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FLOEAL COMMITTEE. 



December 21, 1869. 



Messrs. E. G. Henderson and Sons brought a large collection 

 of variegated Ivies, to one of which, with purple-tinted bluntly 

 hastate leaves with overlapping lobes, a Eirst-class Certificate 

 was awarded. Messrs. Yeitch brought flowers of Hippeastrum 

 Leopoldi, a bold showy flower with claret-crimson greenish- 

 tipped segment, which also obtained a Eirst-class Certificate. 



EEUIT COMMITTEE. 



The competition for the prizes for Dessert Apples and Pears, 

 offered by the Rev. G. Kemp, was well maintained, — Mr. Gar- 

 land, gardener to Sir T. Dyke Acland, being first with the Winter 

 Nelis, Glou Morceau, and Bergamot Esperen amonst Pears, and 

 Golden Pippin, Nonpareil, and Eoss Nonpareil Apples ; Mr. 

 Sidney Eord, gardener to W. E. Hubbard, Esq., second with 

 Knight's Monarch, Duchesse d'Angouleme, and Josephine de 

 Malines Pears, and Eibston Pippin, Bed Pearmain and Blen- 

 heim Orange Apples. Lady Dorothy Neville sent a fine dish 

 of Tangerine Oranges from old trees at Dangstein, which were 

 much admired both as regards beauty and, flavour ; and some very 

 fine home-grown Oranges came from Danesbury Park (W. J. 

 Blake's, Esq.). 



SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE. 

 W. Wilson Saunders, Esq., F.R.S., in the Chair. 



The minutes of the last Meeting were read and approved. 



A leaf of Aerides with a peculiar form of spot, quite different 

 from the well-known forms of black spot which have so often en- 

 gaged the attention of the Committee, was laid on the table by 

 the Secretary. The spots are brownish, raised above the general 

 surface, and filled with loose cellular tissue. A box of Peas, from 

 Mr. Laxton, was also handed round, the produce of a single 

 crop, between Eingleader and the Common Maple. The different 

 forms were singularly numerous. Further information was pro- 

 mised by Mr. Laxton for the next Meeting. 



A paper on the " Fertilization of Grasses," by Mr. Spruce, 

 was then read, which will be published in the Journal. 

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