Ixxxviii PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Trial of Horticultural Sundries. 



The Council will continue their Trial of Sundries in 1915, and 

 Sundriesmen are again invited to send their specialities (not more 

 than three articles in any one year). Full particulars, with Entry 

 Form, can be obtained from the Secretary, R.H.S., Vincent Square, 

 S.W., upon receipt of a stamped addressed envelope- 



20. SEEDLING DAHLIAS. 



The Society's trial of Dahlias, from a garden decorative point 

 of view, carried out in the gardens of Reginald Cory, Esq., at 

 Duffryn, has proved a genuine success, and in consideration of this, 

 and desiring to encourage raisers still further to devote particular 

 attention to producing varieties well adapted to garden decoration, 

 Mr. Cory felt the desirability of holding a further trial this year, and, 

 after putting his views before the Council of the Society and the 

 National Dahlia Society, and being assured of their wiUingness to 

 co-operate as they did last year, it has been decided to hold a trial in 

 19 14 of seedUngs not in commerce and any varieties offered for the 

 first time in 1914. 



These will be grown, judged, and reported on in exactly the 

 same way, and as far as possible by the same individuals, as in 1913. 

 Mr. Cory kindly offers the Council a £5 5s. Cup to be awarded to the 

 most meritorious plant, and the Council will give any other awards 

 they think fit. 



21. DAHLIA PRIZES AT THE R.H.S. MEETING 

 ON SEPTEMBER 8, 1914. 



The object of this competition is not so much to attract the finest 

 cut blooms as seen on the Show stand, for such flowers may, when 

 growing on the plant, be almost invisible, and no contribution to the 

 decoration of the Garden, whatever they may be for cutting. The object 

 is to discover the most Decorative Garden Dahlias — that is, those 

 varieties which add most to the beauty of the Garden, for, as is well 

 known, not a few of the most glorious Dahha flowers add nothing to 

 the aspect of the Garden as they are hidden beneath the foHage. They 

 may be excellent to grow in the Kitchen Garden to cut for house 

 decoration, but they are useless for the ornamentation of the Pleasure 

 Garden. (See paragraph 20.) So-called Show Dahlias may also be 

 Decorative and therefore eligible. 



Schedule. 



Only flowers of those varieties which received commendation in 

 the 1 912 trials at Duffryn should be shown unless they be new varieties 

 not yet in commerce. Any others, no matter how attractive as cut 



