KEPOllT OF THE COUNCIL FOE THE YEAR 1898-99. V 
On recommendation of 
Award 
At provincia 
shows 
Affiliated 
societies 
Fruit 
committee 
Floral 
committee 
Orclii.l 
committee 
Narcissus 
committee 
Total 
Gold Medal . 
1 
5 
5 
3 
— 
14 
Hilver-gilt Flora 
o 
32 
7 
42 
.Silver-gilt Knightian 
— 
16 
— 
16 
Silver-gilt Banksian 
1 
5 
34 
40 
Silver Flora 
4 
14 
70 
12 
5 
105 
Silver Knightian 
22 
23 
Silver Banksian 
(j 
26 
28 
74 
28 
o 
O 
165 
Bronze Flora . 
1 
8 
6 
15 
J.->LUll/<t; XVlil^li Lldli . 
l)ronze Banksian 
22 
5 
12 
5 
1 

45 
First-class (Jertiticato 
1 
11 
26 
31 
4 
73 
Award of Merit 
49 
167 
68 
8 
292 
Botanical Certificate 
3 
16 
19 
Cultural Commendation . 
32 
23 
z 
58 
Total . 
17 
70 
173 
432 
193 
21 
906 
In addition to the above : — 1 Silver-gilt Flora has been awarded to Miss 0. 
Harrisson for having passed 1st in the Society's Examination, and 4 Hogg Memorial 
Medals have been awarded ; 85 Bronze Banksian Medals have also been granted to 
Cottagers' Societies. 
The Council are fully aware (as all Fellows visiting the Drill Hall 
Shows must also be) how very meritorious the Groups of Flowers, Fruits, 
Vegetables, &c., are, and how oroughly, as a rule, they deserve the 
Medals recommended by the Committees. The Council entirely recognise 
the difficulty of the work of the Committees in decreasing the number of 
Medals they recommend. At the same time they feel it their duty to 
urge upon all the Committees, and upon the individual Members thereof, 
tne necessity of gradually but continually raising the standard of excellence 
which they set before themselves in recommending awards. 
Another point which the Council desire to suggest to the Committees 
is whether Groups exhibited by the Horticultural Trade and Groups 
exhibited from Amateurs' gardens should be judged by exactly the same 
standard of excellence. Whether (except in cases of open competition 
for prizes) some slight favour should not be shown to encourage the 
latter. 
During the past year the Society has been presented with the dies of 
a very fine Medal, which has been struck, and subscribed for by numerous 
friends, in memory of the late Dr. Kobert Hogg. The Council have 
decided to restrict the use of this Medal to the Fruit and Vegetable Com- 
mittee, with which Committee Dr. Hogg was so intimately and specially 
connected from its very foundation in 1858. 
On Tuesday, July 5, the Council invited all the Members of the 
several Committees to lunch with them at Chiswick, and to examine the 
Gardens. An account of the proceedings will be found in the Journal, 
vol. xxii. p. 237. 
An International Conference on Hybridisation has been arranged for 
July 11 and 12, 1899, to commence with a luncheon at Chiswick, to 
