viii PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
23. Silver-Leaf Disease. — Mr. J. Bintner has carried out at Wisley a number 
of inoculation experiments with silver-leaf disease during the year, and the 
Council appointed a Committee to consider what steps could be taken to battle 
with this pest. Much has been accomplished by various v/orkers in this country, 
and arrangements are being made to publish a summary of what is known in 
the Society's Journal. 
24. School of Horticulture. — The number of young men now attending the 
second year's course of training at Wisley has reached its pre-war level and 
negotiations have been opened at the instance of the Board of Education for 
the training of teachers in gardening. The number of students to be trained 
is limited by the lack of housing accommodation, and a Hostel for students is 
one of the most urgently needed requirements of the Society. 
25. Training of Disabled Men. — Arrangements have been completed for 
giving tv/enty men disabled in the war a year's training in market-gardening 
and fruit-growing, in connection with the Government land settlement scheme. 
They will be lodged in huts to be erected in the Gardens by the authorities 
concerned. 
26. Gifts. — A scholarship, tenable at the Society's Gardens for two years, 
has been most kindly founded by Sir James Knott, Bt. Its value is £'^0 a 
year, and it will be given biennially to men not exceeding twenty-two years 
of age who have secured a first class in the Society's General Examination in 
Horticulture. The founding of scholarships at the Society's Garden is one 
of the most useful ways in which friends of the Society, and of Horticulture, 
can help forward its educational work and the general progress of the gardening 
profession. To many promising young men the addition of a scholarship of 
this value is sufficient to make possible a thorough grounding in the rudiments 
of horticulture which would otherwise be beyond their reach. The Council 
are most grateful to Sir James Knott for this gift, and hope it may prove 
provocative of imitation, particularly in the direction of the establishment of 
Scholarships in Practical Research. 
The Society is greatly indebted to Sir Francis Burdett, Bt., for a 
magnificent Silver Challenge Cup which the Council propose to award to the 
best exhibit of Gladiolus made during the year. {See " Arrangements," p. 58.) 
The Council acknowledge with many thanks a valuable engraving of Sir 
Joseph Hooker in the midst of Himalayan surroundings, kindly presented by 
Mr. Gerald W. E. Loder. 
The Council have also to thank Messrs. Bunyard, of Maidstone, for a Silver 
Cup to be awarded to the best newly raised Apple. {See " Arrangements," 
p. 62.) 
The conditions attaching to these and other Cups will be found in the " Book 
of Arrangements " for 1920. 
A number of books, plants, and seeds have been presented to Wisley during 
the year, and our thanks are due to the kind donors. Special mention should 
be made of a handsome legacy from the late Lady Macleay, which included 
a beautifully bound complete set of the Botanical Magazine ; and of the gift 
of a large number of books, herbarium specimens, and excellent botanical lantern- 
slides, from the Rev. Professor George Henslow, V.M.H. Mr. James Hudson, 
V.M.H., has offered a prize of to Wisley Students in 1920 and 1921. Money 
gifts to the Laboratory have also been received from B. Buxton, Esq., and 
J. Buchanan, Esq. The family of the late Mrs. K. Spurrell has presented that 
lady's collection of Daffodils. These will be planted together and known as 
the " Katherine Spurrell collection." 
27. Dr. Rendle and the Society's Meetings. — The Society is advancing with 
the general advance of the world in this time of after-war reconstruction, and 
among other developments the Council have an earnest desire to give greater 
importance and emphasis to the lectures delivered at the Society's fortnightly 
meetings. Now that the Meetings are again held in our own Hall at Vincent 
Square, and the lecture room is again available, it is hoped that Fellows will 
attend the lectures more regularly and in greater numbers. An interesting 
feature introduced into the calendar for 1920 is the delivery of conversational 
lectures by the Society's recently appointed Botanical Professor, Dr. A. B. 
Rendle, F.R.S., F.L.S., V.M.H. , who will draw the attention of the Fellows 
present to any special points of interest in the plants and flowers to be found 
