EXTRACTS OF PROCEEDINGS. 



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From the Royal Gardens, Kew, were sent some choice hardy 

 plants in flower, conspicuous being Shortia galacifolia. 



Messrs. W. Paul & Son sent three Roses, viz., Duchess of 

 Albany, White Lady, and Corinna. 



Prizes. 



Prizes were awarded in the following classes for Amateurs : — 

 Class 1. — Collection of Daffodils (Tazettas excluded) grown in 



the open, not more than three blooms of a sort. First Prize, 



Silver Challenge Cup, to C. W. Cowan, Esq., Valleyfield, Penny - 



cuick, Edinburgh. 



Class 2. — Nine varieties of Daffodils (distinct), five blooms 



of each. First Prize, Bronze Flora Medal and 15s., to C. W. 



Cowan, Esq. 



Class 3. — Six varieties of Daffodils (distinct), three blooms of 

 each. First Prize, Bronze Banksian Medal and 10s., to Rev. 

 W. Wilks, Shirley Vicarage, Croydon. 



Class 6. Open. — Collection of Daffodils, Polyanthus ex- 

 cluded. First Prize, withheld. Second Prize, Small Silver 

 Medal (presented by Messrs. Barr & Son), to Miss B. F. Doyne, 

 Seafield House, Gorey, Ireland. 



The Rev. W. Wilks, Shirley Vicarage, Surrey, exhibited two 

 seedling Daffodils, both of the Ajax or Trumpet section : Hilda, 

 a white, of good form and habit, in the way of Dr. Hogg, but of 

 a decidedly purer colour ; and Cressida, a chance seedling from 

 Troilus, probably insect or wind fertilized with pollen from one 

 of the Spurius type. It is a very stout, robust, self-yellow Ajax, 

 with an enormously wide open trumpet very deeply frilled round 

 the mouth (fig. 51). 



ORCHID COMMITTEE. 



Dr. Maxwell T. Mastees, F.R.S., in the Chair, and eleven 

 members present. 



Awards Recommended :— 



Gold Flora Medal. 



To Baron Schroder, The Dell, Egham (gardener, Mr. H. 

 Ballantine), for a magnificent group of rare Orchids, among 

 which were Cattleya Digbyana-Mossise x , with two flowers ; 

 Odontoglossum crispum Veitchianum, 0. c. Stevensi, 0. c. 

 Wolstenholmia3, and other beautiful spotted Odontoglossums ; 



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