clxii PEOCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTUEAL SOCIETY. 
Nakcissus Committee, May 8, 1900. 
A. KiNGSMiLL, Esq., in the Chair, and nine members present. 
TheEev. G. H. Engleheart, V.M.H., brought three poeticus varieties : 
' Spenser,' a variety of good size and substance, with broad red eye, 
bringing the red-eyed poeticus down to P. recurvus and the later poeticus 
section in date of bloom, a smaller, neat, red-eyed variety, ' Eondo ; ' and 
Fig. 109.— Narcissus Olympia. {Gardeners' Magazine.) 
' Sonnet,' a circular flower with large yellow eye, rimmed red. The 
Committee desired to see these flowers again in larger quantity. 
From Miss K. Spurrell, Blessingham, Hanworth, Norwich, came 
several seedhngs, one of which, ' Major Spurrell,' has considerable 
merit — a large flower with white perianth and broad, red-edged eye, of 
nearly poeticus-like flatness. The specimens were past their best, and 
the Committee desired to see the flower again. As the regulation number 
