cclxxii PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



SHOW OF COLONIAL-GROWN FRUIT 



WITH 



BRITISH AND FOREIGN PRESERVED OR DRIED FRUITS. 



On December 13 and 14 there will be a Show specially of Fruit 

 grown in British Colonies, but with it will be several classes for 

 Home-grown, Colonial, and Foreign Preserved, Bottled, or Dried Fruits, 

 Jams, &c. The Schedule of Prizes can be obtained at the Society's 

 Office, 117 Victoria Street, by enclosing one penny stamp. 



Fellows' Passes and Transferable Tickets will be admitted at 1 p.m. on 

 the 13th, and at 10 a.m. on the 14th ; the Public from 2 to 7 p.m. on 

 the 13th on payment of 2s. 6d., after 7 p.m. Is. ; and at 10 a.m. on the 

 14th on payment of Is. The Show will remain open till 10 p.m. on 

 both days. 



As the object of the Exhibition is to prove what grand Fruits can 

 be had without going outside the Greater Britain, it is hoped the 

 growers of Fruits in the Colonies will all endeavour to send of their best. 

 Fruit intended for this Show can, if necessary, be consigned to the 

 Secretary, Royal Horticultural Hall, Vincent Square, London, S.W., when 

 it will be stored in the vaults under the Hall till December 12, and 

 the Society's officers will stage it. No Fruit sent in this way can be 

 repacked for return. 



All staging must be finished before 4 p.m. on Monday, December 12, 

 as there will be a private Press view at 5 p.m. on that day. Exhibitors 

 must clear their goods away before noon on December 15. 



AFFILIATED SOCIETIES. 



A very pleasant surprise was experienced one raw March morning 

 on opening a letter and finding a cheque for £8 8s. sent as a donation 

 by the Ware and District Horticultural Mutual Improvement Society, 

 the Secretary, Mr. George Gumbrell, writing that it was a donation from 

 his Society towards the Royal Horticultural Hall. It is very delightful 

 to find an Affiliated Society sympathising thus with the old parent Society, 

 and we hope others will be led in this good and helpful way by the example 

 of the Ware and District Society. There is ample need of a similar 

 donation from every one of them. 



ASSISTANT SECRETARY. 



As stated by the President at the Annual Meeting of the Society on 

 February 9 last, the business of the Society has of late years increased so 

 largely that it has become necessary to appoint an Assistant Secretary to 

 help deal with the additional work. The Council therefore unanimously 

 appointed Mr. Tom E. Sedgwick to the pest. 



