52 EEPOET OF THE FLORAL COMMITTEE. 



V. The business of the Meetings shall be transacted in the 

 manner and order following : — 1 . Minutes of previous Meeting 

 read and confirmed ; 2. Letters addressed to Chairman or Secre- 

 tary, including notices of motion, read ; 3. Motions of which 

 notice has been given at a previous Meeting, considered; 4. 

 New plants and flowers examined, and reported on. 



VI. All persons, whether Fellows of the Society or not, are 

 invited to send their 



A report containing an announcement of the awards 

 several Meetings, to be sent to the respective exhibi 

 as it appears in the Society's " Proceedings." 



VII. All subjects for the consideration of t 

 to be delivered free at the place of meeting, not later than I p.m. 

 on the respective meeting days; and all necessary particulars 

 respecting them are to be forthwith communicated, in writing, to 

 the Secretary. 



Note. — The name and post address of the exhibitor ; the name 

 of the flower if a seedling; and that of the native country if an 

 importation, will be considered essential particulars. Exhibitors 

 are invited to communicate such further details of the origin or 

 introduction or peculiarities of their plants or flowers as they 

 may think interesting for publication. 



VIII. The merits of the subjects exhibited shall not be dis- 

 cussed or decided on in the presence of the owners, or interested 

 exhibitors thereof. 



IX. Sufficient examples of every subject exhibited, to enable 

 the Committee to form a fair opinion of its qualities, are to be 

 produced. In all practicable cases, the growing plant will be 

 required. 



X. The subjects of exhibition will be entered by the Secretary 

 in the order in which the particulars mentioned under Rule VII. 

 are furnished to him, and they will be examined by the Com- 

 mittee in the same order. Each kind will have to be separately 

 numbered ; and all seeding flowers must be named, as a means 

 of future recognition. If not named, they will be passed over. 



XI. Newly imported or other new species of plants, not florists' 

 varieties, will have to be submitted to the botanical advisers of 

 the Committee, that they may be correctly named. Exhibitors 

 of this class of plants will greatly facilitate the operations of the 

 Committee by forwarding, whenever practicable, previous to the 

 day of meeting, materials for this purpose ; such materials to be 

 sent to the Society's rooms, addressed to " The Botanical Advisers 



