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: To Mrs. Scott-Elliott's strain of Aquilegias (votes, unanimous), 

 from Mrs. Scott-Elliott, Teviot Lodge, Hawick. After working for 

 over fifty years, this exhibitor has obtained what is probably the 

 most beautiful strain of long-spurred Aquilegias in cultivation. The 

 flowers are large, and vary in colour through charming shades of 

 cream, pink, lavender, blue, white, and red. 



To Carnation ' Mrs. Grifiith Jones ' (votes, lo for), from Mr. J. 

 Douglas, Great Bookham. A distinct and beautiful apricot self 

 border variety with smooth petals. 



To Carnation ' Mrs. Brotherstone ' (votes, i6 for), from Mr. J. 

 Douglas, Great Bookham. A good white-ground border variety, 

 heavily suffused and dotted with crimson, and possessing a very 

 strong clove scent. 



To Carnation * Robert Bruce ' (votes, 7 for, 3 against), from Mr. J. 

 Douglas, Great Bookham. A very fine orange-salmon border variety, 

 of good size and substance. 



To Clematis Sieholdii (votes, 14 for, i against), from Miss Willmott, 

 F.L.S. (gr. Mr. Fielder, V.M.H.), Great Warley. A very pretty 

 hardy climber introduced from Japan by Dr. Siebold, after whom it 

 is named. The six ovate acute sepals, each measuring about if inch 

 long, are amber-white in colour, and contrast pleasingly with the 

 violet-blue central mass of modified stamens, which measures about 

 I J inch across. The leaves are ternate, with lobed leaflets. (Fig. 64.) 



To Deutzia discolor elegantissima (votes, unanimous), from Eliza- 

 beth, Lady Lawrence (gr. Mr. Bain), Dorking. A beautiful dwarf 

 shrub growing about 2 feet high, and producing gracefully arching 

 branches bearing axillary corymbose bunches of 20 or more lilac- 

 pink flowers, each measuring f inch in diameter. 



To Erigeron hybridus ' B. Ladhams ' (votes, 14 for, 2 against), 

 from Messrs. Ladhams, Shirley, Southampton. An interesting 

 seedling from E. aurantiacus of stiff erect habit. The flowers measure 

 about I J inch across and are mauve-pink in colour. The height of 

 the plant is about 2 feet. 



To Iris chrysographes (votes, unanimous), from W. R. Dykes, 

 Esq., M.A., Godalming and Miss Willmott, F.L.S. , Great Warley. A 

 beautiful species introduced in 1908 from S.W. China by Mr. E. H. 

 Wilson, V.M.H. The flowers are deep violet-purple in colour, with 

 a central line of gold on the long, hanging falls, and a few dots of the 

 same at the throat. The plant grows about 2j- feet high and has 

 grassy foliage. 



To Iris ' Iota ' (votes, 15 for, 2 against), from W. R. Dykes, Esq., 

 M.A., Godalming. A very beautiful hybrid between I. tenax and 

 /. Purdyi. The seed was sown in 1910, and one plant at the time of 

 exhibiting was bearing forty-two flower spikes. The flowers are of a 

 white ground-colour, charmingly shaded and veined with pale lilac- 

 mauve. They are borne two on a stem. The standards are erect and 

 lanceolate, while the falls are oblong-cuneate and the foliage is long, 

 narrow, and arching. 



