ARRANGEMENTS FOR 1861. 



REGULATIONS FOR THE MEETINGS. 



I. The Society will hold Monthly Meetings for adjudicating 

 upon Flowers and Fruits. The meetings to be open to Fellows 

 and Visitors, at the hours specified in Regulation III. 



II. The Floral and Fruit Committees will examine and 

 adjudicate upon all New Fruits, New Plants, and Seedling 

 Flowers submitted at their respective meetings. 



III. The Fellows of the Society and Visitors will be admitted 

 to view the subjects exhibited at 2 p.m., in February, March, 

 November, and December, and at 3 p.m. at the meetings during 

 the remainder of the year. 



IV. The Exhibitors will be admitted at the same hour as the 

 Fellows ; and the plants, &c., may be removed at 4 o'clock. 



Regulations of the Floeal Committee. 



1. The Floral Committee has before it the following objects : 

 To examine, and to report upon the merits of such New Plants 

 and Flowers of all kinds as may be submitted to its judgment, 

 whether (1) imported species, (3) garden varieties intended 

 for decorative purposes, or (8) iiorists' varieties ; including, also, 

 all new plants flowered in the Society's Garden establishments. 



2. These objects the Committee will carry out by holding 

 meetings for the examination of flowers and plants, and by 

 pubhshing its transactions in the " Proceedings " of the Society. 



3. The Committee will meet at the Society's offices at 

 Kensington on the second and foui'th Tuesdays in the months of 

 March, April, May, June, July, August, and September, and on 

 the second Tuesday in the months of February, October, 

 November, and December, unless otherwise appointed. The 

 chair to be taken at 12 noon. 



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

 invited to send New Plants and Flowees for examination. 

 A report of the several Meetings, as printed in the Society's 

 Proceedings," to be sent to the respective Exhibitors. 



5. All subjects for the consideration of the Committee are to 

 be delivered free at the place of meeting, at Kensington, not later 

 than 11 o'clock a.m., on the respective meeting days ; and all 

 necessary particulars respecting them are to be forthwith com- 

 municated, in icriting, to the Secretary. 



Note. — The name and post address of the Exhibitor ; the name of the flower 

 considered essential particulars. Exhibitora^e iviS^to communicate 



