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Title: Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society of London
Year: 1866 (1860s)
Authors: Royal Horticultural Society (Great Britain) Royal Horticultural Society (Great Britain). Extracts from the proceedings
Subjects: Gardening Botany Horticulture Fruit-culture
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ter,both these elements are known, and the one now exhibited (fi g. b)is fixed on a metal frame, so that it cannot be injured by water inthe greenhouse. I consider that instruments of this class, for thispurpose, should be good and inexpensive. The pair of thermometers,as shown, are very nearly without errors at every part of theirscales, and could be used for outdoor determinations of temperatureand humidity of the air if necessary. Mr. Ackland (Home andThornewaite, 123, Newgate Street) has agreed to furnish theseinstruments thus mounted at 15s. the pair, upon the agreement thathe will send them to me for examination before mounting, and sellthose only to horticulturists which are furnished with my certifi-cate of their accuracy, and that I am permitted to reject all instru-ments which may have an error as large as three-tenths of a MR. J. G. BAKER ON DRAC2ENA AND CORDYLTNE. 27 degree at any part of their scales. These instruments have beenapproved by the Eoyal Horticultural Society.
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A BA, Ground Thermometer—the stem of the instrument should he provided-with a circular plate to rest on the soil as stated in the text; b, Wet andDry Bulb Thermometer. VII. On Dracaena and Cordyline. By J. G. Baker, F.L.S., Assistant Curator of the Kew Herbarium. (Eead June 26, 1872.) There are two genera of arborescent Liliacese which since thebeginning of the century have been distinguished by botanists byuniversal consent, and which are well-marked from one anotherboth by structural differences and by habit, which seem lately, sofar as nomenclature goes, to have drifted into a state of fusion inour collections and trade catalogues in a way that certainly would 28 ROYAL HORTICULTURAL. SOCIETY. be protested against if Lilies were either Ferns or Orchids. Thetwo genera to which I refer are Draccena and Cordyline, somemembers of which everyone knows, and everyone who has a con-servatory cultivates. The Dragon Tree of the Canaries is a plantabout which everyone has read, and the greatjournalofroyalho4187roya

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