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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
535 
Certificates and Awards. 
Chrysanthemum Mrs. Robinson King (Mr. Blair). — This yellow 
incurved has been described frequently, and needs no special comment 
(award of merit). 
Chrysanthemum Enterprise (Mr. B. Owen).—A charming variety 
difficult to classify. It is neither a true large nor Japanese Anemone, 
but is likely to become popular for all that. The guard florets are soft 
rosy pink, the centre lemon (award of merit). 
Chrysanthemum Viscountess Hambled on (Mr. It. Owen).—A Japanese 
with very broad, substantial, incurving florets, white, in one example 
also streaked with mauve (award of merit). 
Chrysanthemum Waban (Mr. It. Owen).—A large Japanese with 
broad florets, white flushed with rose, and with a clear edging of rosy 
carmine (award of merit). 
Chrysanthemum Robert Owen (Mr. Owen).—A large, deep, and 
massive incurved, rich deep yellow (award of merit). 
Camellia Sasangue (Messrs. Yeitch & Sens).—This is a single species 
from Japan with bright rose flowers, having prominent yellow stamens, 
and described as hardy. It is a beautiful species, and may prove 
valuable for hybridising (first-class certificate). A double white form 
was also shown. 
Sophro-Cattleya Calypso (Messrs. Yeitch & Sons).—This beautiful 
bigeneric hybrid is a cross between Cattleya Loddigesi and Sophronitis 
grandiflora, the former being the seed parent. It is a charming and 
richly coloured flower, the sepals and petals being rich rosy carmine, 
the throat buttery yellow, the lip deeply margined with rosy carmine. 
It is dwarf with lanceolate leaves (first-class certificate). 
Cypripedium Arete (Messrs. Yeitch & Sons).—This is a hybrid 
between C. Spicerianum and C. concolor, the former being the seed 
parent. It is a miniature form with marbled leaves and speckled flowers, 
the ground colour being white or greenish, specked and streaked with 
rose (award of merit). 
Chrysanthemum Mdlle. Marie Recoura (Messrs. Cannell & Sons).— 
A large white Japanese with long slender florets, likely to turn out 
valuable for late use (award of merit). 
Cypripedium Johnsonianum (Messrs. Sander & Co.).—This hybrid is 
a cross between C. nitens magnificum and C. Lawrenceanum. The lip 
petals are of burnished purple. The lower area of the dorsal sepal is 
deep green, the upper portion and edges pure white, lines of purple dots 
running through from top to bottom (award of merit). 
Lcelia Fincheniana (C. W. Finchen, Esq.).—A charming form with 
pure white sepals and petals. The prominent lip is white with a broad 
patch of magenta ; the wings of the tube are white with magenta 
streaks (award of merit). 
Cattleya labiata alba (M. Wells, Esq.).—A pure white form of 
labiata emanating from a portion of Messrs. Sanders’ importation. It 
is absolutely pure white save for a lemon tinge in the throat, and 
extremely beautiful (first-class certificate). 
Masdevallia liybrida McVittice (W. Thompson, Esq.).—A hybrid 
between tovarensis and Yeitchi, with bluntly lanceolate leaves and pale 
rosy-mauve flowers (award of merit). 
Cattleya amethystoglossa, Selwood variety (E. D. Owen, Esq.).— 
A distinct and attractive winter flowering form, having long slender 
pseudo-bulbs, with a cluster of six flowers. The sepals and petals are 
cream coloured with a number of magenta blotches, the tip and the 
edge of the tube rich magenta (award of merit). 
Lcelia anceps Oweniana (E. D. Owen, Esq.).—A charming and richly 
coloured variety, with petals and sepals of a brilliant rose, paler at the 
base and with conspicuous white patches. The lip is rich magenta and 
the yellowish throat is streaked with the same colour (award of merit). 
Chrysanthemum Fred Dorner (Messrs. Pearson & Sons).—A yellow 
Japanese, with deep globular flowers that will prove valuable for 
decorative purposes if free in blooming (award of merit). 
NATIONAL ROSE SOCIETY. 
Annual Meeting. 
The sixteenth annual general meeting of the National Rose Society 
was held in the rooms of the Horticultural Club at the Hotel Windsor, 
Victoria Street, S.W., on Tuesday, December 13th. The Rev. AY. Wilks, 
in the absence of the President of the Society, the Very Rev. the Dean 
of Rochester, occupied the chair, and there was a large attendance of 
members. The first important item on the agenda was the reading of 
the Report for closing year, and the financial statement, both of which 
are given below. 
Report of the Committee for the Year 1892. 
In accordance with a resolution passed at the last annual general 
meeting of the Society, requiring amateur exhibitors to show according 
to the number of plants of exhibition varieties grown by them, the 
Committee drew up schedules early in the year in order to meet these 
altered requirements. The new system appears to have worked admir¬ 
ably, and greatly to the satisfaction of all classes of exhibitors. Indeed, 
the Committee are of opinion that in taking this important step, the 
Society has every reason to congratulate itself on being the first horti¬ 
cultural society in the kingdom to adopt any such complete and 
equitable arrangement for the benefit of its numerous amateur 
exhibitors. Several of the affiliated societies have already shown their 
approval of the new classification by framing their own schedules on 
similar lines, and it is to be hoped that another year other Rose 
societies may follow their example. 
