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Moschatus : 



Minnie Warren. 



Bernardi : 

 H. P. Buxton. 



Incomparabilis : 

 Autocrat. 

 C. J. Backhouse. 

 Gloria Mundi. 

 Lul worth. 

 Mary Anderson. 

 Princess Mary. 

 Queen Bess. 

 Sir Watkin. 



Tridymus : 

 A. Bawson. 



Leedsii : 

 Acis. 

 Beatrice. 



Duchess of Westminster. 

 Gem. 



Madge Matthew. 

 Minnie Hume. 



Backhousei : 

 William Wilks. 



Barrii : 



Conspicuus. 

 Maurice Vilmorin. 



The following varieties registered this season will be con- 

 firmed next year unless objected to: 



Report on the Trial of White Daffodils at Kew, 

 1887-1890. 



In answer to the request that as many forms of white Ajax 

 Daffodils as were in cultivation should be sent to the Royal 

 Gardens at Kew for the purpose of comparison with each other, 

 after having been planted in the same soil and grown under 

 similar conditions for more than one season, bulbs were received 

 from different parts of England, from Scotland, Ireland, the 

 Channel Islands, and from Holland. In the first year sixty-seven 

 lots were planted, one or more bulbs in each, and labelled with 

 distinctive numbers (the names of the senders and of the reputed 

 varieties being withheld from notice during the trial), and in 

 1888 fourteen more lots were added. The observations of each 

 member of the Sub-Committee who examined the flowers were 

 recorded, and a comparison between these indicates the following 

 conclusions : 



1. That the " Moschatus" of the Dutch growers is the variety 

 properly known as " Albicans." 



2. That the variety which some call "Leda" is that which 



Captain Nelson. 

 Duchess of Teck. 

 Golden Vase. 



Grandee (Bicolor Grandis). 

 Lena. 



Madame Plemp. 

 Miss White. 



Mrs. Walter Ware. 

 Nelson's Orange (Nelsoni 



Aurantius). 



P. E. Barr. 

 Queen Sophia. 

 Samson. 

 Sunset. 



