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equal, the Council reserve to themselves the right to decide which of them 

 shall be presented to the Scholarship. 



2. The Society will also hold an Examination in Cottage Gardening 

 on April 23, 1913. This Examination is intended for, and is confined 

 to. Elementary and Technical School Teachers. It is undertaken in 

 view of the increasing demand in country districts that the Schoolmaster 

 shall be competent to teach the elements of Cottage Gardening, and 

 the absence of any test of such competence. The general conduct 

 of this Examination is on similar lines to that of the more general 

 Examination. Questions on Elementary Chemistry and Biology are 

 included in this Examination. 



3. The Society will hold an examination in the Royal Horticultural 

 Hall, Vincent Square, S.W., on Monday, January 6, 1913, for gardeners 

 employed in Public Parks and Gardens belonging to County Councils, 

 City Corporations, and similar bodies. Entries close on December 30, 

 1912. 



Medals and Certificates are awarded and Class Lists published in 

 connexion with these Examinations. The Syllabus may be obtained 

 on application to the Secretary, R.H.S., Vincent Square, London, S.W. 



30. INFORMATION. 



Fellows may obtain information and advice from the Society as to 

 the names of flowers and fruit, on points of practice, insect and fungoid 

 attacks, and other questions, by applying to the Secretary, R.H.S., 

 Vincent Square, Westminster, S.W. Where at all practicable it is 

 particularly requested that letters and specimens may be timed to reach 

 Vincent Square by the first post on the mornings of the Fortnightly 

 Meetings, so as to be laid before the Scientific or other Committees at once. 



31. INSPECTION OF FELLOWS' GARDENS. 



The Inspection of Gardens belonging to Fellows is conducted by a 

 thoroughly competent Inspector from the Society, who reports and 

 advises at the following cost, viz. a fee of £3 8s. for one day (or £5 5s. 

 for two consecutive days), together with all out-of-pocket expenses. No 

 inspection may occupy more than two days, save by special arrangement. 

 Fellows wishing for the services of an Inspector are requested to give at 

 least a week's notice and choice of two or three days, and to indicate the 

 most convenient railway station and its distance from their gardens. 

 Gardens can only be inspected at the written request of the owner. 



Nota Bene. — The work of inspecting Fellows' gardens and advising 

 thereupon has increased so much of recent years, and has necessitated 

 Mr. Wright's absence from the Wisley Garden so often, that the Council 

 of the Society have long felt the desirability of appointing an Inspector 

 of Fellows' gardens who should be entirely independent of the Wisley 

 staff, thus leaving Mr. Wright free to devote his whole time to the 

 Society's Garden and to the Society's Shows. 



The very great difficulty of finding an Inspector who should not only 

 be as efficient and capable as Mr. Wright, and one who is also in constant 

 touch with a fine garden and all the newest additions to horticulture, has 



