lxvi PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
Scientific Committee, September 6, 1921. 
Mr. E. A. Bowles, M.A., in the Chair, and five members present. 
Atriplex hortensis. — Mrs. Goldring sent A triplex hortensis ruber to show its 
value as a red plant in borders, and the strength of its stem for staking purposes. 
Colchicum. — Mr. Bowles showed Colchicum Sibthorpei from Salonika, C. 
speciosum and its varieties giganteum, rubrum, Bornmulleri ; C. cilicicum, 
Tenorei, laetum, byzantium, and a small Spanish species resembling alpinum 
but flowering later. 
Amaryllis Belladonna. — -Mr. H. J. Elwes showed the flowers of the type, 
a supposed hybrid between it and Brunsvigia, known as A. x Parkeri, and a 
very fine deeply coloured form, the old flowers almost crimson, at all ages strongly 
orange on filaments and in the throat, and reported a white form now in flower 
at Kew, obtained from Messrs. Sander from among the original stock of 
A. x Parkeri. 
Monstrous Vegetable Marrow. — A drawing of a vegetable marrow plant 
which had produced only two leaves in addition to the cotyledons, but which 
had made no further growth, was shown from Mr. Parkin. 
Scientific Committee, September 20, 1921. 
Mr. E. A. Bowles, M.A., in the Chair, and six members present. 
Hybrid Carnation and Sweet William. — Mr. Bliss wrote concerning the 
hybrid Carnation-Sweet William, drawing attention to the supposed origin of 
Fairchild's Pink, which by some is attributed to the Marguerite Carnation x 
Sweet William. Mr. Bowles said he had recently seen at Lanarth a fine scarlet 
cross between the Carnation ' Uriah Pike ' and the Sweet William. 
Various plants. — Mr. H. J. Elwes showed a number of plants from his garden, 
including a Rhodostachys, probably littoralis ; a hybrid Vallota (V. purpurea x 
Gastronema), which showed the trifid stigma of the Gastronema] Hippeastrum 
brachyandrum, which he regarded as nearly related to Zephyranthes, and which 
came to him from the late Canon Ellacombe's garden ; Gladiolus Masoniorum ; 
Senecio pulcher, which can be propagated by root cuttings ; Funkia cordata ; 
Solidago humifusa ; Dracocephalum Forrestii ; Umbilicus sp. ; Aralia edulis ; 
Stapelia sp. ; the curious and rare Mesembryanthemum Elishae ; M. tuber culosum ; 
Huernia aspera ; and others. 
Various hybrids. — -Mr. Marsden Jones showed Geum coccineum x G. 
urbanum, and various crosses of Chinese Delphiniums (including forms of D. 
grandiflorum). 
Cyclamen with upright flowers. — Mr. Bowles showed flowers of Cyclamen 
neapolitanum with flowers erect instead of inverted as usual, and remarked that 
some had failed to draw down their seed for a considerable time. He also 
showed a curiously 
Fas dated Holly from Earlham Hall, with a stem resembling that of an 
Opuntia. 
Scientific Committee, September 27, 1921. 
Mr. E. A. Bowles, M.A., in the Chair, and four members present. 
Ailanthus fruiting. — -Mr. Bowles showed from a garden in Oxford ripe fruit of 
Ailanthus glandulosus. 
Rhytisma acerinum. — He also showed leaves of Sycamore badly attacked 
by the fungus Rhytisma acerinum. " 
Narcissus viridiflorus. — Mr. Bowles showed from his garden a spike of three 
flowers of the sweet-scented green-flowered Narcissus viridiflorus. It was 
grown in a cold frame. 
Fruits of Akebia lobata and Stauntonia latifolia were shown by Mr. Gerald 
Loder, who also showed fruit of Actinidia chinensis from a solitary plant of that 
species in his garden at Ardingley. 
