REPORT OF THE COUNCIL FOR THE YEAR 1901. vii 



18. It is proposed to hold a similar examination in 1902, on 

 Wednesday, April 23. Candidates wishing to enter for the Examination 

 should make application during February to the Secretary, E.H.S. Office, 

 117 Victoria Street, Westminster. In 1903 and following years it has 

 been suggested that this examination should take place at the end 

 of February, before work in the gardens is so onerous as it must be 

 in April. It is thought that this will be a convenience to many 

 young gardeners who cannot otherwise be well spared to attend the 

 Examination. 



19. Valuable books have been presented to the Society during the past 

 year by the Director of the Royal Gardens at Kew, Dr. Maxwell Masters, 

 F.R.S., the Rev. Professor Henslow, V.M.H., Dr. Cooke, M.A., Mr. James 

 Douglas, V.M.H., Mr. F. Sander, V.M.H., and others, to all of whom the 

 best thanks of the Society are due. A full list will be published in March, 

 1902, in the Society's Journal, Vol. XXVI., Part 4. The Council desire 

 to draw the attention of Fellows possessing horticultural or botanical 

 books to the admirable method adopted in the year 1900 by Mr. Elwes, 

 F.R.S., V.M.H., for enriching the Society's Library without at the same 

 time unduly depleting his own. It is fully explained on page 338 of 

 Vol. XXIII. of the Society's Journal. 



20. The thanks of the Society are due to all the Members of the Stand- 

 ing Committees — viz. the Scientific, the Fruit and Vegetable, the Floral, 

 the Orchid, and the Narcissus Committees — for the kind, patient, and often 

 laborious attention which they have severally given to their departments. 

 Many of the members of these Committees have to travel long distances 

 to attend them. The thanks of the Society are especially due to all who 

 are so good as to serve under these conditions. 



21. In response to a very general feeling, the Council have decided 

 that when the proposal of an Award has been made at any of the five 

 standing Committees of the Society it shall not be considered as " carried " 

 unless the number of votes recorded for the proposal be at least double the 

 number voting against it. 



22. In view of the extended cultivation of old-fashioned Tulips, and at 

 the request of several prominent growers, it has been decided to relieve 

 the already overburdened Floral Committee of the duty of considering 

 these flowers, and to transfer it to the Narcissus Committee, which will in 

 future be known as the Narcissus and Tulip Committee. Should, how- 

 ever, such Tulips be exhibited at any date when this Committee is not 

 sitting, the Floral Committee will be requested to take them in hand. 



23. The Society has also to thank all those who have so kindly pre- 

 sented plants or seeds to the Gardens. A list of the donors has been 

 prepared, and will be included in the next issue of the Society's Journal. 



24. The Council wish to express, in their own name and in that of the 

 Fellows of the Society, their great indebtedness to all who have contributed , 

 either by the exhibition of plants, fruits, flowers, or vegetables, or by 

 lectures or papers, to the success of the fortnightly Meetings in the Drill 

 Hall. They are glad to find by the increased and increasing number of 

 visitors that the Society's fortnightly Meetings are now fully appreciated 

 by the Fellows and public in general. 



25. The Lectures given at the Society's Meetings during the past 



