Cxlii PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



FLORAL COMMITTEE. 

 Dr. Denny in the Chair. 



Messrs. Kelway and Sons' (of Langport) collection of Gladioluses 

 formed the chief feature of the meeting. About eighty spikes were 

 staged, comprising a very large number of excellent varieties. A 

 great diversity of colours were shown from pure white to the richest 

 scarlet. The flowers were of great size and closely placed in the 

 spikes. Some of the best varieties were the following : — Anthony 

 Waterer, crimson, white streak ; Dr. "Woodman, pale salmon, purple 

 tinge in lower petal ; Antisthenes, fine scarlet ; Opiter, crimson 

 streaked margin, light centre ; Ball of Eire, glowing scarlet ; Queen 

 Mary, white, fine, purple streak in lower petal; Calliophon, fine 

 rosy pink streaks ; and Mr. Derry, pale purple. They also exhibited 

 seedling Dahlias and Asters. The Asters were represented by a 

 number of large blooms, white, crimson, and purple being especially 

 fine. A gilt Elora medal was awarded for the Gladiolus. 



Messrs. Yeitch and Son, Chelsea, sent a collection of Orchids and 

 rare plants. The most noticeable were Aristolochia ringens, a spe- 

 cies with neat, small, reniform leaves, and medium-sized flowers 

 thickly veined and marked with dark maroon. Sigmatostalix 

 radicans was a pretty dwarf Orchid with narrow grass-like leaves, 

 and racemes of small flowers with pale green sepals and petals and 

 white labellum, Oncidium ornithorhynchum album had panicles of 

 white flowers with comparatively large yellow crests on the labellum. 

 Dendrobium bigibbum superbum had neat flowers, pale purple, pur- 

 plish crimson labellum. Zygopetalum Wendlandi, a species from 

 Costa Rica, had a single flower with pale green sepals and petals, 

 and a purplish labellum. Messrs. Yeitch also sent about thirty im- 

 mense trusses of Hydrangea paniculata grandiflora, which were 

 especially remarkable for the large number of medium-sized white 

 flowers crowded in the panicles. Some of the latter were about 10 

 inches in height and the same in diameter. Mr. B. S. "Williams, 

 Cpper Holloway, sent a collection of new plants. Among these 

 were a specimen of Mormodes pardina, with yellow flowers, the in- 

 curved petals and sepals being spotted with claret. The flowers are 



