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of the exhibitor or his employees, and on this point the Council may 

 consult any expert not competing for the Cup. 



The attention of intending exhibitors is particularly directed to the 

 Society's 191 1 Code of " Rules for Judging." 



21. INSPECTION OF GROWING DAHLIAS. 



In order to assist in the adjudication of the Cory Cup award (see 

 paragraph 20) it has been suggested to the Council that the Judges 

 should inspect a very large collection of Decorative Garden Dahlias 

 which will be growing in Mr. Reginald Cory's Garden at Cardiff, where 

 the habit of the respective plants can be observed, and their true value 

 from the point of view of garden decoration can be determined. Three 

 Judges of the R.H.S. Floral Committee are accordingly co-operating 

 with three Judges of the National Dahlia Society, with the Chairman 

 of the Floral Committee as President, and a visit to Mr. Cory's Garden 

 will be made in the week preceding the date of the competition for the 

 Cup. The object of this inspection of the growing plants is to prevent 

 the Judges for the Cup being misled as to a plant's value as a Decora- 

 tive Garden Plant, by blooms however intrinsically beautiful, but 

 gathered from a plant of little value as a Decorative Garden Plant. 



22. INFORMATION. 



Fellows may obtain information and advice from the Society as to 

 the names of flowers and fruit, on points of practice, insect and fungoid 

 attacks, and other questions, by applying to the Secretary, R.H.S., 

 Vincent Square, Westminster, S.W. Where at all practicable it is 

 particularly requested that letters and specimens may be timed to reach 

 Vincent Square by the first post on the mornings of the Fortnightly 

 Meetings, so as to be laid before the Scientific or other Committees at 

 once. 



23. INSPECTION OF FELLOWS' GARDENS. 



The Inspection of Gardens belonging to Fellows is conducted by a 

 thoroughly competent Inspector from the Society, who reports and 

 advises at the following cost — viz. a fee of £3 3s. for one day (or £5 5s. 

 for two consecutive days) , together with all out-of-pocket expenses. No 

 inspection may occupy more than two days, save by special arrange- 

 ment. Fellows wishing for the services of an Inspector are requested 

 to give at least a week's notice and choice of two or three days, and to 

 indicate the most convenient railway station and its distance from 

 their Gardens. Gardens can only be inspected at the written request 

 of the owner. 



24. AFFILIATION OF LOCAL SOCIETIES. 



One of the most successful of the many new branches of work under- 

 taken since the reconstruction of the Society in 18S7 is the unification of 

 local Horticultural Societies by a scheme of affiliation to the R.H.S. 



