CCXxii PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



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 selected, 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 dealt 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 year's distribution. The work of 

 the Gardens cannot be disorganised by the sending-out of plants at any 

 later time in the year. All Fellows can participate in the distribution of 

 the yedkv following their election. 



The Society does not pay the cost of packing and carriage. The charge 

 for this will be collected by the carriers on delivery of the plants, which 

 will be addressed exactly as given by each Fellow on his application 

 form. 



It must, however, be borne in mind that, owing to the lack of facilities 

 at the local Post Office^and the refusal of the P.O. authorities to collect 

 parcels, it is impossible to send plants by post. Rail or carrier are the 

 only available methods. 



Fellows residing beyond a radius of thirty-five miles from London 

 are permitted to choose double the number of plants to which they are 

 otherwise entitled. 



Plants cannot be sent to Fellows residing outside the United King- 

 dom, owing either to length of time in transit or to vexatious regulations 

 in some foreign countries ; but the Council will at any time endeavour to 

 obtain for Fellows living abroad any unusual or rare seeds which they 

 may have been unable to procure in their own country. 



15. THE SOCIETY'S HALL AND OFFICES. 



The Royal Horticultural Hall and Offices are situated in Vincent 

 Square, which lies straight through Ashley Gardens from Victoria Street, 

 Westminster, and is about five minutes' walk from the Victoria and St. 

 James's Park Stations. 



16. LETTING OF THE HALL. 



Fellows are earnestly requested to make known among their friends 

 and among other institutions that the Royal Horticultural Hall is 

 available, twelve days in each fortnight, for Meetings, Shows, Exhibitions, 



