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To Myosotis Bexley Gem (votes, 14 for, 1 against), from W. 

 Marshall, Esq., Auchenraith, Bexley. Plant of very dwarf habit, 

 with large bright blue flowers. 



To Sweet Briar Lady Penzance (votes, 11 for, 1 against), 

 from Lord Penzance, E ashing Park, Godalming. A single 

 variety, with metallic rosy-red flowers, with a yellow base. It 

 was stated to be a " graft or bud on the Manetti of a seedling from 

 the common Sweet Briar, crossed with the pollen of Austrian 

 Copper Briar in 1886. The seedling came up in the spring of 

 1887, and flowered for the first time in 1889, but had only one 

 flower. It is now a vigorous plant four feet high, the wood a 

 sort of purple colour like that of the pollen-parent " (fig. 54). 



Other Exhibits. 



E. M. Nelson, Esq., Hanger Hill House, Ealing (gardener, 

 Mr. E. Chadwick), sent plants in flower of Arthropodium 

 cirratum. 



Mr. Coppin, Battersea Park, sent a plant of Puya Whytei, 

 with a flower stem 7 feet high, bearing at its summit large 

 bright-metallic green flowers. 



W. E. Gumbleton, Esq., Belgrove, Queenstown, Ireland, sent 

 some well-executed paintings of Daffodils, Snowdrops, and 

 Chionodoxas. 



Stafford F. Still, Esq., sent two baskets of Auriculas, well 

 flowered. 



James Bateman, Esq., Home House, Worthing, sent a flower- 

 stem of ChamaBrops Fortunei. 



Messrs. W. Paul & Son, Waltham Cross, sent a plant in 

 flower of Spiraea multiflora arguta. 



NARCISSUS COMMITTEE. 



The Narcissus Committee held, as usual, four meetings this 

 season, when the majority of the flowers shown were fine forms 

 selected from bulbs collected wild and seedlings raised in this 

 country. Of the latter those due to the Eev. G. H. Engleheart 

 were of great interest, a careful record having been kept of the 

 parentage, and a distinct advance in colour and form being notice- 

 able in many cases. Moreover, by his experiments the origin of 

 many of the varieties now cultivated in gardens is shown clearly. 

 Only one variety was registered this year, viz., " Flora Wilson." 



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