REPORT OF THE COUNCIL. 



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Tuesday, July 31. 

 First Session of the Conference. 



10.30. Opening Address by W. Bateson, Esq., F.R.S., President of the 

 Conference. 



1.15. Light Luncheon. 



2.30 to 5. Second Session of the Conference. 



6.80. Dinner at the Hotel Windsor at the kind invitation of the 

 Horticultural Club. 



Wednesday, August 1. 



10.30 A.M. to 12.45. Third Session of the Conference. 

 1.30. Luncheon at Burford, at the kind invitation of the President of 

 the Society, Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., K.C.V.O., V.M.H., &c. 



Thursday, August 2. 

 10.30 A.M. to 1. Fourth Session of the Conference. 

 1.15. Light Luncheon. 

 2.30 to 5. Fifth Session of the Conference. 

 7. Banquet in the Great Hall. 



Friday, August 3. 

 10.30 to 11.30. Visit the Natural History Museum. 

 12. Visit the Gardens at Gunnersbury. 



1.30. Luncheon at Gunnersbury, at the kind invitation of Mr. 

 Leopold de Rothschild. 



3 to 5. Visit Kew Gardens. 



Ladies are cordially invited to the conversazione and the banquet, to 

 both of which they will be gladly welcomed. The charge to Fellows for 

 tickets for the conversazione will be 25. Qd., and for the banquet 

 probably ^1 Is. Fellows will be allowed to introduce friends to both 

 these gatherings. 



31. Wisley. — The new Garden, which was so generously presented to 

 the Society by Sir Thomas Hanbury, V.M.H., K.C.V.O., is gradually 

 getting into thorough w^orking order. Fine collections of flowering 

 shrubs have been received from the Director of Kew Gardens, and from 

 the leading nurserymen ; and representative collections of roses have also 

 been given by the principal rose-growers. Much, however, still remains 

 to be done as soon as the state of the finances will permit. 



Mr. George Massee, V.M.H., has kindly undertaken some original 

 research work in the Garden, especially regarding the possible trans- 

 ference of the hazel-bud-mite to the black-currant, which, when com- 

 pleted, will be published in the Society's Journal. The want of a 

 properly equipped research station is becoming daily more acutely felt. 



The number of visitors to the Garden admitted by Fellows' tickets 

 during the year 1905 amounted to 5,250. This number is exclusive of 

 Horticultural parties, which were admitted by special arrangement, and 

 would bring up the total to over 6,000. 



32. Students, — Students are admitted to Wisley for a period of tw^o 

 years, and are trained in practical horticulture. Some of them also attend 



