cclxxx PEOCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



articles referred to. These special awards will remain good for ten years, 

 after which time the exhibitor will contract with the Council to cease 

 advertising the award, unless it shall have been subsequently granted for 

 another period of ten years. The ten years' period has been established 

 in view of the possibility of still better goods or inventions, &c., than 

 those which first won an award coming under the Society's notice. 

 (See "Book of Arrangements," 1913, p. 149.) 



17. THE WISLEY RESEARCH STATION. 



Investigations are now in full swing at the new Research Station and 

 Laboratory at Wisley. All communications relating to them should be 

 addressed to Mr. F. J. Chittenden, F.L.S., Director of the Research Work 

 on Scientific Matters affecting Practical Horticulture and Lecturer to the 

 Students. 



18. STUDENTS AT WISLEY. 



N.B. — There will be a few vacancies for the two years' Course com- 

 mencing in September, 1913. Early application should be made to the 

 Secretary. 



The Society admits young men, betwean the ages of sixteen and twenty- 

 two years, to study Gardening at Wisley. The curriculum includes not 

 only practical garden work in all the main branches of Horticulture, 

 but also Lactures, Demonstrations, and Horticultural Science in the 

 Laboratory, whereby a practical knowledge of Garden Chemistry, Biology, 

 &c., may be obtained. The Laboratory is equipped with the best appa- 

 ratus procurable for Students. The training extends over a period of 

 two years, with a progressive course for each year. Students can enter 

 only at the end of September or the end of March. Selected Students 

 have also the advantage of attending certain of the Society's Shows and 

 Lectures in London. 



19. DISTRIBUTION OF SURPLUS PLANTS. 



In a past Report the Council drew attention to the way in which 

 the annual distribution of surplus plants has arisen. In a large garden 

 there must always be a great deal of surplus stock, which must either 

 be given away or go to the waste-heap. A few Fellows, noticing this, 

 asked for plants which would otherwise be discarded ; and they valued 

 what was so obtained. Others hearing of it asked for a share, until the 

 Council felt they must either systematize this haphazard distribution 

 or else put a stop to it altogether. To take the latter step seemed 

 undesirable. Why should not sugh Fellows have them as cared to receive 

 such surplus plants ? It was, therefore, decided to keep all plants till 

 the early spring, and then give all Fellows alike the option of claiming 

 a share of them by Ballot. 



Fellows are, therefore, particularly requested to notice that only waste 

 and surplus plants raised from seeds or cuttings are available for dis- 

 tribution. Many of them may be of very little intrinsic value, and it 

 is only to avoid their being absolutely wasted that the distribution is 



