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PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



The Council have heard with much pleasure that G. W. 

 Burrows. Esq., a Member of the Court of the Worshipful Com- 

 pany of Gardeners, has most kindly offered, in connection with 

 the Society's 1893 Examination, a Scholarship of £25 a year for 

 two years, full particulars of which will be found in the 

 Society's Arrangements for 1898, lately issued to all Fellows. 

 Another similar Scholarship has been promised for 1S99, by the 

 Et. Hon. the Lord Amherst of Hackney, through the same Wor- 

 shipful Company. 



Acting in conjunction with the Lindley Trustees, the Council 

 have devoted considerable attention to the Library. All serial 

 publications have been kept up to date, a large number of 

 valuable volumes have been bound, and the following new 

 books, amongst others, added to the Library, viz.: — "The 

 Flower Garden of Ornamental Bulbous Plants," Labourers 

 " Monographic de la Famille des Cactees," Sweet's ''Florists' 

 Guide," u The Floral Cabinet and Magazine of Exotic Botany,"' 

 11 The Yew-Trees of Great Britain and Ireland," &e., &c. 



The hearty thanks of the Society are due to all the Members 

 of the Standing Committees, viz. the Scientific, the Fruit and 

 Vegetable, the Floral, the Orchid, and the Narcissus Com- 

 mittees, for the kind and patient attention which they have 

 severally given to their departments. 



A special and very hearty record of thanks is also due to 

 N. X. Sherwood, Esq., and to C. J. Grahame, Esq. The former 

 gentleman has intimated to the Council his intention of placing 

 a Ten Guinea Silver Cup at their disposal annually, and the 

 latter has enabled the Council to very largely increase the prizes 

 offered for Pioses on June 28. 



The best thanks of the Society are also due to all those who, 

 either at home or abroad, have so kindly presented books to the 

 Library or plants or seeds to the Gardens. A list of the donors 

 has been prepared, and will be found in the Society's Journal. 

 vol. xxi., part 3, 1898, which will be issued in March. 



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 so kindly contributed, either by the exhibition of plants, 

 fruits, flowers, or vegetables, or by the reading of 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 



