February JJ, 1894, 
JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
149 
-The National Dahlia Society. —The annual general meeting 
of this Society was held at the Hotel Windsor on the 13th inst., 
Mr. E. Mawley presiding. According to the annual report, owing to 
the drought of the spring and summer Dahlia plants were late in 
getting rooted into the soil, but the annual Show at the Crystal Palace, 
though scarcely so extensive as usual, brought together a remarkably 
fine display of Show and Fancy, Cactus, and Decorative Pompon and 
single Dahlias of surprising quality. Allusion was made to the great 
Herbert Pictor Box, and Hewitt of Stone, Kent. Mr. E. Mawley was 
re-elected Treasurer, and Mr. T. W. Girdlestone Secretary, and some 
additions were made to the Committee. 
RHODODENDRON MULTICOLOR MRS. HEAL. 
This is a charming dwarf-growing Rhododendron, and when 
exhibited by Messrs. J. Veitch & Sons, Royal Exotic Nurseries, Chelsea^ 
Fig. 23.—rhododendron MULTICOLOR MRS. HEAL. 
loss sustained by the death of Mr. W. H. Williams of Salisbury, and to 
one of the Vice-Presidents, Mr. Samuel Barlow of Manchester. Arrange¬ 
ments have been made with the Crystal Palace Company for the usual 
exhibitions to take place on the first Friday and Saturday in September, 
the company making the usual contribution to the prize fund. The 
receipts from all sources, including a balance in hand, amounted to 
£155 17s. fid, and the expenditure, including £119 178. paid in prizes, 
left a balance of £9 99. 2d., but a portion of this was due for prize 
money unpaid. The President and Vice-President were re-elected, with 
the addition of the names of Messrs. Joseph Tasker, Brentwood ; 
at the Drill Hall, Westminster, on the 13th inst., a first-class certificate 
was awarded for it by the Floral Committee of the Royal Horticultural 
Society. It is a hybrid, said to be the result of a cross between 
R. multicolor and Princess Beatrice, a variety of the javanico-jasmini- 
florura group. The plants exhibited, and from which the illustration 
(fig. 23) has been prepared, were only about 9 inches in height, but pro¬ 
fusely fiowered. The blooms are white, and an inch or so in diameter, 
and, being freely produced on very small plants, this Rhododendron 
will doubtless become popular for warm greenhouse and oonEenatory 
1 decoration. 