Three Exhibitions have again been held. That which took place at 
the Royal Horticultural Society’s Exhibition Hall at Westminster, owing 
to the backwardness of the season, again proved a small one. On the 
other hand, the Crystal Palace Show was the largest which the Society 
has ever held, the number of blooms staged in competition, not including 
garden Roses, amounting to 7100. The provincial Exhibition held at 
Chester was also a remarkably fine and extensive one. Unfortunately, 
the Show day proved wet throughout, and consequently the attendance 
of visitors was very limited. 
A sub-Committee has been appointed to prepare a new catalogue of 
exhibition and garden Roses, the old one being now somewhat out of 
date, having been issued in 1881. Several meetings have been already 
held by this Committee, and it is expected that the new catalogue will 
be ready for distribution to members during the course of the ensuing 
spring. 
The position of the Society, as the leading authority on all matters 
connected with the Rose, is fully sustained, while there are at the 
present time more members and affiliated societies on the Society s 
books than at any previous period—viz., 527 members, and thirty-six 
affiliated societies. 
Financial Statement. 
The Treasurer is again enabled to report favourably upon the 
Society’s financial position. The income from all sources, including 
a balance of £10 Os. lid. from last year, was £719. 7s. lid., while the 
total expenditure amounted to £687 11s. Id., leaving £31 163. 7d. to 
be carried forward to the next account. 
BALANCE-SHEET FOR THE YEAR ENDING 30th NOVEMBER, 1892. 
1891 
Dec. 1 
Receipts. 
Balance at bankers.. 
Subscriptions. 
Donations .. .. .. . 
Affiliation fees and for medals from affiliated societies.. 
From Crystal Palace Company .. .. • • • • 
,, Chester .. .. . 
Special prizes. 
Catalogues sold. 
Advertisements. 
1892. 
Dec. 1 Balance 
Expenditure. 
Printing, stationery, and advertising 
Postage, telegrams, and sundry expenses .. 
Secretary’s travelling expenses to arrange shows 
Expenses Drill Hall Show .. .. 
„ 0. Palace Show. 
,, Chester Show . 
Medals. 
„ for affiliated societies. 
Repairing epergne . 
Prizes Drill Hall Show .. .. • • • 
„ 0. Palace Show. 
„ Chester Show. 
Assistant Secretary and Accountant 
Balance at bankers .. .. 
T. B. Haywood, Treasurer . 
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368 
4 
0 
15 
0 
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88 
18 
0 
105 
0 
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70 
0 
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6 
20 
8 
6 
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7 
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£31 
16 
7 
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51 
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0 
37 
16 
8 
6 
12 
6 
1 
5 
0 
9 
8 
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71 
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267 
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164 
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£719 7 11 
Arrangements for 1893. 
The Committee have made the following arrangements for the coming 
year -_An early Show of Tea and Noisette Roses will be held in con- 
iunction with the Royal Horticultural Society at their Exhibition Hall 
at Westminster on Tuesday, June 20th, while the Metropolitan Exhibi¬ 
tion will take place, as usual, at the Crystal Palace on Saturday, July 1st. 
Applications have been received from three different affiliated societies 
requesting the Society to hold the Provincial Show next year in their 
neighbourhood. After due consideration the Committee have decided to 
accept the application of the Worksop Rose and Horticultural Society. 
Arrangements have accordingly been made to hold the Provincial or 
Northern Show in connection with that Society at AVorksop on Thursday, 
July 13th. 
Members’ Privileges. 
Subscribers of £1 will, as in previous years, be entitled to two 
private view tickets for the Society’s Exhibitions at the Crystal Palace 
and at Worksop, and to four transferable tickets, admitting at the same 
time as the general public ; while subscribers of 10s. are entitled to one 
private view and to two transferable tickets. Every member will also 
receive one ticket of admission to the early Exhibition of Tea Roses at 
Westminster. They will also be entitled to a copy of the Society s new 
descriptive catalogue of exhibition and garden Roses as soon as issued. 
Members ioining the Society for the first time next year will also receive 
a copy of this new catalogue. Members alone are allowed to compete 
at the Society’s Exhibitions. . , 
The Committee desire, in conclusion, to convey their best thanks to 
the local Secretaries, upon whose exertions the welfare of a Society like 
this so much depends ; and especially to Mr. C. J. Grahame, local Secre¬ 
tary for Croydon, who has again secured for the Society a large number 
of new members. To the donors of special prizes their thanks are also 
due for donations of this kind are always extremely welcome, as they 
not’only relieve the funds of the Society, but also often add very con¬ 
siderably to the interest of the exhibitions themselves. The Committee 
