Decbmbeb 22, 1888.] 



THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE. 



733 



since Mr. Baker's edition of the Synopsis FUicum. 

 Dr. Yates will receive assistance from Mr. Baker. 



The National Dahlia Show.— The usual 

 annual meeting of the supporters of this exhibition 

 took place, hv kind permission, at the Horticultural 



£114 10s. 6d., including £103 10s. paid as prize 

 money ; and the balance was made up by a pro rata 

 deduction from the prize money of the trade exhi- 

 bitors in accordance with the provisions of Rule 10. 

 The accounts were duly passed. A conversation 

 then took place on the advisability of forming a per- 



amount of money as last year towards the com- 

 pilation of a prize schedule, and also supply as 

 heretofore cards, the necessary staging, take the 

 entries, and print the schedule of prizes. This offer 

 was accepted, with hearty thanks to the Crystal 

 Palace authorities ; and the first Fridav and Satur- 



Fio. 103. — passion-flower : woodhatch hybrid. 



Club, Hotel Windsor, Victoria Street, Westminster, 

 on the 14th inst., Mr. Harry Turner in the chair, 

 present also -\!essrs. E. Mawley, T. W. Girdlestone, 

 W. H. Williams, J. Burrell, George Harris, A. 

 Rawlings, R. Dean, J. T. West, and H. Glasscock, 

 Hon. Secretary and Treasurer. The balance-sheet 

 showed subscriptions for the past year, amounting to 

 £59 10s. 6f?.,and the usual gift of £50 from the Crystal 

 Palace Company. The expenditure amounted to 



manent society, with proper rules and regulations 

 and a properly constituted executive. It was thought 

 that if this step were taken, several of the exhibitors 

 who do not now subscribe to the prize fund might be 

 induced to do so. Eventually the matter was left in 

 the hands of the committee. Mr. H. Glasscock re- 

 ported that he had received from Mr. W. G. Head, on 

 behalf of the Crystal Palace Company, a communica- 

 tion to the effect that the Directors would give the same 



day in September were named as the most suitable 

 days for the show in 1880, subject to the approval of 

 the Manager of the Crystal Palace. It waj resolved 

 that for the future the mdges should be selected 

 from the exhibitors, the amateurs to judge the 

 traders' flowers, and vice versa ; the luncheon to the 

 judges to be discontinued"as a charge upon the 

 balance-sheet. The schedule of prizes as offered last 

 year was passed as that for the show in September 



