( q xxxii PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



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

 participate in the Annual Distribution following their election. 



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. 



14. POPPY SEED. 



The Secretary will be pleased to send a packet of his 1905 crop of 

 Shirley Poppy Seed to any Fellows who like to send to Eev. 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. Two thousand 

 packets were given away last season. This season the crop of seed has 

 suffered terribly from a plague of rats, and only about 1,000 will be 

 available. 



15. THE SOCIETY'S NEW HOME. 



The Royal Horticultural Hall is now occupied by the Society for 

 its Shows, Meetings, Library, and Offices. Vincent Square lies straight 

 through Ashley Gardens from Victoria Street, Westminster, and is about 



Position of the Society's Hall. 



five minutes' walk from the Victoria and St. James's Park Stations. The 

 accommodation for the Shows is double what it was in the old Drill Hall. 

 Che Lectures are delivered in a room specially equipped and devoted to 

 cbal purpose, and the Library is now housed in a manner worthy of the 



