CXI PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Prizes. 



Class 1. — Chrysanthemums, collection of cut blooms, distinct, 

 each bloom to be shown as cut from the plant without any 

 dressing, and to stand well above the moss covering the box. 

 Sticks or wires for support admissible. Amateurs. First Prize, 

 Silver Flora Medal and £2, to L. J. Baker, Esq., Otter shaw 

 Park, Chertsey. Second Prize, £1. 10s., to Mr. George Wythes, 

 gardener to the Duke of Northumberland, Syon House, Brentford. 



Class 2. — Twelve New Chrysanthemums, cut blooms, distinct, 

 sent out in the years 1890, 1891, or 1892. Amateurs. First 

 Prize, Silver Flora Medal and £1, to Mrs. Whitbourn, Great 

 Gearies, Ilford (gardener, Mr. James Douglas). 



Floral Committee, November 15, 1892. 



W. Marshall, Esq., in the Chair, and fourteen members 



present. 



Awards Recommended :— 



Silver Gilt Flora Medal. 

 To Mr. H. B. May, Dyson's Lane, Edmonton, for a large 

 group of Ferns, containing good examples of Lindsaya retusa, 

 Nephrodium (Lastrea) patens and N. lepidum, Marattia Cooperi 

 and Dicksonia (Cibotium) Eeginse. 



Silver Banksian Medal. 



To the Duke of Northumberland, Syon ^House, Brentford 

 (gardener, Mr. G. Wythes), for a collection of cut Chrysanthe- 

 mums, arranged with small Palms and Ferns. 



To Messrs. H. Cannell & Sons, Swanley, Kent, for a group of 

 cut Zonal Pelargoniums. Winter-flowering varieties, all shown in 

 good form. 



First Class Certificate. 

 To Begonia decora (votes, 11 for), from Messrs. Jas. Veitch 

 & Sons, Chelsea. A very pretty dwarf Malayan species, having 

 rough bronzy-green leaves, with yellowish-green veins. 



Award of Merit. 

 To Chrysanthemum Mr. Chas. Blick (votes, unanimous), from 



