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The above Medals will only be awarded should the exhibits be con- 
sidered sufficiently meritorious, and the result of intentional, not 
accidental, cross-fertilisation. 
Exhibitors must give Fruit details in writing as to parentage, and 
record any other points which may assist the Judges. 
11. A Williams Memorial Medal to the best collection of Hybrid and 
Cross-bred PuaNnts. 
MEETINGS. 
12 noon. Fruit, Floral, and Orchid Committees meet. 
12.45. The President of the Society, Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., 
V.M.H., will receive the invited Members of the Conference. 
1 P.M. Luncheon. 
2.15 p.m. Conference on Hybridisation and Cross-breeding. 
5.0 P.M. Conference adjourns. 
6.0 for 6.30 p.m. The Foreign Members of the Conference will be 
entertained at dinner on the kind invitation of the Horti- 
cultural Club, under the presidency of Sir John D. T. 
' Llewelyn, Bart., M.P., at the Hotel Windsor, Victoria 
Street. Morning Dress. 
WEDNESDAY, Juty 12TH (Westminster Town Hatz). 
MEETINGS. 
2.0 p.m, Conference continued at Westminster Town Hall. 
5.0 p.m. Conference concludes. 
6.30 p.m. Reception of Guests by the President of the Society and 
( Lady Lawrence at the Whitehall Rooms, Hotel 
| Métropole. 
7.0 p.m. Banquet of the Society. Evening Dress. All Fellows can, 
as far as space will permit, obtain tickets (price 21s. 
each) for ladies or gentlemen, by applying (with cheque 
or postal order) to the Secretary, 117 Victoria Street, 
before July 5th. 
The following arrangements are subject to alteration :— 
TUESDAY, Juty 117TH, at CuHiswick, at 2.15 p.m. 
1. Introductory observations. 
Maxwell Masters, M.D., F.R.S., London, Chairman. 
2. Hybridisation and Cross-breeding asa Method of Scientific In- 
vestigation. 
W. Bateson, Esq., M.A., F. R.S., Cambridge University. 
3. Hybridisation as a means af Pingenetic Infection. 
Professor Hugo de Vries, Amsterdam University. 
4. Hybridisation and its Failures. 
The Rev. Professor Geo. Henslow, M.A., V.M.H., London. 
5. Progress of Hybridisation in the United States of America. 
Professor L. H. Bailey, Cornell University, Ithaca, U.S.A. 
6. Experiments in Hybridisation and Cross-breeding. 
C. C. Hurst, Esq., F.R.H.S., F.L.S., Burbage, Hinckley. 
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