268 JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Sons, of King's Road, Chelsea, entirely with palms and ferns, with a few 

 exquisite white flowers, thus giving a further sense of coolness to the 

 scene. Handsome gilt chairs were provided for the King and Queen and 

 Princess Victoria, and behind them sat the members of their suite, upon 

 the highest tier of the platform ; and on the tiers below, chairs were pro- 

 vided for his Excellency the Austro- Hungarian Ambassador; his Ex- 

 cellency the Russian Ambassador ; the Rt. Hon. the Home Secretary ; 

 the Rt. Hon. the Earl of Onslow, G.C.M.G., Minister of Agriculture 

 and Horticulture ; the Rt. Hon. the Earl of Ilchester; the Lord Medway ; 

 Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., K.C.V.O., Y.M.H., President of the Society; 

 Lady Lawrence and Miss Lawrence; Baron Schroder, Bart., V.M.H. ; 

 Sir John I )illwyn- Llewelyn, Bart., V.M.H. , Vice-President of the Society; 

 Sir Frederick Wigan, Bart., Vice-President of the Society; Sir William 

 Thiselton-Dyer, F.R.S., K.C.M.G. ; Sir Thomas Hanbury, V.M.H. ; Sir 

 Cecil dementi Smith; Sir Thomas Elliot, K.C.B. ; Sir Alfred Reynolds ; 



Fio. G8. The First Medal struck by the Society, 1811. 



Sir William Treloar : Mr. Burdett-Coutts, M.P. ; Mr. Gerald Loder, M.P. ; 

 the Hon. John Boscawen; Captain George Holford, CLE., C.V.O. ; 

 Major Haggit; Major Hussey ; Mr. Frederick Lloyd, J.P. ; Br. Maxwell 

 Masters, F.R.S. ; the Rev. Professor Henslow, M.A., V.M.H. ; Mr. Harry 

 J. Veitch, F.L.S. ; Mr. Arthur L. Wigan ; Dr. J. Augustus Voelcker, 

 M.A. ; Mr. Edward Mawley, V.M.H. ; Mr. Henry B. May; Mr. Alfred H. 

 Pearson ; Mr. George Bunyard, V.M.H. ; and others. 



The seating arrangements were most admirably made by Messrs. 

 Cowtan, of Oxford Street, so that everybody found his way to his own 

 seat without the smallest difficulty. 



The following was the order of proceedings on this most memorable 

 occasion, which is reproduced exactly (with the exception of the intro- 

 duction of Hi3 Majesty's gracious reply on p. 270) for the information of 

 those who shall have the arrangement of the Society's second centenary 

 gathering in the year 2004. 



