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JOURNAL OF HORTICDLTUEE AND COTTAGE GAEDENEB. 



[ February 13, 1873. 



Carnea maxima. — Guard petals flesh ; inner petals fringed, 

 of a iJiimrose colour. 



Augu^te Van Gecrt. — Guard petals purplish rose; centre 

 petals rosy piuk, interspersed with pale pink and white petals. 



Alba mqicrha. — White, shaded with pale pink ; centre petals 

 straw-coloured. Very sweet-scented. 



Amabilis plenissima. — Guard petals flesh pink, surrounded 

 ■with white ; centre petals quilled, of a light primrose colour. 

 Very sweet-scented. 



Madame Marrjottin. — Guard petals rosy pink, with purplish 

 marblings ; centre petals flesh pink, tipped with a softer shade 

 of the same colour. Very sweet-scented. 



Prince Oiaiies. — Guard petals pale rosy purple ; centre 

 petals primrose. The flowers of this are small. 



Puleiierrima. — Guard petals white, tinged with primrose; 

 centre petals almost white. 



3Irs. Hartnell — Guard petals rose pink ; centre petals of the 

 same colour, interspersed with white petals. Rose-scented. 



Jeanne d'Arc. — Guard petals pink, surrounded with white; 

 centre white or cream, some of the petals streaked with car- 

 mine. Very sweet-scented. 



Eclatantc. — Guard petals rose, with a carmine tint ; centre 

 petals same, tipped with white. Very sweet scented. 



Lilacina. — Guard petals rosy lilac, tipped with pink ; centre 

 petals rosy lilac, tipped with pale pink, interspersed with lilac 

 and white petals. Rose-scented. 



GLOBULAK-FLOWEKED. 



Candidissima. — Very double and globular; reflesed outer 

 petals white, centre pale straw. 



La Stihlime. — Base of the petals tipped and margined white. 



Atrosanguinea. — Purplish crimson. 



Amaranthescens spharica. — Crimson lake, veined and striped 

 crimson. Very sweet-scented. 



CenlifoJia rosea. — Delicate pink, tipped and edged with white. 

 Sweet-scented. 



Charles Binder. — Purplish rose, some of the petals tipped 

 and edged light pink. Sweet-scented. 



Leonie. — Flesh pink; tips of petals white ; some tipped and 

 margined soft rose. 



Festiva maxima.— VThite, with creamy yeUow shading; a 

 few of the centre petals splashed and striped crimson. 



Gloire de Doiiai. — Purplish crimson. 



Amabilix suiterba. — Rosy piuk, interspersed with creamy- 

 white petals. 



Prince Prosper. — Crimson lake. 



The Queen. — Creamy white; base of the petals primrose, 

 tipped with white. — G. Abbey. 



EOTAL HOBTICULTUEAL SOCIETY. 



ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING. 

 Fbbbuaby 11th. 



The Annual General Meeting of the Eoyal Horticultural 

 Society was held on Tuesday in the CouncU-room, South Ken- 

 sington. Lord Heury G. Lennox, M.P., in the chair. 



The Assistant Sechet.uiy (Mr. Eichards) read the Minutes 

 of last Annual Meeting, which were approved. 



Messrs. Fortune and Moobe were appointed Scrutineers of 

 the ballot. 



The Assistant Secbetaky then read the 



Eepoet of the Council to the Annual Genekal Meeting" 

 1. The number of Fellows is now so great — viz., 3572, and the 

 motives which have induced them to join the Society are so 

 different, and in some respects contradictory, that it has been 

 difficult to conduct its affairs so as to satisfy all parties. Regard 

 for science, love for flowers and flower shows, social motives, 

 the couveuieuce of using the Garden at South Kensington, and 

 the International Exliibition privileges, have each had a sliaro 

 in attracting Fellows into the Society, and it is plain that some 

 of these objects must necessarily be antagonistic to each other. 

 The Council have always endeavoured to adjust them, or to hold 

 an even balance between them, as far as possible studying in 

 every case to consult the wishes of the majority, without losing 

 sight of the special objects for which the Society was founded 

 and exists ; but they have to acknowledge that this has some- 

 times proved beyond their power. The great difficulty which 

 they have latterly had to encounter has been to reconcile the 

 incompatible desires of those who value the International Ex- 

 hibitions, and of those who prefer the comparative privacy and 

 quiet of tlie Gardens. It is impossible to satisfy both, and the 

 attemi>t of the Council in former years to take a middle course 

 proved, as usually happens in such cases, perfectly satisfactory 

 to neither. Last year they followed a more decided course, and 



accepting the International Exhibition as an accomplished fact, 

 they thought it for the interest of the Society that the two 

 estabhshments should work harmoniously together, and accord- 

 ingly entered into the arrangements with the Commissioners 

 with which the Fellows are famiUar, by which each Fellow 

 obtained free access to the Exhibition as well as to the Gardens. 

