iv PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
Secretary (Mr. J. Weathers), and Mr. A. F. Barron were men- 
tioned as deserving of the Society's thanks for tlie earnest manner 
in which they had attended to the interests of the Society on all 
occasions. 
Mr. Parker, in seconding the adoption of the Report, thanked 
the Council for the effort they had made to draw up a code of 
rules for judges. He thought that the Council should increase 
the advantages that were available to members of the Society 
who resided at a distance from headquarters, and were unable to 
attend the meetings, or to visit Chiswick. He welcomed the 
concession that had been made to those living more than 35 miles 
distant, in regard to the distribution of plants, and urged that 
a similar concession in regard to seeds might be made. He re- 
gretted that the distribution of cuttings had fallen out of the 
list of advantages held out to members living at a distance. In 
reference to the Journal, he welcomed the promise of the Presi- 
dent that it would be well kept up, and urged that it should be 
issued more regularly and frequently. 
Mr. Ranger Johnson criticised the amount paid for printing 
as being more than the Society could afford. Some other 
members expressed dissent from the proposal to curtail the 
Journal. 
Mr. P. C. M. Veitch, Exeter, suggested that the work done 
at Chiswick by the Visiting Committees should be embodied in 
the reports of the Committee's work at the Drill Hall. The 
members were not sufficiently alive to the value of the work 
done at Chiswick, and were ignorant in many instances as to 
what was done there. 
Mr. W. Marshall (Chairman of the Floral Committee) 
thought that Mr. Veitch's suggestion was a good one. He re- 
gretted that there was to be no show at Chiswick this year.* 
The Gardens were looking well, a large amount of money had 
been spent in restoring the houses, and he thought that, although 
the sliows there were financial failures, it would be well to 
continue them. 
The Prehidhnt, before putting the Report to the vote, re- 
marlvcd that in r(!gard to the distribution of seeds the Council 
* 'I'lieie will be a spncial show of Biitish-giowii Vegetables at Chiswick 
Gardens on Sepleiiihcr 10, 1805. t 
