cii PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



GENERAL MEETING. 

 June 28, 1908. 



Professor N. E. Hansen, of Brookings, S. Dakota, U.S.A., in the Chair. 



Fellows elected (27).— H. C. V. Adams, R. D. Adkins, Mrs. A. Astle, 

 Mrs. Bankes, Miss Blundell, H. C. Blyth, Miss C. H. Bradshaw, Mrs. 

 Muirhead Campbell, Mrs. Cundell, M. Gray, Miss M. Low, E. H. Mackie, 

 C. H. Miller, M.D., Mrs. A. E. Mills, Ronald Peake, T. Pirn, W. H. Poate, 

 A. A. Saltren-Willett, Mrs. Sims, Miss C. M. Smith, Mrs. Smithers, N. 

 Spens, Mrs. A. Dunbar Stables, Mrs. F. Summers, W. G. Tarrant, Miss 

 E. Varco Williams, H. S. Lee Wilson. 



Felloivs resident ah wad (3). — F. Hosking (Africa), G. H. Krum- 

 biegel (India), R. Chunder Mukerji (India). 



Societies affiliated (8). — Burghfield and Sulhampstead Horticultural 

 Society ; Pangbourne Horticultural Society ; Woodstock Horticultural 

 Society. 



A lecture on " The Absorption of Rain and Dew by the green parts of 

 Plants " was given by Professor G. Henslow, F.L.S., V.M.H. (see p. 167). 



At this meeting the President and Council received and extended a 

 hearty welcome to about 100 members of the Societe Nationale d'Horti- 

 culture de France. After inspecting the Show, the party was entertained 

 to light refreshments in the lecture-room and an address of welcome was 

 delivered by the President, Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., K.C.V.O., Y.M.H., 

 and responded to by Monsieur Viger the President of the French 

 Society. 



DEPUTATION TO THE NEWCASTLE FLOWER SHOW. 

 July 1, 1908. 



A deputation of the Royal Horticultural Society attended, by invitation, 

 the Annual Flower Show of the Durham, Northumberland and Newcastle- 

 upon-Tyne Botanical and Horticultural Society, held on July 1, 1908, in 

 conjunction with the Royal Agricultural Society's Show at Newcastle. The 

 deputies appointed — viz. the Hon. John Boscawen, and Messrs. H. Hind- 

 marsh, H. B. May, and A. H. Pearson, with the Assistant Secretary — were 

 most kindly and hospitably received by the President of the Newcastle 

 Society (Alderman Sir Joseph Ellis, J. P.), the Chairman (Mr. Councillor 

 Johnstone Wallace), the Vice-Chairman (Alderman John Beattie, J. P.), 

 and the Secretary (Mr. J. Wilfrid Pace), and were entertained at an 

 excellent dinner at Tilley's on the evening of June 30. 



The deputation assembled on the Show ground at 10 o'clock on the 

 morning of July 1, and examined the exhibits. The plants and flowers, 

 Bent by about seventy exhibitors, were arranged in three large tents, the 

 Show being the largest held at Newcastle for several years past. In view 

 of the Royal Agricultural Show being held there, the Flower Show 

 Committee had made a special ell'ort to obtain a representative display 

 of the horticulture of the North of England. A well-merited success 

 ichievod, for the Show will undoubtedly be long remembered as one 

 of i ho prominent floral exhibitions of the year 1908. 



