cxxii PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Messrs. R. Smith & Co., Worcester. Messrs. J. Waterer & Sons, Ltd., 

 Messrs. W. Spooner & Sons, Bagshot. 



Hounslow. Messrs. James Veitch & Sons, Ltd., 



Mr. Anthony Waterer, Knap Hill, King's Road, Chelsea. 



Woking. 



11. DISTRIBUTION OF PLANTS. 



Fellows are particularly requested to note that a list to choose from 

 of all the plants available for distribution is sent in January every year 

 to every Fellow, enclosed in the " Report of the Council." The ballot 

 for order of being served will be made on March 1, and the distribution 

 proceeded with as quickly as possible. Fellows having omitted to fill 

 up their application form before April 30 must be content to wait till the 

 next distribution. The work of the Gardens cannot be disorganised by 

 the sending out of plants at any later time in the year. All Fellows can 

 participate in the Annual Distribution folloioing their election. 



With regard to the distribution, Fellows are particularly requested 

 to remember, in justice to the Superintendent of the Gardens, the great 

 disability under which he is labouring this year. The Gardens at Chis- 

 wick were closed in May, and although one foreman was installed at 

 Wisley in June, the Superintendent could not himself get into his house 

 there till December. Fellows who have any idea of the labour and 

 anxiety of propagating plants by the thousand will make due allowance 

 for this. 



Plants cannot be sent to Fellows residing outside the United King- 

 dom, owing either to length of time in transit or to vexatious regulations 

 in some foreign countries ; but the Council will at any time endeavour to 

 obtain for Fellows living abroad any unusual or rare seeds which they 

 may have been unable to procure in their own country. 



12. POPPY SEED. 



The Secretary will be pleased to send a packet of his 1904 crop of 

 Shirley Poppy Seed to any Fellows who like to send to Rev. W. Wilks, 

 Shirley Vicarage, Croydon, a stamped envelope ready addressed to them- 

 selves. The seed should be sown as early as possible in March. This is 

 an offer made by the Secretary in his private capacity, and it causes 

 much inconvenience when requests for seed are mixed up with letters 

 sent to the office in London, instead of as above directed. One thousand 

 five hundred packets were given away last year. This year the crop of 

 seed is smaller, and only about 1,000 will be available. 



13. THE FINANCIAL POSITION. 



Although the Society may be considered to be in a satisfactory position 

 financially, it must not be forgotten that there is a debt of over £10,000 

 on the Hall Building Fund. We have now 8,250 names on our books, 

 but only 1,300 have given any donation. If every Fellow who could, 

 would double his subscription for two years, the desire of long decades 

 would at last be accomplished and complete. Every Fellow, every 



