XCll PEOCEEDINGS OF THE EOYAL HOETICULTUEAL SOCIETY. 



36. RECOGNITION OF DILIGENT INTEREST 



IN PLANTS. 



The Council have founded a card of " Becognition of Diligent Interest 

 in Plants." Issued in response to frequent applications by school 

 authorities for some token of approval of work with plants amongst 

 scholars, it is to be awarded to the boy or girl (or both) who, in the 

 yearly school competitions in plant cultivation, or garden plot keeping, 

 or nature study, has secured the first prize. The cards are 12 inches 

 by 8 inches, and may be had on application to the Secretary, E.H.S., 

 Vincent Square, London, S.W., price Qd. each. Space is left for the 

 signatures of the head master or mistress and a member of the educa- 

 tional authority concerned. The application should contain information 

 as to (a) the nature of the competition, (6) the number of competitors, 

 (c) the judges, {d) the number of prizes awarded in the competition, 

 [e) the full name of the first prize winner. The Council of the R.H.S. 

 will at their own absolute discretion grant or withhold this " recognition." 



37. SCALY LIZARD" WANTED„ 



The Secretary of the Society has a great desire to reintroduce the 

 common "scaly lizard" of English heaths and gorse commons in a 

 neighbourhood where it once was common but from which it has in 

 recent years disappeared. Would any Fellow of the Society living in a 

 district where the lizard is abundant be so very kind as to catch half 

 a dozen or so, and send them by post in a tin box ivith air holes, 

 addressed Rev. W. Wilks, Shirley Vicarage, Croydon? The box must 

 not be wrapped in paper, or the inhabitants will get no air and die. It 

 should have a little grass and a few sprays of heather inside, and be 

 sim|)ly tied round tightly with string and several small holes made in 

 each side for air to enter freely. Mr. Wilks will be vastly grateful to 

 any sendei^, and will give the little strangers a hearty welcome and intro- 

 duce them to a gloriously sunny bank with rough stones to lie under and 

 plenty of heather and gorse near by, with flies and beetles in abundance 

 and no children to break off their tails. 



38. PLANT LABELLING. 



Complaints are frequently received from Fellows to the effect that 

 plants in groups are insufficiently or too inconspicuously labelled. The 

 Secretary therefore urges that name cards affixed to plants be boldly and 

 plainly printed or written in print-like letters. 



39. SPRING BULB SHOW, IQH. 



The Council of the Royal Horticultural Society have accepted the 

 offer of the following prizes from the General Bulb Growers' Society at 

 Haarlem, to be competed for on March 14 and 15, 1911. 



