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of prizes awarded in the competition, (c) 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."'^ 



39. LIZARDS 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 zvith 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 

 simply 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 sender, 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, v^ith flies and beetles in abundance 

 and no children to break off their tails. Although the lizard is so common 

 in very many parts of Great Britain, Mr. Wilks has as yet only had two 

 specimens sent to him ! Yet Fellows by the thousand take advantage of 

 his offer of Shirley Poppy Seed. 



40. POPPY SEED. 



The Secretary will be pleased to send a packet of his 1910 crop of 

 Shirley Poppy Seed to any Fellows who like to send to Rev. W. Wilks, 

 Shirley Vicarage, Croydon, a stamped envelope ready addressed to them- 

 selves. The seed should be sown as early as possible in March. This is 

 an offer made by the Secretary in his private capacity, and it causes much 

 inconvenience when requests for seed are mixed up with letters sent to the 

 office in London instead of as above directed. 



41. 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. 



42. ADVERTISEMENTS. 



Fellows are reminded that the more they can place their orders with 

 those who advertise in the Society's Publications the more likely others 

 are to advertise also, and in this way the Society may be indirectly 

 benefited. 



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