CXXX11 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Award of Merit. 



To Canna Star of '91 (votes, 4 for), grown at the Society's 

 Gardens, from Mr. C. Allen, Floral Nursery, New York. A very 

 pretty dwarf plant in the way of Mme. Crozy. 



To Gladiolus Numa (votes, 6 for), from Messrs. Kelway & Son, 

 Langport. A crimson variety with rosy lacing. 



To Gladiolus Poetis (votes, 10 for), from Messrs. Kelway & 

 Son. A pretty pale-buff variety. 



To Cactus Dahlias Kaiserine (votes, 11 for), a fine clear 

 yellow flower ; Bertha Mawley (votes, unanimous), with pretty 

 carmine flowers ; Countess of Radnor (votes, unanimous), a fine 

 glowing salmon ; Mrs. Basham (votes, 7 for, 1 against), rosy 

 pink, shaded with magenta, all from Messrs. Keynes, Williams 

 & Co., Salisbury. 



Other Exhibits. 



Messrs. J. Veitch & Sons sent a basket of cut flowers of the 

 brilliant salmon-rose coloured Bignonia grandiflora (Bot. Mag. 

 t. 1398). 



Messrs. Cannell & Sons staged some dwarf and well-grown 

 " Cockcombs " and a box of Begonia blooms. 



A hybrid Tacsonia named T. Smythiana was shown by Mr. 

 Smythe, Basing Park Gardens. 



Messrs. Pitcher & Manda exhibited a white Japanese Chry- 

 santhemum named Sydenham White. 



Passiflora Woodhatch Hybrid came from T. B. Haywood, 

 Esq., Woodhatch Lodge, Reigate. It is a cross between P. quad- 

 rangularis (Bot. Mag. t. 2041) and P. racemosa (Bot. Mag. 

 t. 2001). The flowers have a very dark centre. 



Flowering branches of Clerodendron trichotomum (Bot. Mag. 

 t. 6561) were shown by Messrs. J. Veitch & Sons, Chelsea. A 

 perfectly hardy species, which grows into a bushy-headed tree. 



Floral Committee, September 20, 1892. 



John Fraser, Esq., in the Chair, and twenty-two members 



present. 



Awards Recommended :— 



Silver Gilt Floral Medal. 



To Messrs. Dobbie & Co., Rothesay, N.B., for a large col- 



