VICTORIA MEDAL OF HONOUR. 



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Victoria Medallists who are in any way connected with horti- 

 cultural businesses, viz. : 



"In awarding the Victoria Medal of Honour the Council 

 unanimously laid it down as a rule, from which no departure 

 was under any circumstances permissible, that the distinction 

 was not to be used in any way whatever for purposes of trade or 

 of advertising. 



" The feeling of the Council was that a purely honorary 

 personal distinction, to the establishment of which Her Majesty's 

 gracious consent had been given, would be degraded by any 

 such use." 



December 11, 1897. — The following resolution was passed by 

 the Council and directed to be made public, viz. : 



" In the event of any recipient of the Victoria Medal 

 violating the conditions on which it was bestowed by using it 

 in future for advertising or for the promotion of trade interests 

 in any other way, the name of such offender shall be struck off 

 the list." 



January 11, 1898. — The Council having been consulted as 

 to a proper mode of the use of the Victoria Medal by members 

 of horticultural trades have decided that the only permissible 

 method is by affixing the letters V.M.H. to the name of the 

 holder of the medal. No other mention of the medal can be 

 properly made in any publication pertaining to an horticultural 

 trade or relating ^thereto. 



