Xcvi PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Sargeant, G. 0. Sawday, J. Sheldon, Mrs. Shiers, Mrs. Silver, Sir John 

 Sinclair, Bart., D.S.O., T. E. Tomalin, Mrs. Tomlin, Miss H. M. 

 Tremayne, 0. J. Trevarthen, Major W. D. 0. Trimnell, Miss M. A. 

 Usborne, Mrs. Vandervell, Mrs. van Sandan, Mrs. Vincent, Mrs. S. 

 Wade, Mrs. Walker, Mrs. Webb, F. G. Wheeler, R. E. WilHams, 

 Lady Muriel Worthington. 



Fellows resident abroad (2).— G. H. Perkins (Canada), F. H. Snow 

 (S. AustraUa). 



Associates (2). — Miss G. Kalisky, 0. Shoyler. 



Societies affiliated (2). — Folkestone Gardeners' Society, Parkstone 

 Gardeners' Association. 



The Seventh Masters Memorial Lecture on " Gardening and 

 Drought " was given by Professor 1. Bay ley Balfour, F.E.S.j'V.M.H. 

 (see p. 206). 



THE R.H.S. BANQUET TO FOREIGN HORTIOULTUEISTS ON 

 FRIDAY, MAY 24, 1912, IN CONNEXION WITH THE 

 ROYAL INTERNATIONAL HORTICULTURAL EXHIBITION . 



A VERY large number of the Fellows of the Society will have visited 

 the magnificent International Horticultural Exhibition which was held 

 at Chelsea on May 22 to 30, 1912. From the moment of its inception 

 the President and Council of the Society have shown their willingness 

 to assist the directors to the utmost of their power in promoting so 

 important an Exhibition, and they also felt they could not allow so 

 grand an opportuuity to pass without in some way tendering a social 

 welcome from the old Society to the multitude of foreign horticulturists 

 gathered together in London for the Exhibition. It was therefore 

 decided to invite as many of them as possible to a grand banquet in 

 the Hall of the Society at Vincent Square. About 450 guests accepted 

 the Society's invitation. They were received by the President, Sir 

 Trevor Lawrence, Bart., K.C.V.O., V.M.H., in the Lecture Room, 

 and while waiting for dinner to be announced they were given the 

 opportunity of seeing the Council Room and Library and the valuable 

 portraits hanging therein. 



The large Hall was very tastefully arranged for the banquet. Groups 

 of large palms and other plants had been placed in suitable positions, 

 and these, with the floral decorations of the forty -one round tables 

 laid for the guests, gave a bright and pleasiug effect. From the 

 moment of the reception by the President to the moment of departure 

 there was a tone of warm friendliness, sociability, and informality 

 pervading the evening. 



The dinner was provided by Messrs. Searcy Tansley, of Con- 

 naught Street, W., and was excellently and quickly served under the i 

 personal superintendence of Mr. Hellyer, the manager. 



During dinner, by his kind permission, the private band of Alfred 

 de Rothschild, Esq., conducted by Plerr Carl Heubert, discoursed a 

 charming selection of music. And after dinner Monsieur Tivadar 



