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THE GARDENERS 7 CHRONICLE. 



[June 15, 1912. 



SOCIETIE 



ROYAL HORTICULTURAL. 

 Scientific Committee, 



June 4. — Present: Mr. E. A. Bowles, M.A. 

 (in the Chair) ; Prof. Boulger, Sir Ever aid 

 im Thurn, Messrs. Wilson, Odell, Pearson, 

 Cuthbertson, Shea, Gordon, Ledger, Bennett-Poe, 

 Sutton, Worsley, Elwes, and Chittenden (hon. 

 sec), with Mr. Alexander, visitor. 



Odontioda X 



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Carmen. 



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Mr. de Barri 



-Crawshay sent this hybrid between Cochlioda 

 Noezliana and Odontoglossum nebulosum show- 

 ing characteristics of both parents. Hybrids 



with the latter plant as one of the parents are 

 scarce, and a Certificate of Appreciation was 



unanimously recommended to Mr. Crawshay. 



Afzelia cuanzensis. — Mr. E. M. Holmes 

 showed a pod and seeds of this African tree, the 

 seeds of which are half-black, half-scarlet. 



Botanical Certificates. — Professor I. Bayley 

 Balfour exhibited the following new or uncom- 

 mon plants : — Oxytropis yunnanensis, Franchet, 



having waved leaves. Two plants of the same 

 variety with perfectly plain leaves, like the leaves 

 of the old type, had produced perfectly waved 

 flowers with open keels. (2) In the white waved 

 variety (Etta Dyke), in the waved cream variety 

 (Dobbie's Cream), and in the pink-and-white 

 bicolour (Mrs. Cuthbertson) he had found a deep 

 purple-flowered plant — one in a thousand, per- 

 haps — giving a colour approaching the colour of 

 the wild Sweet Pea, but retaining the waved 

 formation. 



Sweet Pea with leafy tendrils. — Mr. Cuth- 

 bertson also showed some Sweet Pea leaves with 

 some of the tendrils becoming leafy, the result 

 of high cultivation. 



LINNEAN. 



May 24. — The treasurer laid his annual state- 

 ment of accounts before the meeting, and ex- 

 plained the various items of receipts and expendi- 

 ture, and the same was received and adopted 

 upon the motion of the President. 



The general secretary laid his annual report 



before the meeting, summarised thus : — Since the 



George Ridewood, Henry N. Ridley, F.R.S., Miss 

 Edith R. Saunders, Dr. Dukinfield H. Scott 

 F.R.S., Dr. Otto Stapf, F.R.S., Miss Ethel n! 

 Thomas, B.Sc, Dr. A. Smith Woodward, F.R.S. 



The ballot for the officers having been closed, 

 the President appointed the same scrutineers, 

 who, having cast up the votes, reported to the 

 President, who declared the result as follows : — 



President, Prof. E. B. Poulton, F.R.S. ; trea- 

 surer, Horace W. Monckton, F.G.S. ; secretaries, 

 Dr. B. Daydon Jackson, Dr. Otto Stapf, F.R.S., 

 and Prof. G. C. Bourne, F.R.S. 



Dr. D. H. Scott, the retiring President, then 

 delivered his address, devoting the greater part 

 of it to a review of the paleeobotanical work of 

 the late Sir Joseph Hooker. 



SCOTTISH HORTICULTURAL. 



June 4. — The monthly meeting of the above 

 association w r as held on this date. Mr. Massie, 

 the president, was in the Chair, and there was 

 an attendance of 75 members. 



The evening was devoted to papers by the junior 

 members, for which book prizes were offered 





Fig. 191. — miltonia vexillaria " snowflake," exhibited by sir george holford, k.c.v.o. 



(Received R.H.S. First-class Certificate on the 4th inst.) 



(bearing deep-blue flowers), Saxifraga majuscula 

 (very closely allied to S. Brunoniana, but much 

 larger in all its parts), S. diversifolia var. foliata 

 with marked veining of the ovate leaves, Primula 

 X " Edina " (which received a Botanical Cer- 

 tificate at the last meeting), Senecio Lyallii, 

 Hook f. (with yellow flowers about 1£ inch 

 across, from New Zealand) ; Aster likiangensis, 

 Franchet (with large, deep-blue flowers about 

 2 inches in diameter on stalks 3 inches long, from 

 Yunnan, a very beautiful little plant) ; Primula 

 X " Inverleith " (P. Bulleyana X P. pulveru- 

 lenta), a plant much in the way of P. X "Edina," 

 but a shade deeper in colour and more robust in 

 habit. Botanical Certificates were unanimously 

 recommended for the last three plants. 



Variation in Sweet Peas. — Mr. Cuthbertson 

 brought examples of Sweet Peas, which he 

 thought showed reversion to original forms. (1) 

 A rich ruby-coloured unnamed variety produced 

 waved flowers on normal plants, i.e., plants 



last anniversary 10 Fellows, 2 Associates, and 2 

 foreign members have died or their deaths been 

 ascertained ; 14 Fellows have withdrawn and 2 

 have been removed from the list by order of the 

 Council. On the other hand, 42 Fellows have 

 been elected (of whom 36 have qualified up to 

 now), 3 Associates, and 1 foreign member. 



The ballot for the Council having been closed, 

 the President nominated the Rev. T. R. R. Steb- 

 bing, Dr. A. P. Young, and Mr. A. W. Oke 

 scrutineers, who, having cast up the votes, re- 

 ported to the President, who declared the result 

 as follows : — 



Tempest Anderson, D.Sc, Prof. G. C. Bourne, 

 F.R.S., Prof. Arthur Dendy, D.Sc, F.R.S.. Prof. 

 J. Stanley Gardiner, F.R.S., Prof. Percy Groom, 

 D.Sc, Henry Groves, Esq., Prof. W. A. Herd- 

 man, F.R.S., Arthur W. Hill. M.A., Dr. B. Day- 

 don Jackson, Prof. F. Keeble, D.Sc, Horace W. 

 Monckton, F.G.S., Prof. Francis W. Oliver, 

 F.R.S., Prof. E. B. Poulton, F.R.S., Dr. Walter 



by the president. Fourteen papers, the subjects 

 being of the competitors' own selection, were 

 sent in, and the judges — Messrs. Whytock, Fife 

 and Cairns — awarded the prizes as follow : — 1st 

 (The Vegetable Growers 9 Guide), to Mr. A. 

 Brotherston, Shiplake Court Gardens, Henley- 

 on-Thames, for a paper on " The Early Treat- 

 ment of the Perpetual-flowering Carnation ; 

 2nd {The English Flower Garden), to Mr. 

 Wm. Reach, Cullen House Gardens, for a 

 paper on Primula sinensis ; 3rd (Mendelism, by 

 Punnett), to Mr. Charles Cook, Dalkeith Gar- 

 dens, for a paper on Violets in winter. A paper 

 by Mr. Wm. Smith, Whittinchame Gardens, on 

 "Malmaison" Carnations was highly commended, 

 and papers on " The Cultivation of Schizanthus 

 Wisetonensis " and " The Culture of Begonia 

 Gloire de Lorraine," by Messrs. D. Armstrong, 

 Riccarton Gardens, and Thos. Cload, Keir Oar- 

 dens, respectively, were commended. , , 



The exhibits were :— A new hybrid Primula 



