344. THE FLORAL WORLD AND GARDEN GUIDE. 
other season of the year, the amateur will at once see how valuable 
they are. The main points are to take in hand, early in April, 
plants nicely established in three-inch pots, to repot them twice, the 
first shift to be into five-inch pots, and the second to be into eight- 
inch pots, a8 soon as they are thoroughly established. They must 
be stood upon a bed of coal ashes out-of-doors, and stopped at in- 
tervals, the last stopping to be about the middle of August. After 
arriving at this stage, the buds must, until the middle or end of Sep- 
tember, be pinched off as they make their appearance. About the 
middle of the month last mentioned place them indoors, and in a 
warm corner of the greenhouse. 
PROPOSED RECONSTRUCTION OF THE ROYAL 
HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
BY LORD ALFRED CHURCHILL. 
“SHE question of reconstructing the Royal Horticultural 
fi Society is beginning to attract attention. It is high 
time that it should do so,and that some definite scheme 
should be prepared before the annual meeting of the 
= society in February next. If the horticulturists 
throughout the country could only agree upon the principles on 
which this could be best effected, it would materially strengthen the 
hands of the Council in their negotiations with tiie Commissioners. 
It is the belief that the society is past resuscitation that has induced 
the Commissioners to treat it in the cavalier manner they have done 
lately. 
I beg to enclose the outline of a scheme as a basis on which this 
reconstruction could be effected. In doing this, 1 have no wish to 
put it forward as the only one likely to answer; it is solely my own 
idea which I beg to submit for consideration, in conjunction with 
others that may be proposed :— 
. Bye-laws to be altered. 
. Fellowships, £2 2s. No entrance fees. 
. Associates, £1 1s. 
. Gardeners in the employment of Fellows, 10s. 6d. 
. All voting power to be confined to Fellows paying £2 2s. 
. Provincial shows to be encouraged. 
7. Quarterly journal to be published, and supplied gratis to 
Fellows. Associates to pay half-price. 
8. Fellows, Associates, and subscribing gardeners to have free 
admission to Chiswick Gardens, and to all shows, either in the 
provinces or in London, given or promoted by the Royal Horticul- 
tural Society. 
9. Fellows and Associates to have the power of admitting friends 
to Chiswick, either by order or personally. 
10. Provincial Horticultural Societies subscribing to the Royal 
Horticultural Society £5 5s. per annum, to receive two silver and 
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