Xii PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



In conjunction with the Lindley Library Trustees, the 

 Society's Library has received considerable attention. All serial 

 publications have been kept up to date, a large number of untidy 

 but valuable volumes have been bound, and the following books 

 amongst others added to the Library, viz. : — " Annales des 

 Sciences Naturelles," 6 vols. ; " Nuovo Giornale Botanico 

 Italiano," 12 vols. ; " Kevue Horticole ; " " Kohler, Medizinal 

 Pflanzen ; " " Nyman, Conspectus florae Europasse ; " " Pflanzen- 

 Familien;" " Baillon, Diet. Bot. ; " "Archives Nouvelles du 

 Museum d'Histoire Naturelle; " "Icones Plantarum ; " " Amaryl- 

 lideae," &c. 



The best thanks of the Society are due to all those who, either 

 at home or abroad, have so kindly and liberally presented books 

 to the Library or plants or seeds to the Gardens. Special thanks 

 are due to those who have so kindly contributed Perennial Asters 

 and Sunflowers in view of a much-needed Conference on them in 

 October. 



The Council also wish to express, in their own name and 

 in that of all Fellows of the Society, their great indebtedness to 

 all who have so kindly contributed, either by the exhibition of 

 plants, fruits, flowers, or vegetables, or by the reading of 

 papers, to the success of the Conferences and fortnightly 

 Meetings. 



The papers read at these Meetings, most of which have been 

 already published in the Journal,* are as follows : — 



January 14. — "A Method of Winter Gardening," Rev. W. 

 Wilks, M.A. 



March 11. — " Hippeastrums (Amaryllis), Mr. Harry Veitch, 

 F.L.S., and Mr. James Douglas. 



March 25. — " Saladings," Mons. Henry de Vilmorin. 



April 8. — " Spring Flower Gardening," Mr. W. Ingram. 



April 16.— " Daffodils," Professor Michael Foster, Sec. E.S., 

 Mr. C. R. Scrase-Dickins, Mr. T. A. Dorrien- Smith, Bev. A. 

 Rawson, M.A., Herr Krelage, Mr. James Walker, Rev. G. H. 

 Engleheart, M.A., Mr. F. W. Burbidge, F.L.S., Rev. C. Wolley- 

 Dod, M.A., and Rev. W. Wilks, M.A. 



April 22.—" On Primulas," Rev. C. Wolley-Dod, M.A., and 

 Mr. Henwood. 



* Most of the back numbers of the Journal can be purchased at reduced 

 prices, but some are now out of print. 



