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PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
Cresswell, Hon. Chas. Ellis, W. Gibson, R. C. Carr Gregg, S. R. 
Hay, W. T. Hender, Mrs. Hope, John Hughes, Capt. Julian, 
Forbes Laurie, H. E. Milner, Lady Mountstephen, Mrs. Oliver, 
Stephen Osborn, C. Wray Palliser, Chas. J. Poston, Jas. Preece, 
H. Ramsbotham, Gustav Reuthe, Hy. Rose, Jno. Sandars, Rev. 
M. J. Sutton, Walter B. Tubbs, John Gould Veitch, H. Wartmann, 
Chas. G. Watkins, Chas. Mills, M.R.C.S. 
Societies affiliated (3). — Haslemere Cottage Gardeners' Horti- 
cultural Society ; Leighton Buzzard Horticultural Society ; 
Reigate Borough Cottage Gardeners' Horticultural Society. 
Messrs. J. Cheal and H. Turner were appointed Scrutineers 
of the ballot. 
Mr. McLachlan proposed, and Mr. Harry Veitch seconded, a 
hearty vote of thanks to the Members of the Council who were 
retiring under the operation of the Bye-laws, viz. : The Right 
Hon. Lord Annesley, the Hon. Walter Rothschild, and CI- , J. 
Lucas, Esq. 
To fill the vacancies thus caused on the Council ' .oV wing 
gentlemen were proposed for election, viz. : Sydney Courtauld, 
Esq., Thomas Statter, Esq., and Henry WiUiams, Esq. 
The following gentlemen were proposed for re-election as 
officers, viz.: President— f^ir Trevor Lawrence, Bart.; Treasurer — 
Phihp Crowley, Esq., F.L.S. ; Secretanj—The Rev. W. Wilks, 
M.A. ; Auditors — Messrs. Harry Turner, A. H. Pearson, and 
James H. Veitch. 
After a careful examination of the ballot papers, the Scruti- 
neers reported the above-named gentlemen to be all duly elected. 
The Chairman, in moving the adoption of the Report with 
the Financial Statement and Balance-sheet, referred briefly to 
several of the matters contained therein, and said that the 
Council were again in the position of having to ask exhibitors to 
allow their plants to remain three days at the show held in the 
Temple Gardens. The third day on the last occasion brought a 
very considerable amount of money to tlic Society. This show 
had bncome more and more popular. At tlie first show, held in 
1887, the amount taken wa:: ,L'278, and in 1891 the sum was 
£1,028. 
Reference was made to the; show of British fruits, held in 
September, 1891, at the Crystal Palace. It had been a success, 
aii'l, at the invitation of the Crystal Palace Company, the cxhi- 
