Ixxxviii PROCEEDINGS OE THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



To the privileges of Affiliated Societies have been added all the 

 benefits accruing under the scheme recently introduced for the Union 

 of Horticultural Mutual Improvement Societies. 



Secretaries of Affiliated Societies can obtain on application a 

 specimen of a Card which the Council have prepared for the use of 

 Affiliated Societies for Certificates, Commendations, &c. Price 3s. Qd. 

 for 10 copies, 5s. 6d. for 20, lis. Qd. for 50, 20s. for 100. 



The Council have also struck a special Medal for the use of Affiliated 

 Societies. It is issued at cost price in Bronze, Silver, and Silver-gilt — 

 viz. Bronze, 5s. Qd., with case complete ; Silver, 12s. 6d., with ease 

 complete ; Silver-gilt, 16s. 6d,, with case complete. Award Cards having 

 the Medal embossed in relief can be sent with the Medal if ordered, price 

 6d. each. 



28. UNION OF HORTICULTURAL MUTUAL 

 IMPROVEMENT SOCIETIES. 



This Union has been established for the encouragement and assistance 

 of Horticultural Mutual Improvement Societies, the object being to 

 strengthen existing Societies, to promote interchange of lecturers, to 

 provide printed lectures, and if possible to increase the number of these 

 useful Societies. 



A new and revised list of lecturers and their subjects, and a list of 

 typewritten lectures, with or without lantern slides, prepared by the 

 Society, may be obtained from the Secretary R.H.S., price Sd. 



Lantern slides on horticultural topics are much needed, and their 

 gift will be appreciated. 



29. COLOUR CHART. 



Hardly a gardener or florist exists who has not at times longed for 

 a CoLouE Chart — that is to say, for a standard of reference whereby he 

 could himself name, or recognize, or convey to a friend at a distance, the 

 exact shade of colour of a flower he desired to procure or had seen 

 advertised, or wished to commend to a friend. Take, for example, the 

 word " crimson " ; what a multitude of colours and shades it may be made 

 to include ! Some, very beautiful ; some, horrible concoctions of red and 

 blue crudely combined. 



The Council of the Society have long felt the need of such a Colour 

 Chart, but the huge expense of production has hitherto deterred them 

 from issuing it. 



Not long since an admirable chart, containing more than 1,450 shades 

 of colour between white and black, was published at the instance of the 

 French Chrysanthemum Society, the price being £1 Is. net, and by it 

 it is now possible to exactly recognize or describe to a friend or purchaser 

 at a distance the precise colour of any possible flower. You may have 

 met with an Azalea, for instance, which greatly strikes your fancy ; you 

 take out your Chart and match its shade, and describe it to your friend 

 or your nurseryman as, " Colour : Apricot, p. 53, shade 3," and he turns 

 to his Chart and sees exactly what it is you want or describe. Or you 



