38 JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY, 
are twenty-seven herbs, of which six are best treated as biennials. 
Of the woody plants forty-six are deciduous and twenty-seven are 
evergreen, and of these fifty-two" are shrubs, fourteen are climbers, 
and seven are trees. All the plants exhibited were raised from material 
which I collected in China, but it is known that eleven of them were 
or had been introduced to cultivation independently. The percentage 
of one F.C.C. to three A.M. is a high average, and it will readily be 
conceded that with scarcely an exception the plants are of permanent 
value to our gardens. In addition to those enumerated several other 
plants have been awarded the B.C., and in the hands of the hybridist 
the Astilbes and Primulas have yielded results which have received 
awards. 
