1XXX PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



of plants at any later time in the year. .All Fellows can participate in 

 the annual distribution following their election. 



The Society does not pay the cost of packing and carriage. The 

 charge for this will be collected by the carriers on delivery of the 

 plants, which will be addressed exactly as given by each Fellow on his 

 application form. It is impracticable to send plants by post, owing to 

 the lack of Post Office facilities for despatch without prepayment of 

 postage. 



Fellows residing beyond a radius of thirty-five miles from London 

 are permitted to choose double the number of plants to which they are 

 otherwise entitled. 



Plants cannot be sent to Fellows residing outside the United King- 

 dom, owing either to length of time in transit or to vexatious regulations 

 in some foreign countries ; but the Council will at any time endeavour 

 to obtain for Fellows living abroad any unusual or rare seeds which they 

 may have been unable to procure in their own country. 



No plants will be sent to Fellows whose subscriptions are in arrear, 

 or who do not fill up their forms properly. 



16. TRIALS AT WISLEY. 



The Regulations for the Trials at YVisley have been revised, with 

 a view of improving this important branch of the Society's work. 

 For fuller information concerning them and the list of subjects invited 

 for trial in 1915, 1916, and 1917, see pages 42 and 167, et seq., " Book 

 of Arrangements " for 1915. 



17. EXHIBITIONS, MEETINGS, AND 

 LECTURES, 1915. 



The Programme will be found in the " Book of Arrangements " 

 for 1915. A reminder of every show will be sent in the week pre- 

 ceding to any Fellow who will send to the R.H.S. Offices, Vincent 

 Square, S.W., a sufficient number (34) of halfpenny cards ready 

 addressed to himself. 



18. A NATIONAL DIPLOMA IN HORTI- 

 CULTURE. 



Most gardeners will welcome the initiation by the Society of a 

 scheme whereby a National Diploma in Horticulture may be gained 

 by those who pass the Preliminary and Final Examinations which 

 will be required. The Diploma is thoroughly " National," for 

 by the consent of H.M. Government, the Department of Agri- 

 culture, after being approached on the matter, consented to co- 

 operate with the Society if the Society would undertake the work of 

 organizing the Examinations, and authorized that the Diploma shall 



