NOTICES TO FELLOWS. 



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22. SPRING AND SUMMER SHOWS, 1913. 



(a) Spring Shoto. 



It is with reluctance that the Council have found it necessary to change 

 the site of the Spring Show. For some five-and-twenty years past the 

 Society have enjoyed the hospitality of the Treasurer and Benchers of the 

 Inner Temple, in whose gardens a series of wonderful Flower Shows have 

 been held. The increasing attendance and consequent overcrowding in 

 recent years have, however, compelled the Council to seek for a larger 

 site ; they have therefore accepted the invitation of the G-overnors of the 

 Eoyal Hospital, Chelsea, to hold the Spring Shows in future on the same 

 site as the recent International Horticultural Exhibition. 



(b) Summer Show. 



The Summer Show will be held at Holland House as usual, the dates 

 being July 1, 2, and 3. 



Details of both Exhibitions will be published in due course, and 

 Fellows are asked to make them widely known and to do their utmost to 

 induce the attendance of their friends. 



23. RHODODENDRON SHOW, MAY 27-30, 1913. 



Messrs. John Waterer and Sons, of Bagshot, have arranged to hold 

 another exhibition of Rhododendrons in the Royal Horticultural Hall 

 from May 27-30, 1913. Fellows' tickets will admit. 



24. 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 

 it, with £10, for vegetables on September 23, 1913. 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 three years, but he may compete every year for any 

 second prize that may be offered. 



