CClxxviii PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



4000 parcels has provided a large and representative collection. | 

 When they are in bloom a Joint Committee of Dutch and English 

 Tulip specialists will be invited to meet at Wisley to determine the 

 correct nomenclature. A synonymic list will then be prepared and 

 issued in the Journal of the Society. It is important that all bulbs 

 sent should bear the name under which they are known to, or sent 

 out by, the sender, and also an indication of their type — as Early, 

 Late, Darwin, Parrot, Bizarre, Bybloemen, Rose, &c. The trial will 

 be continued in 1914-15, and growers are asked to send in August 

 next bulbs of those varieties not sent last autumn owing to the lateness 

 of the date when arrangements for the trial were made and advertised. 



If sent by post : The Superintendent, R.H.S. Gardens, Wisley, 

 Ripley, Surrey. 



If by rail : The Superintendent, R.H.S. Gardens, Wisley, Horsley 

 Station, L. & S.W.R., with advice by post to the Superintendent. 



Trial of Horticultural Sundries. 

 The Council will continue their Trial of Sundries in 1914, and 

 Sundriesmen are again invited to send their specialities (not more 

 than three articles in any one year). Full particulars, with Entry 

 Form, can be obtained from the Secretary, R.H.S., Vincent Square, 

 S.W., upon receipt of a stamped addressed envelope. 



24. SEEDLING DAHLIAS. 



The Society's trial of Dahlias, from a garden decorative point 

 of view, carried out in the gardens of Reginald Cory, Esq., at 

 Duffryn, has proved a genuine success, and in consideration of this, 

 and desiring to encourage raisers still further to devote particular 

 attention to producing varieties well adapted to garden decoration, 

 Mr. Cory felt the desirability of holding a further trial next year, and, 

 after putting his views before the Council of the Society and the 

 National Dahlia Society, and being assured of their willingness to 

 co-operate as they did last year, it has been decided to hold a trial in 

 19 14 of seedlings not in commerce and any varieties offered for the 

 first time in 1914. 



These will be grown, judged, and reported on in exactly the 

 same way, and as far as possible by the same individuals, as in 1913. 

 Three plants of each variety should be sent, carriage paid, c/o Reginald 

 Cory, Esq., Duffryn, Cardiff, if sent by post ; or labelled per G.W.R. 

 to Ely station, near Cardiff, if sent by rail. For various considerations 

 it has been decided that only rooted cuttings must be sent, and those 

 who intend participating in the trials are particularly requested to 

 send them as early as possible in order that they may be grown on to 

 the best advantage before planting out. Mr. Cory kindly offers the 

 Council a £5 5s. Cup to be awarded to the most meritorious plant, 

 and the Council will give any other awards they think fit. 



