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Regulations of the Floeal Co:mmitxee. 



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

 To examine, and to report upon the merits of New Phmts and 

 Flowers, whether (1) imported species, (2) garden varietiey in- 

 tended for decorative purposes, or (3) florists' varieties ; including, 

 ftlso, all new plants flowered in the Society's establishments. 



3, These objects the Committee will carry out by holding 

 meetings for the examination of such flowers and plants, as may 

 be submitted to its judgmeat, and by publishing its transactions 

 in the *' proceedings " of the Society, 



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

 invited to send New Plakts akd Flow^ees for examination. A 

 report of each Meeting, as printed iu the Society's "Proceed- 

 ings," will be sent to the respective Exhibitors. 



4. All subjects for the consideration of the Committee arc to 

 be delivered free at the place of meeting not later than 11 o'clock 

 A.M.; and all necessary particulars respecting them are to be 

 communicated, in writing, to the Secretary. 



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

 if a seedling; and that of the native country if an importation, will be 

 considered essential particiilars. Exhibitors are invited to communicate 

 in writing such further details of the origin or introdnetion or peculiailiies 

 of their plants or flowers, as they may think interesting for publicatiou. 



5. The merits of the subjects exhibited shall not be discussed 

 or decided on in the presence of the owners, or of persons 

 interested in them. 



6. Examples of every subject exhibited, sufficient to enable 

 the ComiTiittce to form a fair opiniou of its qualities, must be 

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

 requu'ed. Each Ui^id will have to be separately entered. All 

 Seedling Ilowers mmt be named, as a means of future recognition. 

 If not named, they will be passed over. 



Note. — Exhibitors of seedling florists' flowers, and others, will facilitate the 

 woi-king of tlic Committee by the production of specimens and collections of 

 known varieties to serve as refereuceSj and for comparison with new flowers, 



7. Newly imported or other new species of plants, not 

 florists' varieties, Avill have to be submitted to the botanical 

 advisers of the Committee, that they may be correctly named. 



KuXK. — Exhibitors of this class of plants will greatly facilitate the operations 

 of the Committee by forwarding, whenever practicable, previous to the days 

 of meeting, materials for examination, and it will be regarded as an indis- 

 peusable condition of their being examined, that the countries from which 

 they may have been imported Bhall be correctly stated. These materials are 

 to be sent to the Society's offices, addressed to '*The Botanical Advisers 

 of the Floral Committee/' 



