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showed a distinct form of Cypripedium insigne of the Chantinii 

 type. 



Norman 0. Cookson, Esq., Oakwood, Wylam-on-Tyne, sent a 

 flower of the fine clear yellow and white Cypripedium insigne 

 Sanders. 



NARCISSUS COMMITTEE. 



Makch 22, 1892. 



Eev. G. H. Engleheaet in the Chair, and nine members 

 present. 



Mr. E. H. Jenkins showed bulbs attacked with what he con- 

 sidered to be a new fungoid disease. They were referred to the 

 Scientific Committee. 



He also drew attention to the ravages of bulb mites, and sug- 

 gested that they were the cause of the well-known "basal rot " 

 so fatal to Narcissi ; and a discussion took place as to whether 

 the mites caused the basal rot or whether the bulb smitten from 

 some other cause with the rot attracted the mites. Mr. Engle- 

 heart suggested that basal rot was only the regular method in 

 which a bulb died, its diffusion in a state of nature being chiefly 

 due to seed-propagation, whereas in a state of cultivation we rely 

 almost entirely on reduplication of the bulb, which, in his 

 opinion, must in time come to an end in each individual instance 

 by the ordinary method of death. This question was also referred 

 to the Scientific Committee. 



Miss Doyne sent blooms of a variety found in a cottage 

 garden in county Carlow, and called by her St. Austin. The 

 colour of the flowers, which were pure selfs, was a very pale 

 sulphur. It was named some years ago N. minor citrinus, but the 

 Committee decided unanimously that it was no near relation of 

 N. minor, approaching rather to the variety called N. asturicus. 

 They did not consider it of any great floral merit. 



The Eev. E. Gabbett, Croom Eectory, Limerick, sent flowers 

 of a variety found in his garden in 1884, and now called Croom - 

 a-boo. Its peculiarity consists in a sort of frilling which runs 

 over the outside of the trumpet. The Committee considered it to 

 be an abnormal form of Ard Eigh, and, if constant, very desirable 

 as a variety ; but as certain members of the Committee reported 



