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EOTAL HORTICULTrRAL SOCIETY. 
The Chairman laid oa the table specimens of Chlorops lineata^ 
which had to a considerable extent attacked ears of barley. An 
allied species, it was stated, attacks the iiiternodes of wheat- 
stalks. 
It was thought probable that the failure of oats, which has on 
a former occasion been brought before the Committee, might be 
due to a similar cause. 
The Chairman then asked whether sports were ever repro- 
duced. The feeling of the Committee was, that the same cause 
which gave rise to a sport in the first instance might do so in a 
second. It was stated that the same sport had more than once 
been produced for the Stella Pelargonium. 
The Meeting then adjourned. 
FLOEAL COMMITTEE. 
December 7, 1870. 
Eirst-class Certificates were awarded : — to a very fine variety of 
Mormodes Cartoni, from Mr. Grreen, gardener to W. W. Saunders, 
Esq. ; to Selaginella Martensii albo-Uneata, from Messrs. Perkins ; 
to a seedling Cyclamen persicum, of a deep purplish rose, from 
Mr. Groddard, gardener to H. Little, Esq. ; to a seedling tree 
Carnation, White Nun, from Mr. W. Lee ; also a Second-class 
Certificate to a variety named Maiden's Blush. 
Special Certificates were given : — to Mr. P. S. "Williams for a 
group of Orchids and Solanum hyhridum compactum ; to Dr. 
Ainsworth for a very fine spike of Oncidium BarJceri=-0. ti- 
grinum, La Llave ; to Messrs. Brooke for Dendrobium higihhum ; 
to Mr. Eobins, gardener to Sir E. C. Kerrison, for Capsicum 
Yellow Grem ; to Messrs. Henderson for a collection of dwarf 
hardy rock-plants, comprising 113 kinds of Saxifrage, 70 of Sem- 
pervivum, and 30 of Sedum, and for tree Carnations ; to Messrs. 
Standish for Hollies, Bhaphiolepis ovata, &c. ; to Mr. Clarke for 
a collection of Cyclamens ; to Messrs. Brown for Primulas and 
Cinerarias; and to Mr. Wiggins, gardener to W. Beck, Esq., 
for semidouble and fern-leaved Primulas. Mr. Douglas, gardener 
to F. Whitbourn, Esq., was first for Chinese and Japanese 
Chrysanthemums ; Mr. H. Touell sent a new garden-peg ; and 
Mr. Looker a sample of his acme garden-frame, in which the 
means of ventilation are said to be better than in the usual 
frames. 
