xii PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



1 ( J. Colonial Fruit Shows.— The two Colonial Fruit Shows held 

 in June and November were most satisfactory, and the Council have 

 from time to time received many expressions of thanks and of the debt 

 of gratitude which the Colonies owe to the Society for them. They have 

 also received many assurances of the encouraging stimulus these Shows 

 and the Society's Awards have given to fruit growers in the Colonies. 

 This year the number and size of the exhibits have increased, and the 

 Judges, at the November Show in particular, pronounced the fruit to be 

 the best hitherto imported to England for excellence in quality, colour, 

 and packing. Similar Shows are to be held on March 5 and 6, June 11 

 and 12, and November 26 and 27 in the coming year. The Council hope 

 that the Fellows will take a more active interest in these exhibitions, as 

 they are organised at considerable trouble, and, as a matter of experience, 

 visitors never fail to be interested and pleased with the immense variety 

 of fruits illustrative of the resources of Britain-over-the-Seas. 



20. Burnham Beeches. — At the request of the Right Hon. the 

 Lord Mayor and the Corporation of the City of London, the Council, 

 on August 20, appointed a small committee, consisting of Mr. F. J. 

 Chittenden, Mr. Harry J. Veitch, V.M.H., Mr. A. D. Webster, and the 

 Rev. W. Wilks, M.A., to examine and report upon the condition of the 

 trees at Burnham Beeches. The Committee devoted considerable attention 

 to the matter, and towards the end of September issued their report to 

 the Corporation. (See Journal, vol. xxxiii. p. 557.) A letter of thanks 

 has since been received from the Right Hon. Sir James Bell, the Lord 

 Mayor. 



21. Deputations. — The Council have with much pleasure received 

 and accepted invitations to send deputations to the Cornwall Spring 

 Flower Society on April 7, 1908 ; to the Jubilee Meeting of the Yorkshire 

 Floral Society on June 16, 1908 ; and to the Durham, Northumberland, 

 and Newcastle-upon-Tyne Society's Show on July 1, 1908. 



22. Kindred Society Shows. — Many Fellows having expressed 

 their disappointment at being excluded (except on payment) from the 

 Flower Shows held in the Hall by Special Societies, the Council have 

 this year made it a stipulation that all Special-flower Societies taking 

 advantage, as such, of the specially reduced terms for the use of the Hall 

 shall admit all our Society's Fellows' Tickets free. 



The following regulations have been issued, and Fellows will see from 

 the announcement on their tickets which Special Societies have accepted 

 the very liberal terms thus offered by the Society. 



(1) If a kindred Society can, by arrangement, fix their Show on a 

 Wednesday or a Thursday following one of the R.H.S. Fortnightly 

 Shows, then the Kindred Society shall have the gate money and the 

 use of the Hall free of all charge, attendants being provided by the 

 kindred Society, and free admission given to all holders of R.H.S. 

 Tickets. 



(2) A kindred Society unable to adopt such Wednesday or Thursday 

 shall have the use of the Hall for 15 for the day, G a.m. to 6 p.m., the 

 gate money being taken by the kindred Society, who must provide all 



