Xlii PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY, 



Reichenbach in this group (a group of only slight importance in 

 the garden). The present plant may belong to one of these, but 

 Mr! Rolfe could not quite make it fit any of them. More distinct 

 plants, he says, have been referred to 0. angustatum, and he considers 

 it should be placed there for the present. 



Tomatos dying. — Some small Tomato plants were shown from 

 Guernsey, the grower complaining that they had drooped to some 

 extent and looked otherwise unhealthy. The Secretary reported 

 that he had found numerous though very small nodules on their roots 

 inhabited by the " root-knot " eel worm, Heterodera radicicola. 



Hybrid scented-leaved Pelargoniums. — Mr. J. Fraser, F.L.S., con- 

 tinued his remarks upon the scented-leaved Pelargoniums in the 

 Wisley collection, and dealt especially with the hybrids of Pelargonium 

 cumllatum, P. angulosum, and P. acerifolium. 



Curious Growth of Hyacinth. — Mr. R. C. Notcutt sent a curious 

 Hyacinth v/ith a flower-spike growing downwards into the glass, 

 issuing from the base of the bulb. There was also a normal growth 

 at its apex. A section through the bulb showed an adventitious bud 

 to have developed on the edge of the scale leaf, as often occurs when, 

 as in the present case, the bulb has been injured. This bulb developed 

 a flowering shoot, and this found its way out of the bulb by the easiest 

 path — viz., through the damaged base of the bulb. 



Small Narcissus Fly. — Mr. P. D. Williams sent from Cornwall a 

 bulb of Narcissus containing numerous larvae of the small Narcissus 

 fly, Eumerus strigatus. This fly is apparently very destructive to 

 Narcissus bulbs in certain seasons, and has been reported to attack 

 various bulbs, including onions. The Secretary said he had hatched 

 out the flies from rhizomes of Iris attacked by the larvae. They are 

 allied to Merodon, the better-known Narcissus fly, but are much 

 smaller and more like a house-fly in appearance. The larva, with 

 the three projections from the blunt tail end, the middle one of which 

 is red, is also very distinct. 



Scientific Committee, March io, 1914. 



Mr. E. A. Bowles in the Chair, with eleven members present, and 

 Mr. A. R. Goodwin, visitor. 



Narcissus Hybrids. — Mr. A. R. Goodwin showed a hybrid between 

 Narcisstis cyclamineus and N. ' Golden Spur ' flowering now from 

 seed sown four years ago. Like most of the cyclamineus hybrids, it 

 has poor, weak foliage, but the concolorous flowers had the broad 

 perianth pieces reflexed, and a long corona, somewhat frilled and 

 expanded at the mouth. 



He also showed N. Leedsii ' Minnie Hume ' X N. Jonquilla. This 

 had rush-like foHage as tall as that of ' Minnie Hume,' and the yellowish 

 flowers retained the Jonquil scent, though rather toned down. The 

 hybrid is called ' Fragrance,' and was raised by Mr. Copeland. 



