FLORAL COMMITTEE, MAY 26. 



CXXV 



Award of Merit. 



To Begonia ' Empress Marie ' (votes, unanimous), from Messrs. 

 Blackmore and Langdon, Bath. A tuberous-rooted variety bearing very 

 large double pure white flowers, with broad, round, smooth, very regular 

 petals. 



To Codiaeum (Croton) 1 Fred Sander ' (votes, unanimous), from 

 Messrs. Sander, St. Albans. Leaves broad, three-lobed, halberd-shaped ; 

 yellow at the base, edged and tipped with green in the upper half ; leaf- 

 stalks and stems pale yellow. 



To Dimorphotheca aurantiaca (votes, unanimous), from Messrs. Barr, 

 Covent Garden. A half-hardy annual from South Africa. Flowers 

 about 3 inches in diameter, rich orange with a narrow deep-purple band 

 surrounding the blackish-purple disc. Leaves fleshy, oblong, sinuate- 

 toothed. This species was grown in the open at Wisley in 1907 and 

 proved exceptionally showy and floriferous. Height 1 foot. (Fig. 43.) 



To Paeonia decora alba (votes, unanimous), from Messrs. Wallace, 

 Colchester. Flowers 4-5 inches in diameter, cup-shaped ; petals 8, 

 delicate blush-white becoming white. Stigmas red, surrounded by a mass 

 of bright yellow stamens. Foliage glaucous green. Height 2-3 feet. 



To Rhododendron occidentale (= Azalea occiden talis) var. graciosa 

 (votes, 9 for, 1 against), from Messrs. Cuthbert, Southgate. Flowers 

 about 2^ inches in diameter, borne freely in rather loose trusses of twenty 

 or more ; at first shaded with pale yellow, becoming white, and finally 

 suffusing with pink especially at the edges and tips ; blotched above the 

 nectary with orange-yellow ; crenate-waved at the margin, scented, appear- 

 ing with the leaves. Height 2-6 feet. 



To Rose 'Elaine' (votes, unanimous), from Messrs. W. Paul, 

 Waltham Cross. An exhibition hybrid tea rose. Flowers white, shaded 

 in the bud with flesh-colour, of great substance and fine form ; the bud 

 long-pointed and the outer petals recurved. 



To Rose ' Tausendschon ' (votes, unanimous), from Messrs. Hobbies, 

 Dereham, and W. Paul, Waltham Cross. A large-flowered rambler with 

 the foliage and strong shoots of ' Crimson Rambler,' and of bolder habit 

 than Dorothy Perkins and other Wichuraiana hybrids. Flowers 2-3 

 inches across, thinly double, rich pink to pale pink, scarcely scented, 

 borne freely in large trusses at the ends of the almost thornless shoots, 

 (Fig. 44.) 



To Rose ' White Dorothy ' (votes, unanimous), from Messrs. Ben 

 Cant, Colchester. A sport from ' Dorothy Perkins ' with the habit, form 

 and freedom of that rambler but with white flowers, tinted in the bud 

 with flesh-colour. 



To Tulip * Duchess of Westminster ' (votes, 6 for, 3 against), from 

 Messrs. A. Dickson, Belfast. A breeder tulip of the best Darwin size and 

 form, outside rose-red in colour, edged, within almost scarlet ; the base 

 yellow touched with olive ; stalks strong. 



Other Exhibits. 



Messrs. Artindale, Sheffield : alpines, &c. 



E. Ascherson, Esq., Pett Place, Charing : Calceolarias, &c, 



Messrs. Backhouse, York : alpines. 



VOL. xxxiv. * 