 This, hke the arrangement of the previous year, has proved suc- 

 cessful financially, and the Council beUeve that, on the whole, 

 it has given satisfaction to the majority, although they are 

 aware that a valued portion of the Fellows would have pre- 

 ferred to have the Garden and Society kept distinct from the 

 Exhibition. The Council, looking to the position of matters 

 and the necessity of circumstances, are satisfied that their pohcy 

 in this respect was wise and ought to be persisted in. * They 

 accordingly havs done their best to make arrangements with 

 Her Majesty's Commissioners for the present year, and they are 

 now engaged in a negotiation which they hope to bring to a 

 successful issue in time for this year's working. 



2. The Provincial Show at Bkmingham last summer proved 

 an unquahfied success, notwithstanding that the weather was 

 as unpropitious as ever marred the splendour and success of 

 the Shows at Chiswick. The nett proceeds left to the credit of 

 the Society a suni of jt'lOJO, after handing over to the local 

 estabhshment a similar sum as their well-deserved share of the 

 amount reaUsed. It has been decided to hold next year's Show 

 at Bath, from which the Council receive every assurance that a 

 satisfactory result will be attained. 



3. For the details of last year's receipts and expenditure the 

 Council refer to the accounts annexed, nothing hi them appear- 

 ing to invite special comment on the part of the Council. 



4. The style in which the Gardens both at South Kensington 

 and Chiswick have been maintained, and the manner in which 

 the functions of the various Committees and the duties of the 

 ofiicerB of the Society have been performed, has, it is trusted, 

 been such as to merit the approval of the Society, as they have 

 that of the Council. 



5. The Council append the Report from the Horticultural 

 Directors (see page 138) and the Professor of Botany. 



The Chaibman. — In order to give an opportunity to any Fellow 

 to express his opinion, I will now move that the Eeport be 

 adopted. 



Mr. W. Wilson Saundees. — Allow me to second the motion, 

 and to bring before the Meeting the fact that an important 

 document has been placed in the hands of the Chairman, which 

 will be read to you. 



The CHAmjiAN. — I wish to state that the Council of the Society 

 has this morning received a most important letter from the 

 Commissioners of the Exhibition of 1851, which deals with all 

 the questions hitherto debated or discussed between those two 

 bodies ; and I am siu-e the Fellows will feel it was impossible 

 for us, having only received the letter this morning, to givo 

 matured advice as to receiving it as a whole or a part of any 

 business for the future ; but, on the contrary, we wish to tak« 

 the Fellows further into our confidence [bear, hear]. I will 

 ask the Assistant Secretary to read the letter, and I hope the 

 Fellows will be tender upon a documeut which shows great con- 

 sideration for our Society, and concerning which the Council 

 has not as yet had time to have the details. 



The Assistant Secbetaby read the letter, as foUows : — 



G, Kensington Gore, February 8th, 1873. 

 Sm, — Having oommunicated to the Committee of Management of Her 

 Majesty's Comminbioners the results of the lengthened consideration which 

 has been given by the Council of the Itoyal Horticultural Society to the means 

 of bringing about a closer union of the interests of the Commissioners and 

 the Society, I am now directed by the Committee of Management to submit 

 for the consideration of the Council the following propositions ; — 



1. The Society to admit to the portions of tbe estate leased to them, and 

 to the Flower Shows at Kensington, all the Tjsitors to the Exhibition, except- 

 ing on Sundays, and the Commissioners to have th« use of the arcades for 

 exhibition purposes, as in 1H72, but arrangements to be made, when necessary, 

 to accommodate the Society's Shows in the arcades. 



2. The Fellows of the Society now on the books to be entitled to one non- 

 transferable ticket of admission to the Exliibition and Gardens for each guinea 

 that they pay to the Society. Life Fellows now on the books to have corre- 

 sponding pri\-ileges. Debenture-holders to have one season ticket for the 

 Exhibition. 



a. The annual subscription to the Society ond for Exhibition season tickets 

 to be the same, and only to be altered by mutual consent. 



4. The receipts from the Exhibition and Gardens on every WedBOsday 

 during the Exhibition to be equally divided between the Commissioners and 

 the Society. On the other days of the week the receipts from the Exhibition 

 and Gardens to be the property of the Commissioners. 



5. The Commissioners to undertake the efficient and proper maintenance of 

 the conservatory and gardens at Kensington, and bear the cost of repairs, 

 rates, and taxes of the whole of the buildings and grounds leased by the Com- 

 missioners to the Society. 



G. The Society to pay to the Commissioners one-half of the total sum ro- 

 •eived by it for yearly-paying Fellows' tickets, and the Commissioners to pay 

 to the Society one-half of their total receipts for season tickets, so long as the . 

 total amount' received by the Commissioners on account of Exhibition seosou 

 tickets does not exceed XiOOO. Beyond this all the subscriptions received by 

 the Commissioners for season tickets to be the property of the Commissioners. 



7. The Commissioners to pay to the Society annually the sum of £4400, of 

 which £2000 is to be appropriated to the formation of an accumulating re- 

 demption fund, for the extinction of the debentui-e debt, and the remainder 



