X PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



what language) the colour and shade of any particular flower they refer to ? 

 There seemed no other difficulty than the somewhat prohibitive cost of 

 £1 Is. net. By undertaking to be responsible for a very large number, 

 the Society is now in a position to offer this Chart to its Fellows at the 

 reduced cost of 14s. Gd., for which price it "can be obtained at the Society's 

 Offices, Vincent Square, or it can be sent free by post for 15s. ; but in all 

 cases a cheque or postal order must be sent beforehand. 



The Council hope that Fellows will avail themselves of this offer, as 

 unless a large number of copies are purchased a considerable loss will 

 accrue to the Society. 



The 1909 Code of Rules for Judging.— The Society's Code of 

 " Rules for Judging " has again been carefully revised and many alterations 

 and additions suggested by the last few years' experience have been 

 adopted. The Council cannot too strongly recommend a careful perusal 

 of the Code (price Is. 6d.) to the Secretaries of all local shows and their 

 exhibitors. 



Conference On Spraying-.— A useful and important Conference on 

 the spraying of Fruit Trees was held on October 16, when papers 

 were read by Mr. Geo. Massee, V.M.H., Mr. H. F. Getting, Mr. F. V. 

 Theobald, M.A., and Mr. Geo. Hammond, to whom the Council are 

 greatly indebted. They also desire to acknowledge with thanks the 

 Chairmanship of Colonel Warde, M.P., and Colonel Long, M.P., at the 

 morning and afternoon sessions. Discussions followed the various papers ; 

 and the full text of the Conference will be found in the Society's Journal, 

 Volume xxxiv., Part 3. 



Obituary. — Each year removes from the Society's list of Fellows 

 names which have- appeared for a long succession of years, and by their 

 removal the Society is so much the poorer. We are no longer able to 

 record the Fellowship of the late Duke of Devonshire, whose tenant the 

 Society was for so long at Chiswick ; The Earl of Annesley, a past 

 Member of the R.H.S. Council; Mr. Martin R. Smith, V.M.H., the 

 prince of modern Carnation growers ; Mr. Geo. Nicholson, Y.M.H., 

 F.L.S., for many years Curator of Kew, a member of our Scientific 

 Committee and one of our Examiners in Horticulture, and the author of 

 "The Dictionary of Gardening"; Sir Henry Lawrence, Bart., Sub- 

 Treasurer of the Inner Temple ; Mr. Henry Balderson, for years a Vice- 

 Chairman of the Fruit Committee, and Mr. R. Lye, a member of the same 

 Committee at the time of his death. Amongst other missing names are 

 those of Sir William B. Avery, Bart., the Hon. Mrs. Barton, Major- 

 General H. P. Bishop, Dr. E. Bonavia (of the Scientific Committee), the 

 Dowager Marchioness of Conyngham, the Marquis E. de la Valette, Lady 

 Farquhar, General Sir Reginald Gipps, K.C.B., the Dowager Lady Loder, 

 Colonel Sir William T. Makins, Bart., Lieut.-Col. John Moore-Brabazon, 

 the Earl of Rosse, F.R.S., the Hon. Mrs. E. Stanhope, Sir Condie 

 Stephen, K.C.V.O., C.B., Mrs. Towrey White, Sir F. W. Wigan, Bart., 

 Frau Ida Brandt, the Marquis de Wavrin, the Rev. F. Paynter and Mr. 

 E. Fison. 



