Cclxxxiv PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



37. DISBUDDING OF ORCHIDS. 



At the request of the Orchid Committee the Council have made a 

 rule that " Awards will not be given to any Orchids of which the 

 natural size and character of the flowers have, in the opinion of the 

 Orchid Committee, been in any way changed or improved through 

 the removal of a bud or buds, or part of the spike." 



38. DISBUDDING CHRYSANTHEMUMS. 



When single-flowered Chrysanthemum plants are submitted for 

 certificate one plant must be shown without any disbudding whatso- 

 ever, and one plant somewhat disbudded, in order that the quality of 

 the blooms on the undisbudded stems may be compared with those on 

 the disbudded stems. 



39. ADVERTISEMENTS. 



Fellows are reminded that the more they can place their orders with 

 those who advertise in the Society's Publications the more likely others 

 are to advertise also, and in this way the Society may be indirectly 

 benefited. 



40. SHIRLEY POPPIES. 



For the first time for many years the Rev. W. Wilks is unable 

 to offer Poppy seed. He sowed three times last spring, and three 

 times the army of little black slugs ate all the seedlings up. A dozen 

 or two seeds, at the bottom of a bag, sown under glass in the summer, 

 have alone enabled him to secure seed for his own sowing this year. 



