NARCISSUS AND TULIP COMMITTEE, MARCH 10 & 24 



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NARCISSUS AND TULIP COMMITTEE. 



March 10, 1903. 

 Mr. H. B. May in the Chair, and eleven members present. 



The question of classification was brought forward by Mr. J. Pope and 

 discussed at some length, the result being an unanimous agreement that 

 in future all Narcissi receiving Certificates or Awards of Merit should be 

 classified (so far as possible) directly they obtain official recognition. 

 This was considered highly desirable in the interests of Daffodil exhibitors 

 and the Fellows of the Society generally. 



Considering the large amount of work coming before the Committee 

 each year at the two April meetings, the Chairman was requested to lay 

 before the Council a recommendation that at the April meetings of 1904 

 the Committee should meet at 11.30 a.m. instead of at 12 o'clock. 



Award Recommended:— 



Silver Flora Medal 



To Messrs. Cutbush, Highgate, N., for a large group of Narcissi, in 

 pots. In this collection varieties of the ' Ajax ' and incomparabilis sections 

 were most in evidence. 



Other Exhibits. 



Early flowering Dutch Tulips, grown in pots, were exhibited by Messrs. 

 Williams, Upper Holloway. 



Daffodils and Tulips grown in small jars, without drainage, and in a 

 preparation of crushed shell and peat-moss, were shown by Mr. Sydenham, 

 Tenby Street, Birmingham. 



Mr. W. B. Hartland, Patrick Street, Cork, sent flowers of Narcissus 

 maximus, produced by bulbs collected in 1886, and stated that the wild 

 bulbs improved under cultivation, whereas the Dutch stocks of this 

 Daffodil generally died out after two or three years' culture. The 

 Committee recognised these flowere as representing the Pyrenean form of 

 maximus. From the same exhibitors came blooms of a seedling named 

 Nelsoni lutea, said to have " originated between trumpet maximus and a 

 Leedsii " : these had suffered considerably during the long journey. 



Narcissus and Tulip Committee, March 24, 1903. 

 Mr. H. B. May in the Chair, and sixteen members present. 



A letter from Mr. P. R. Barr was read in which he asked the Com- 

 mittee to fix a day and hour for the discussion of a scheme of Daffodil 

 Classification. He urged that the time had arrived when it was necessary 

 for purposes of description and identification, and also for the guidance of 



