I-LOKAL COMMITTEE, JULY 31. 
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deliciously scented amber-yellow flowers blotched with orange-yellow at 
the base of the segments. 
Aicard of Merit. 
To NymphjFa sangumea (votes, unanimous), from Leopold de Eoth- 
schild, Esq.^ Gunnersbury House, Acton (gr. Mr. Jas. Hudson, V.M.H.). 
A variety with medium-sized flowers with rather broad deep-red petals 
shading to purple. The stamens are golden yellow. 
To Double Begonia * Mrs. Andrew Tweedie ' (votes, unanimous), from 
^Messrs. Ware, Feltham. A remarkably fine variety with large white 
€amellia-like flowers, touched with greenish yellow in the centre. The 
petals are broad and very substantial. 
To Double Begonia ' S. T. Wright' (votes, 14 for, 1 against), from 
Messrs. Ware. Medium-sized, excellently shaped flowers of a rich apricot 
suffused with orange. 
To strain of Pentstemons (votes, unanimous), from Messrs. Dobbie, 
Bothesay. A very fine strain with large variously coloured flowers. The 
plants are of sturdy habit and very free-flowering. 
Other Exhibits. 
The Duchess of Westminster, Chesham, Bucks (gr. Mr. Melville), 
sent Carnations. 
J. H. Bushby, Esq., Wormley Bury, Wormley, sent flowering shoots 
of Catalpa syringifolia. A very handsome, hardy, deciduous tree, well 
adapted for planting in and about towns. 
J. T. Bennett-Poe, Esq., Homewood, Cheshunt (gr. Mr. Downes), 
sent Lobelia ' Ibis.' 
A. Mott, Esq., Scotswood, Sunningdale, sent Carnation 'Lilian May.' 
Mrs. M. A. Banger, The Elms, Southwick, Brighton, sent Lathyrus 
- Maggie Banger,' a form of L. delicata. 
Lord Suflield, Gunton Park, Norwich (gr. Mr. W. Allan), sent Carnation 
^ Major Harbord.' 
Leopold de Kothschild, Esq., Acton (gr. Mr. James Hudson, V.M.H.), 
sent flowers of Nymph^ea stellata grown from seed only sown in February 
1900. 
Messrs. Bunyard, Maidstone, sent flowers of Stanleya pinnata, an 
uncommon hardy perennial from Colorado. 
From Mr. E. Jenkins, Hampton Hill, came a large flowering branch 
of Euonymus japonicus. 
^lessrs. Paul, Cheshunt, sent Amorpha canescens, a hardy shrub with 
an abundance of long slender racemes of deep blue flowers. 
Mr. F. C. Fowle, Teignmouth, Devon, sent Border Carnations. 
Messrs. R. Veitch, Exeter, sent herbaceous plants and hardy shrubs. 
From Mr. James Douglas, V.M.H., Edenside, Great Bookham, came 
a group of Border Carnations. 
Messrs. Wallace, Kilnfield Gardens. Colchester, sent hardy flowers. 
Messrs. James Veitch, Chelsea, sent sprays of hardy flowering shrubs. 
Mr. W. Treseder, Cardiff, sent a seedlmg Echinops named ' Treseder 
var.' 
From Messrs. Laing, Forest Hill, came a group of Streptocarpus. 
