Hv PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



FLORAL COMMITTEE. 



January 5, 1915. 



Mr. H. B. May, V.M.H., in the Chair, and twenty-five members 



present. 



Awards Recommended : — 



Silver-gilt Banksian Medal. 

 To Messrs. May, Edmonton, for greenhouse flowering plants and 

 ferns. 



Bronze Flora Medal. 

 To Messrs. Stuart Low, Bush Hill Park, for Carnations. 

 To Mr. Russell, Richmond, for shrubs. 



Award of Merit. 



To Pyracantha crenulata (votes, unanimous), from Hon. Vicary 

 Gibbs, Aldenham (gr. Mr. E. Beckett, V.M.H.). A handsome Fire 

 thorn. A small tree (the plant exhibited was 13 feet in height), 

 pyramidal in habit, lower branches long, with dark bark, drooping 

 with the weight of fruit ; leaves evergreen, glabrous, obovate, older 

 crenulate, younger entire ; fruits very freely produced in dense 

 axillary cymes, bright scarlet, J- to T 3 T3 inch in diameter. (Fig. 53.) 



Other Exhibits. 



Messrs. Allwood, Haywards Heath : Carnations. 



Messrs. Barr, Covent Garden : Galanthns Elwesii &c. 



Messrs. Cannell, Eynsford : Zonal Pelargoniums. 



Messrs. Cheal, Crawley : shrubs &c. 



Mr. Elliott, Stevenage : alpine plants. 



Misses Hopkins, Shepperton : rock plants. 



Messrs. Malby, Woodford : photographs. 



Miss Pilkington : paintings. 



Mr. Reuthe, Keston : miscellaneous plants. 



Messrs. Wells & Co., Merstham : Carnation ' Aviator.' 



Floral Committee, January 19, 1915. 



Mr. H. B. May, V.M.H., in the Chair, and twenty-three members 



present. 



Awards Recommended: — 



Silver-gilt Banksian Medal. 

 To Messrs. May, Edmonton, for epiphytic ferns. 



Silver Floral Medal. 

 To Mr. Perry, Enfield, for hardy ferns. 



