vi PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
support be forthcoming. Subscriptions should be sent at once to the 
Secretary, 117 Victoria Street, Westminster, and if the list prove 
satisfactory the Schedule will be issued in April, and the Show held 
on September 27, 28, and 29, 1900. The list of subscribers for 1899 
will be published in Part 3 of vol. xxiii. of the Society's Journal. 
An invitation was received and accepted for sending a deputation 
to visit a Show of Daffodils and other early spring flowers and produce 
held at Truro on March 21 and 22, 1899. The Council desire to express 
their best thanks for the great courtesy and hospitality with which their 
deputation was received in Cornwall. 
The Journal of the Society has been continued so as to enable 
Fellows at a distance to enter more fully into and reap the benefits 
of the study and work of those actively engaged at headquarters. 
Vol. xxii., Part 4, and Parts 1 and 2 of vol. xxiii. were issued during 
the year. Vol. xxiii., Part 3, will be ready on April 1, and vol. xxiv., on 
the Hybrid Conference, as quickly as possible. 
An examination in the principles and practice of horticulture was 
held on April 11, concurrently in different parts of the United Kingdom,, 
a centre being established wherever a magistrate, clergyman, school- 
master, or other responsible person accustomed to examinations would 
consent to act on the Society's behalf, in accordance with the rules laid 
down for its conduct. No limit as to age, position, or previous 
training of the candidates was imposed. One hundred and sixty-five 
candidates presented themselves for examination. The names and 
addresses of those who succeeded in satisfying the examiners, together 
with the number of marks assigned to each, will be found in the Society's 
Journal, vol. xxiii., page 64. 
It is proposed to hold a similar examination in 1900, on Wednesday^ 
April 25. Candidates wishing to sit for the examination should make 
apphcation during February to the Secretary, R.H.S. Office, 117 
Victoria Street, Westminster. 
The thanks of the Society are due to all the members of the Standing 
Committees, viz. Scientific, the Fruit and Vegetable, the Floral, the 
Orchid, and the Narcissus Committees, for the kind and patient attention 
which they have severally given to their departments. 
The thanks of the Society are also due to all those who, either at 
home or abroad, have so kindly presented plants or seeds to the Gardens. 
A list of the donors has been prepared, and will be found in the Society's 
Journal, vol. xxiii., Part 3, which will be issued on April 1. 
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 that the Society's fortnightly 
meetings are becoming fully appreciated by Fellows aiid the public in 
general. 
