CCXXxiv PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 



As on previous occasions, a large number of Silver Cups and Medals 

 will be awarded according to merit. Tbe Veitchian Cup, value 55 

 guineas, will also be awarded on this occasion. 



Fellows of the Society are admitted free on showing their tickets. 

 N.B. — Each Personal Pass is strictly non-transferable, and will admit 

 only the Fellow to whom it belongs, but no one else. Fellows' 

 Transferable Tickets are available for themselves or a friend. The general 

 public are admitted by purchased tickets : — On Tuesday, May 29, from 

 12.30 to 7 p.m., 7s. 6d. On Wednesday, from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m., 2s. 6d. 

 On Thursday, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., Is. 



To avoid the inconvenience of crowding, tickets may be obtained 

 beforehand at the Society's Offices, Vincent Square, Westminster, S.W. 

 The Offices at Westminster will be closed on the days of the Show, and 

 consequently no letters should be addressed there on the previous day. 



On the days of the Show, tickets will only be on sale near the 

 entrance to the Gardens (Thames Embankment Gate). 



Members of Affiliated Societies, and bona fide Gardeners, may obtain 

 2s. Qd. tickets for Is,, which will admit them to the exhibition on 

 Wednesday. Members of Affiliated Societies must apply only through 

 the Secretary of their own Society if they wish to take advantage of this 

 privilege. These tickets can only be obtained on or before May 26 from 

 the Society's Office, Vincent Square, Westminster, S.W., and a large 

 stamped and directed envelope must be sent with Postal Order in every case. 



19. SHOW OF FLORAL DECORATIONS. 



The Council have decided to hold a special Show on June 20, 1906, 

 of " Floral Decorations," including dinner-table decorations, vases, 

 bouquets, baskets, &c, and have arranged special classes for professional 

 decorators and for amateurs, the term amateur including gentlemen's* 

 gardeners and other servants, as well as the ladies and gentlemen 

 themselves (see Arrangements, 1906). In consequence of the space 

 being limited, only a certain number of entries can be accepted, and these 

 must be made on or before June 10, but priority of entry before that 

 date will be advantageous to the exhibitor. 



20. HOLLAND HOUSE SHOW, 1906. 



By the kind permission of the Earl and Countess of Ilchester the 

 Summer Show will be held at Holland House on July 10 and 11, full 

 particulars of which will be published in the "Book of Arrangements," 

 1906. The rules for the Temple Show apply as far as possible to Holland 

 House, but there is sufficient space to allow of a Sundries Tent. 



An arrangement is also in process of being made with the Royal 

 Meteorological Society to organise an Exhibition of Meteorological In- 

 struments, comprising rain-gauges, sunshine-recorders, barometers, ther- 

 mometers, photographs illustrating meteorological phenomena, diagrams 

 illustrating the influence of the weather upon garden and other crops, &c, 

 and also a typical open-air Climatological Station in working order. It is 

 also hoped that Mr. William Marriott, the Assistant Secretary of the 



