Ixxx PEOCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
Double-flowered Tulips : 
Tournesol, Imperator Eubrorum, and El Toreador. 
A descriptive report on Tulips will be found on page 178. 
Floral Committee, May 8, 1900. 
W. Marshall, Esq., in the Chair, and twenty-three members present. 
Awards Recommended :— 
Silver-gilt Flora Medal. 
To Mr. A. Perry, Winchmore Hill, for hardy flowers. 
Silver-gilt Banksian Medal. 
To Messrs. Hogg k Kobertson, Dublin, for Tulips. 
To Messrs. Barr, Covent Garden, for hardy flowers. 
Silver Flora Medal. 
To Messrs. Cutbush, Highgate, for flowering plants. 
To Mr. H. J. Jones, Lewisham, for Tulips and Daffodils. 
To Messrs. Cheal, Crawley, for sprays of hardy trees and shrubs. 
Silver Banksian Medal. 
To Messrs. Jackman, Woking, for Alpines and herbaceous flowers. 
To Messrs. Laing, Forest Hill, for hardy forced shrubs. 
Bronze Banksian Medal. 
To Miss Jekyll, V.M.H., Munstead Wood, Godalming (gr. Mr. A. 
Zumbach), for a most glorious group of white and yellow Polyanthus 
Primroses (Munstead strain). 
To Mr. M. Prichard, Christchurch, Hants, for hardy flowers. 
First-class Certificate. 
To Asparagus Sprengeri variegatus (votes, unanimoas), from Messrs. 
Sander, St. Albans. This is a sport from the type from which it differs 
by reason of its silvery grey foliage. It is a splendid basket plant. 
Atoard of Merit. 
To Tulipa Borszczowi (votes, unanimous), from Miss Willmott, V.M.H., 
Warley, Essex. A rare Asiatic species with well-formed flowers borne 
on slender stems about ten inches in length, colour orange yellow stained 
with orange red on the exterior of the petals and marked with yellow at 
the base. (Fig. 59.) 
To Tulipa Kolpakowskiana (votes, unanimous), from Miss Wilmott, 
V.M.H. Another charming species introduced from Turkestan so long 
ago as 1577. Its campanulate flowers, about 2^ inches across, are 
slightly fragrant, variable in colour, but generally bright scarlet, and 
have a yellow base blotched with black. The exterior of the petals is 
suffused with orange red. 
