8 MONTHLY SUMMARY, 



April 9. x\zaleas, Ebododenclrons, Cinerarias, and Forced 

 Flowers. 



June 26. Rose Show. 



September 10. Autumnal Show — Eoses, Hollyhocks, Asters, 

 Gladioluses, Phloxes, Dahlias, &c. 



A February show of Hyacinths and other forced flowers was 

 intended to have been held, but has been abandoned, or rather 

 amalgamated with the March show, in consequence of the death 

 of H.R.H. the President, — it being felt indecorous to commence 

 the shows so soon as within two months of his death. The 

 great floral exhibitions have been fixed for the ^Ist of May, the 

 llth of June, and the 9ud of July. 



A new feature in this Society's exhibitions, and one called out 

 by the Great International Exhibition, is au international fruit 

 and vegetable show, where fruit, roots — both garden and agricul- 

 tural — vegetables, gourds, and cereals, are all to be exhibited. 

 Some of the leading members of the Pioyal Agricultural Society 

 have been consulted as to whether this would be considered by 

 them an encroachment on their province, and they have assured 

 the Council that they do not look upon it in this light. 

 Indeed, considering the special circumstances of the case, and 

 that the shows of the Agricultural Society take place in June and 

 December, there would be no good reason for their objecting to the 

 Society's trenching a little for the moment upon their territory. 



One of the most curious features in this show (which will con- 

 tinue for ten days) will undoubtedly be the pumpkins, or gourds. 

 We are not accustomed to see the immense products of this kind 

 which are grown on the Continent, and a fine display of tliem 

 will form an interesting sight. 



It is not proposed to hold any Chrysanthemum or other 

 November show in 1862. Loudon will have been sated with 

 sight-seeing by the time the International Exhibition comes 

 to a close ; and it is therefore proposed to terminate the Society's 

 public Exhibitions for the your at the same time as the Inter- 

 national Exhibition. 



