FLORAL COMMITTEE, MARCH 23. 



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Bronze Banksian Medal. 

 To Misses Hopkins, Shepperton, for alpines. 



First-class Certificate. 



To Pteris aquilina congesta (votes, unanimous), from Messrs. May, 

 Edmonton. A very beautiful congested form of the common Bracken, 

 growing about two feet high. 



Award of Merit. 



To Begonia ' Saturne ' (votes, 12 for, 1 against), from Messrs. Cannell, 

 Swanley. A light rose variety of the Mexican B. hydrocotylifolia. 

 Leaves cordate, tinged on the underside with red. Flower-stalks 18 inches 

 high, red, pilose. Flowers 1 inch across, dipetalous ; capsule rose, tinged 

 green. 



To Carnation ' Rose Dore ' (votes, 16 for), from Mr. W. H. Lancashire, 

 Guernsey. A rosy-pink perpetual-flowering variety, with stiff stems and 

 good calyx. Faintly clove-scented. 



To Cineraria " Cactus-flowered " strain (votes, unanimous), from 

 Messrs. Sutton, Reading. A very free- flowering strain, with colours 

 ranging from white, through pink and lavender, to blue and purple. 

 Plants very dwarf and compact. (Fig. 21.) 



To Crocus Sieberi var. versicolor (votes, unanimous), from Mr. G. Reuthe, 

 Keston. A beautiful variety collected by Moore in Greece. Flowers 

 white, with the yellow tinge at the top of the perianth tube as in 

 C. Sieberi ; perianth tube and outer perianth pieces marked with purplish 

 black. 



To Rose 1 Rhea Reid ' (votes, 10 for, 1 against), from Mr. G. W. Piper, 

 Uckfield. A purple-carmine Hybrid Tea ; good form, but scentless. 

 (Fig. 22.) 



Other Exhibits. 



Messrs. Bakers, Wolverhampton : alpines. 



Messrs. Brooks, Basingstoke : Primula sinensis ' Queen Alexandra.' 

 Messrs. Bull, Chelsea : foliage plants and Amaryllis. 

 Messrs. Carter Page, London Wall, E.C. : Violas. 

 Messrs. F. Cant, Colchester : Rose ' Lady Roberts.' 

 The Earl of Clarendon, Watford : Violets. 

 Messrs. Clark, Dover : alpines. 

 Mr. Cornhill, Byfleet : Aubrietia ' Cloth of Gold.' 

 Guildford Hardy Plant Nursery : alpines, &c. 

 • Messrs. Heath, Cheltenham : Pelargoniums, &c. 



Messrs. Hill, Lower Edmonton : Osmunda pahtstris var. 



Mr. Pingo-Horton, Seaford : alpines, &c. 



Messrs. Jarman, Chard: Cinerarias. 



H. P. Keatinge, Esq., Cairo : Freesia 1 Egyptian Sunrise.' 



Messrs. Laing, Forest Hill : Clivias, &c. 



Messrs. Paul Cheshunt : Lachenalia 'His Reverence.' 



Miss Smith, Bognor : alpines. 



G. Whitaker, Esq., Palermo : Violet ' Tina Whitaker.' 

 Miss Willmott, Warley : E Usenet longipetala. 



