NOTICES TO FELLOWS. 



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application form. It is impracticable to send plants by post, owing to the 

 lack of Post Office facilities for despatch without prepayment of postage. 



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. 



No plants will be sent to Fellows whose subscription is in arrear, or 

 who do not fill up their forms properly. 



20. EXHIBITIONS, MEETINGS, AND LECTURES 



IN 1912. 



The programme will be found in the " Book of Arrangements " for 

 1912. An Exhibition and Meeting is held practically every fortnight 

 throughout the year, and a short lecture on some subject connected with 

 Horticulture is delivered during the afternoon. 



A reminder of every Show will be sent in the week preceding to any 

 Fellow who will send to the R.H.S. Offices, Vincent Square, S.W., a 

 sufficient number (34) of halfpenny cards ready addressed to himself. 



21. DATES FIXED FOR 1912. 



Jan. 9, 23 July 2-4 (Summer Show), 9 & 10 



Feb. 6, 13 (Annual Meeting only), (Sweet Peas), 16, 23 (Carna- 



20 tions), 30 



March 5 and 6 (Bulb Show), 19, Aug. 13, 27 



21-22 (Carnations) Sept. 10, 12 (Autumn Rose Show), 



April 2, 16 and 17 (Daffodils), 30 24 (Vegetables) 



May 14 Oct. 8, 10-11 (Fruit Show), 22 



June 4, 18, 19 (Hardy Plants) Nov. 5 and 6 (Orchids), 19 



Dec. 3, 4 (Carnations) 



22. CHALLENGE CUPS. 



Affiliated Societies' Cup. 



A Ten guinea Silver Cup is to be annually offered at the Society's 

 Summer Show, to be competed for by Affiliated Societies. The Society 

 winning the Cup is to hold it in perpetuity as the property of the R.H.S., 

 but is to re-offer it annually at its own Shows for competition as a 

 Challenge Cup. A Society may not win one of these Cups more than 

 once in ten years, and it shall revert to the R.H.S. on the Affiliated 

 Society ceasing to exist or ceasing to be affiliated. For further particulars 

 see "Book of Schedules " for 1912. 



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 



