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20. SUMMER SHOW, OLYMPIA, 1911. 



Olympia, Kensington, bas been engaged for the Society's Snmnior 

 Sbow in 1911. The Show will be open on three clays, viz. : — On July 4 

 and 5 until 10 p.m., and on July 6 until 6 p.m. 



Holland House Park not being available, Olympia commends itself for 

 the Show. The light is good, and the Hall has proportions which 

 conduce to an effective display. Fellows will be afforded the comfort of 

 broad gangways, dryness underfoot, and protection from the vagaries of 

 weather. 



Remaining open during the first two evenings at popular prices, 

 opportunity to see the Show will be afforded to a large proportion of the 

 public whose business hours prohibit an afternoon attendance. 



Special particulars for the guidance of exhibitors will be issued in the 

 " Book of Arrangements " for 1911. The fixtures at Olympia reduce the 

 time for preparation to a narrow limit, and it will be therefore necessary 

 for exhibitors of large groups to well and carefully consider their own 

 special requirements beforehand. 



A Twenty Guinea Cup has been offered to the Council by the New 

 Olympia Company, Limited, and accepted by them for award at this Show. 



21. BRITISH FRUIT AND VEGETABLES. 



In 1911, instead of the system of scattering the prizes offered all 

 through the year, they will be concentrated on two meetings, the 

 Great Fruit Show being held on October 12 and 13, and the Vegetable 

 Show being combined with the Ordinary Meeting on September 26. The 

 Schedules of the Prizes will be ready in March next. 



22. CHALLENGE CUPS FOR VEGETABLES. 



A handsome Silver-gilt Challenge Cup has been presented to the 

 Society by Messrs. Sutton, of Reading, and the Council will again offer 

 it, with £10, for the best collection of twelve kinds of vegetables on 

 September 26, 1911. The Society also offers a Champion Challenge Cup 

 for the greatest number of points obtained by any one exhibitor throughout 

 the same Exhibition, the winner of the Sutton Cup being excluded. These 

 Cups may be won by the same exhibitor only once in four years, but he 

 may compete every year for any second prize that may be offered. 



23. SHOWS OF KINDRED SOCIETIES IN 1910. 



The following dates have been fixed, on which R.H.S. Fellows' tickets 

 will admit : — 



March 23. — Stour Valley Gardening Society. 

 May 3. — Auricula and Primula Society. 

 May 17.— Tulip Society. 



June 9. — Perpetual Flowering Carnation Society 



July 12-13. — SAveet Pea Society. 



July 26. — Carnation and Picotee Society. 



