for  still 
more  years,  while  in  the  Westminster  Drill  Hall 
there  will  soon  he  “  no  room  to  live.” 
We  are  reminded  of  the  chief  function  of  the 
season  by  the  arrival  of  a  pro.spectus  setting  forth 
the  plan  and  proceedings  of  the  International 
Conference  on  Hybridisation  and  attendant  exhibi¬ 
tion.  This  conference  was  a  happy  idea,  and  is 
evidently  to  he  carried  out  on  a  cornprehensive 
scale.  The  subject,  besides  being  fascinating,  is  of 
the  greatest  importance,  and  in  potentialities 
illimitable.  The  proposition  lias  “  caught  on  ” 
amongst  leading  hybridists  and  botanists  in  varicais 
countries,  nearly  forty,  we  believe,  being  expected 
from  abroad. 
Last  week  we  published  a  list  of  Yeitch  Memoaial 
medals  for  the  best  new  cross-bred  or  hybrid  fruits, 
flowers,  and  vegetables,  the  result  of  iiitentioiial 
(not  accidental)  cross  fertilisation.  It  may  be 
stated  for  the  information  of  the  inexperienced  in 
such  matters  that  when  pollen  is  transferred  from 
one  variety  of  flower  to  another  of  the  same  species 
the  resulting  seedlings  are  cross-breds,  but  if  the 
transfer  of  pollen  is  between  two  distinct  species  of  a 
genus  the  influenced  seedlings  are  hybrids;  if 
between  species  of.  different  genera  they  are 
No.  2048.— VoL.  C.,  Old  series. 
‘No.  992.— YOL.  XXXV III.,  Third  Series, 
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