NOTICES TO FELLOWS. 



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30. UNION OF HORTICULTURAL MUTUAL 

 IMPROVEMENT SOCIETIES. 



This Union has recently been established for the encouragement 

 and assistance of Horticultural Mutual Improvement Societies, the object 

 being to strengthen existing Mutual Improvement Societies, to promote 

 interchange of lecturers, to provide printed lectures, and if possible to 

 increase the number of these useful Societies, and thus generally to 

 advance the aims and objects of horticulture. 



A list of lecturers and their subjects, and also a list of typewritten 

 lectures, with or without lantern slides, prepared by the Society, may be 

 obtained from the Secretary R.H.S., price 3d. 



The Secretary of the Society will be very glad to hear from any 

 competent lecturers who are willing to lecture to such Societies that he 

 may enrol them in the Register of Lecturers and bring them into touch 

 with Societies requiring assistance. Others may like to send to him 

 written lectures (with or without lantern slides), that he may have them 

 printed for circulation among these Societies. 



Lantern slides on horticultural topics are urgently needed, and their 

 gift will be very much appreciated. 



31. CLASSIFICATION OF DAFFODILS. 



At the request of the Daffodil Committee the Council recently 

 appointed a Committee to consider the best way of avoiding the confusion, 

 and consequent disputes, likely to arise from the recent multitudinous 

 crossing, recrossing, and intercrossing of the old Divisions of Magni- 

 fied io- and Parvi-coronati. The Committee have delivered their Report 

 instituting an entirely new system of classification, which the Council 

 have (with slight modifications) adopted and confirmed, and ordered to be 

 used at all the Society's Shows. The Report contains a list of every 

 Daffodil known to the Committee, together with the name of the raiser as 

 far as it could be discovered, each flower known being allotted to its 

 appropriate class. The Report has been printed in a handy book form, 

 and can be obtained from the Society's Office, Vincent Square, at a cost 

 of Is. 



32. COLOUR CHART. 



Hardly a gardener or florist exists who has not at times longed for 

 a Colour Chart — that is to say, for a standard of reference whereby he 

 could himself name, or recognise, or convey to a friend at a distance, the 

 exact shade of colour of a flower he desired to procure or had seen 

 advertised, or wished to commend to a friend. Take, for example, the 

 word " crimson," what a multitude of colours and shades it may be made 

 to include ! Some, very beautiful ; some, horrible concoctions of red and 

 blue crudely combined. 



The Council of the Society have long felt the need of such a Colour 

 Chart, but the huge expense of producing it has hitherto deterred them 

 from issuing it. 



