BOTANISTS CONFER.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 244, 12 September 1935, Page 8

BOTANISTS CONFER.

LIAISON WITH LONDON. The Imperial Botanical Conference in London carried a resolution commending to the Australian Government the importance of maintaining close botanical liaison with the Itoyal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and urging it favourably to consider the appointment of one of the younger Australian systematic botanists to work at Kew for at least two years, in making a critical examination of historic Australian type specimens at Kew and the British Museum. Mr Carne Martin showed that there was much less “breakdown” when apples were carried at a temperature of <lB or 40 degrees, compared with the customary 32 or 34 degrees. Mr N. E. Holmes, of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, read a paper on an investigation into navel oranges in Victoria, the conclusion of which was that the only really reliable measure of maturity was the respiratory activity of the orange. Tests showed that oranges matured approximately at the same time in two different districts in Victoria, whereas the trade had previously acted on the assumption that there was three months’ difference between the time of maturity in the two districts.