NOTICES TO FELLOWS 



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erection of a fine series of glass-houses; of a dwelling-house for the 

 Superintendent; a cottage for the Fruit Foreman; and in establishing 

 a complete system of water supply and drainage works, and in road- 

 making. 



The Garden is situated about 2 miles from Ripley ; and about 3^ 

 miles from Horsley and 5^ miles from Weybridge, both stations on the 

 South- Western Railway, with frequent trains from Waterloo and Clapham 

 Junction. Carriages to convey four persons can be obtained by writing 

 to Mr. White, fly proprietor, Ripley, Surrey ; the charge being, to and 

 from Weybridge 10s., or to and from Horsley 7s. Excellent accommoda- 

 tion and refreshments can be had at the Hut Hotel, close to the Garden, 

 and also at the Hautboy at Ockham. 



12. DISTRIBUTION OF SURPLUS PLANTS. 



In their Report for 1905 the Council drew the attention of Fellows to 

 the way in which the annual distribution of surplus plants has arisen. 

 In a large garden there must always be a great deal of surplus stock 

 which must either be given away or go to the waste heap. A few Fellows, 

 noticing this, asked for plants which would otherwise be discarded ; and 

 they valued what was so obtained. Others hearing of it asked for a share, 

 until the Council felt they must either systematise this haphazard dis- 

 tribution or else put a stop to it altogether. To take the latter step 

 seemed undesirable. Why should not such Fellows have them as cared 

 to receive such surplus plants ? It was therefore decided to keep all 

 plants till the early spring, and then give all Fellows alike the option of 

 claiming a share of them by ballot. 



Fellows are particularly requested to note that a Form of Application 

 and list to choose from of the plants available for distribution is sent in 

 January every year to every Fellow, enclosed in the "Report of the 

 Council." To avoid all possibility of favour, all application lists are kept 

 until the last day of February, when they are all thrown into a Ballot, 

 and as the lists are drawn out, so is the order of their execution, the plants 

 being despatched as quickly as possible after March 1. 



Of some of the varieties enumerated the stock is small, perhaps not 

 more than twenty-five or fifty plants being available. It is therefore 

 obvious that when the Ballot is kind to any Fellow he will receive all the 

 plants exactly as he has chosen, but when the Ballot has given him an 

 unfavourable place he may find the stock of the majority of plants he has 

 chosen exhausted. A little consideration would show that all Fellows 

 cannot be first, and some must be last, in the Ballot. Application forms 

 received after March 1 and before April 30 are kept till all those previously 

 received have been complied with, and are then balloted in a similar way. 

 Fellows having omitted to fill up their application form before April 30 

 must be content to wait till the next distribution. The work of the 

 Garden cannot be disorganised by the sending out of plants at any later 

 time in the year. All Fellows can participate in the Annual Distribution 

 following their election. 



Fellows are particularly requested to notice that only waste and 

 surplus plants raised from seeds or cuttings are available for distribution. 



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