lx PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



To Messrs. R. Wallace, Colchester, for hardy flowers. 

 To Messrs. Ware, Feltham, for Paeonies. 



Bronze Flora Medal. 

 To Messrs. Clark, Dover, for herbaceous flowers. 

 To Messrs. Hornan, Noordwijk, Holland, for Spanish Iris. 

 To Mr. Upton, Guildford, for hardy plants. 



Award of Merit. 



To Iris ' King of the White ' (votes, unanimous), from Messrs. Homan, 

 Noordwijk, Holland. An I. hispanica with large pure white flowers and 

 a bright yellow blotch on the falls. 



To Iris ' L'Unique ' (votes, unanimous), from Messrs. Homan, 

 Holland. Another I. hispanica with large upright blue standards and 

 blue-and-white falls. A very fine variety. 



To Iris 1 Mr. Walter T. Ware ' (votes, unanimous), from Messrs. 

 Homan, Holland. A charming J. hispanica, having large pale-yellow 

 flowers with a rich orange blotch on the falls. 



To Coleus ' Cordelia ' (votes, unanimous), from E. Mocatta, Esq., 

 Woburn Place, Addlestone. A very large fine-foliaged variety, the colour 

 being a yellow ground, nearly covered with bright-red shading to orange 

 in the younger leaves. 



To Calceolaria 1 Veitch's Hardy Hybrid ' (votes, unanimous), from 

 Messrs. R. Veitch, Exeter. A perfectly hardy variety raised from 

 C. herbacea x C. plantaginea ; flowers pure yellow, remarkably freely 

 produced on stems about a foot high, and continuing in blossom a long 

 time. In the Society's Gardens at Wisley this stood without any 

 protection all through the trying winter of 1906-1907 and received no 

 injury. (Fig. 23.) 



To Papaver orientale ' Jennie Mawson ' (votes, 18 for), from Messrs. 

 Mawson, Windermere. Flowers very large and of a rosy-salmon shade of 

 colour, with a bold dark blotch at the base of each segment. The flowers 

 are of much substance and should stand well. 



To Amphicome Emodi (votes, 19 for), from Messrs. J. Veitch, Chelsea. 

 An old and somewhat delicate plant, with pale rosy flowers, produced and 

 similar in form to Incazvillea Delavayii, but smaller and distinct from 

 that plant. 



To Lathyrus filiformis, under the name Ervum gracile (votes, 

 unanimous), from Mr. M. Prichard, Christchurch. A lovely perennial 

 Leguminous plant with dark purplish-blue flowers borne in a cluster of 

 nine or ten blossoms. The leaves are about 9 inches long, narrow, and 

 grass-like. A very effective plant for the rockery. 



To Sweet Pea 1 Paradise Carmine ' (votes, unanimous), from Miss 

 Hemus, Upton-on-Severn. A large finely formed liower of a deep carmine 

 colour. 



To Sweet Pea 1 Evelyn Hemus ' (votes, unanimous), from Miss Hemus. 

 A very large, strong-growing variety with shapely creamy-white flowers 

 margined with rosy-pink. 



To Carnation ' The Squire ' (votes, 15 for, 2 against), from Mrs. 

 Berkeley, Spetchley Park, Worcester. A perfectly formed, handsome 

 liower of rosy-heliotrope colour, sweet-scented, and non-splitting calyx. 



