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LONDON Royal Horticultural Society.—Gcneral Meeting, Aug. 20.—W. A. Lindsay, Secretary, in the chair.—The Rev. M. J. Berkeley said Kerson's seedling gooseberry, a fine variety which gained a first-class certificate at the last meeting, turned out to be not a garden seedling but one originally taken from a common hedge in the neidhbourhood of Peterborough. Tnis was not a solitary instance of a fine varity of fruit being found in such places—the Bess Pool apple having been dicovered in a plantation at Nottingham. Mr. Berkeley then alluded to a disease of rise crocus very destructive to the gladiolus, and which also attacked the saffron crocus and the narcissus; it was first described by Montague under the name of Tacon. He concluded by remarking that vegetables treated with sewage were apt to be much deteriorated in flavour.
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Societies and Academies . Nature 8, 480 (1873). https://doi.org/10.1038/008480b0
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