11 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



A. Bateman, Duke of Bedford, Arthur Boulton, A. E. Brooke- 

 Hunt, Kev. G. R. Browne, Mrs. F. Caddy, Charles Clark, Wilson 

 Crewdson, W. H. Davis, Seymour Deadman, R. W. Green, Sir 

 R. Gresley, Frank Herring, George Hodgson, E. D. Hoyland, 

 W. S. lies, C. E. Keyser, L. E. Lambourn, H. Langston, F.Lee, 

 Sir A. Moncrieff, Mrs. Nisbet, A. W. P. Pike, Miss Fanny A. 

 Piril, H. Pitt, C. B. Powell, Walter Price, F. Randolf-Symmons, 

 E. J. Sanger, E. C. Sharpin, H. W. Simmons, H. Staples, David 

 Tod, Arthur Veitch, Sir Edmund Verney, J. C. Waltham, C. E. 

 West, Mrs. H. S. Witham. 



Associates (4).— D. R. Carter, W. H. Morter, Z. Novik, and 

 W. Peters. 



Messrs. Harry Turner and Joseph Cheal were appointed 

 Scrutineers of the ballot. 



A hearty vote of thanks, proposed by Mr. Owen Thomas, 

 and seconded by Mr. H. Turner, was accorded to the retiring 

 members of the Council, viz. : — Sir Alexander J. Arbuthnot, 

 K.C.S.I., George Bunyard, Esq., and H. J. Pearson, Esq. 



To fill the vacancies thus caused, the following gentlemen 

 were proposed, viz. : — Norman C. Cookson, Esq., William 

 Marshall, Esq., and H. J. Veitch, Esq. 



The Scrutineers declared these gentlemen to be duly elected 

 members of the Council. 



The President, in moving the adoption of the Report and 

 Balance-sheet, which had been circulated among the Fellows of 

 the Society in January, referred to the new entrance which had 

 been erected at Chiswick Gardens during the past year, and also 

 to the new houses which had superseded the two oldest struc- 

 tures in the Gardens. 



He pointed out that it was just ten years since the Society 

 had moved from South Kensington, and there was no reason 

 whatever to regret the change considering the present sound 

 financial position of the Society and the definite horticultural 

 work which had since been accomplished. 



Attention was called to the new departure of sending deputa- 

 tions to some of the large provincial shows, and the President 

 regarded it as a sign of the cordial relations existing between 

 the Society and horticulturists throughout the kingdom. 



Special mention was made of the donors of fruit trees to 

 Chiswick in the preceding autumn, and reference was also made 



