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Australia so long ago as 1820 and submitted to the Floral Committee 

 upon this occasion as A. harpophylla, should be so seldom seen, not- 

 withstanding its beauty at flowering time and general utility for green- 

 house decoration. It is free in growth with long arching shoots, clothed 

 with short flat glaucous phyllodia (leaves), and in early spring bears 

 great quantities of small canary-yellow flowers in terminal and axillary 

 racemes, each raceme bearing from eight to fifteen small round heads of 

 flowers. 



Cultural Commendation. 



To Mr. John N. May, Summit, New Jersey, U.S.A., for excellent 

 flowers of Eose ' Mrs. Oliver Ames.' The Committee expressed a wish 

 to see flowers from plants grown in this country. 



Other Exhibits. 



Mr. A. Chandler, Haslemere, sent an interesting collection of seedling 

 Lachenalias. 



Messrs. Low, Enfield, sent forced Lilac ' M. Buchner.' The Committee 

 asked to see flowers from the open ground. 



From Mr. H. T. Weeks, Garden Road, Bromley, came an invention 

 for protecting Crocuses &c. from birds. 



Messrs. Blampied & Taudevin, La Fosse, St. Martin's, Guernsey, and 

 Mr. A. J. Guilbert, 15 Pollet Street, Guernsey, sent plants and sprays of 

 an Asparagus named plumosus Blampiedii and plumosus samiensis 

 respectively. These proved to be identical, and the Committee adopted 

 the name of plumosus Blampiedii, given by the first-named exhibitor. 



Floral Committee, March 11, 1902. 

 Mr. W. Marshall in the Chair, and twenty-five members present. 



Awards Recommended:— 



Silver-gilt Flora Medal. 

 To Messrs. W. Paul, Waltham Cross), for forced shrubs. 



Silver- gilt Ba?iksian Medal. 

 To Messrs. Barr, Covent Garden, for hardy plants. 



Silver Flora Medal. 



To Colonel Rogers, Franklands, Burgess Hill, Sussex (gr. Mr. Murrell), 

 for Cyclamen. 



To Messrs. Low, Enfield, for Palms and flowering plants. 

 To Messrs. Jas. Veitch, Chelsea, for Clivias and Loropctalum chinense. 

 To Messrs. Cannell, Swanley, for Cinerarias, Primulas, and Cyclamen. 

 To Messrs. Cutbush, Highgate, for forced shrubs and Hepaticas. 



Silver Banhsian Medal. 



To Messrs. Paul Cheshunt, for Lachenalias and Camellias. 

 To Messrs. Jackman, Woking, for Alpines. 



