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Guildford Hardy Plant Nursery, Guildford : hardy plants. 



Mr. A. Harwood, Colchester : hardy plants. 



Messrs. Heath, Cheltenham : hardy plants. 



Mr. Honess, Dorking; Myosotis ' Marie Eaphael.' 



Misses Hopkins, Shepperton : hardy plants. 



Messrs. Jackman, Woking : hardy plants. 



Mr. W. J. Jenkins, Farnham : Pelargonium 'Emmeleine.' 



Mr. G. A. Keevil, Merthyr Vale: Pelargonium ' Coronation.' 



Mr. G. Kerswill, Exeter: Gentiana acaulis. 



King's Acre Nurseries, Hereford: Heliotropes. 



Mr. S. Mortimer, Farnham : Polyanthus. 



Messrs. G. Paul, Cheshunt : flowering shrubs. 



Messrs. Peed, Streatham : Japanese Maples. 



Mr. A. Perry, Enfield: hardy plants. 



Mr. G. Eeuthe, Keston : hardy plants. 



Mr. Y. Slade, Taunton : Zonal Pelargoniums. . 



Messrs. Sutton, Eeading: Cinerarias. 



Lord Swansea, Swansea : seedling Ehododendron. 



Mr. C. Turner, Slough : Eoses and Carnations. 



Mr. C. F. Waters, Balcombe : Carnations. 



Messrs. Whitelegg & Page, Chislehurst : hardy plants. 



Floral Committee, May 23, 1911. 

 Temple Show. 



:Mr. W. Marshall, V.M.H., in the Chair, and twenty-five members 



present. 



[For awards of cups and medals made by the Council after con- 

 ^sultation with the Judges, see p. Ixxxviii.] 



(Awards Recommended : 



First-class Certificate. 

 * To Davidia involucrata (votes, 12 for), from Messrs. J. Veitch, 

 Chelsea. This is a new and perfectly hardy tree introduced by 

 Messrs. Veitch through their collector, Mr. E. H. Wilson, from the 

 Province of Hupeh in Western China in 1903, and now flowering for 

 the first time in Great Britain at Messrs. Veitch 's Coombe Wood 

 Nursery. The chief beauty of the tree lies in the two large pure white 

 Dracts which surround the flower. The bracts are roughly ovate in 

 shape and unequal in size, the larger one being about 3 inches long, 

 vhile the flowers are of no decorative value. The leaves are very 

 landsome, broadly ovate, cordate at the base, acute, serrate, dark 

 ^reen, and mostly about 6 inches long by 4-^ inches broad. Some dried 

 specimens collected in China from adult trees showed much larger 

 )racts than those borne on the sprays exhibited. A large tree of 

 his interesting plant covered with numbers of the white bracts must 

 •e a very valuable and beautiful addition to any aboretum. (Fig. 113.) 



