EXTRACTS OF PROCEEDINGS. 



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FLORAL COMMITTEE. 



W. Marshall, Esq., in the Chair, and twenty- two members 



present. 



Awards Recommended:— 



Silver Gilt Flora Medal. 

 To Messrs. H. Cannell & Sons, Swanley, for a very fine 

 group of Primulas, plants well flowered, of excellent habit, and 

 in beautiful variety. 



Silver Banksian Medal. 

 To Messrs. H. Low & Co., Clapton, for a large and beautiful 

 group of Cyclamen in flower, interspersed with Chorizema Lowii, 

 and other flowering and foliage plants. 



First Class Certificate. 

 To Iris Danfordise (votes, 1G for), from Mr. T. S. Ware, 

 Hale Farm Nursery, Tottenham. This is an Armenian species, 

 which has a flowering stem only three or four inches high. 

 The leaves, which are about twice as tall, and are produced after 

 the flowers, are narrowly linear and quadrangular, and suddenly 

 contracted into an oblique cusp at the top. The flowers are 

 about an inch and a half in diameter, having the outer segments 

 orange yellow with brown or greenish spots, the petaloid stigmas 

 being lemon yellow. It is figured in the Botanical Magazine, 

 t. 7140. 



To Hamamelis Zuccariniana (votes, 10 for, 8 against), from 

 Messrs. James Veitch & Sons, Chelsea. A pale-yellow flowered 

 species of Witch-Hazel sent with H. arborea for comparison. 

 The plants were grown in the open ground. 



Award of Merit. 

 To Primula Kentish Purple (votes, 14 for), from Messrs. 

 H. Cannell & Sons, Swanley. A compact growing plant with 

 deep purple flowers. 



To Primula Kentish Fire (votes, 15 for), from Messrs. H. 

 Cannell & Sons. Very bright red flowers of good form and 

 substance. 



To Chorizema Lowii (votes, unanimous), from Messrs. H. 

 Low & Co. The "standard" and " wings" of the flower are 

 brilliant scarlet, and the keel rose-purple (fig 46). 



