NOTICES TO FELLOWS. 



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permitted. The great majority also are, of necessity, very small, and 

 may require careful treatment for a time. 



Fellows are particularly requested to note that a Form of Application 

 and list to choose from of the plants available for distribution is sent 

 in January every year to every Fellow, enclosed in the "Report of the 

 Council." To avoid all possibility of favour, all application lists are kept 

 until the last day of February, when they are all thrown into a Ballot ; 

 and as the lists are drawn out, so is the order of their execution, the plants 

 J . being despatched as quickly as possible after March 1. 



Of some of the varieties enumerated the stock is small, perhaps not 

 more than twenty-five or fifty plants being available. It is, therefore, 

 obvious that when the Ballot is kind to any Fellow he will receive the 

 majority of the plants-he has selected, but when the Ballot has given him 

 an unfavourable place he may find the stock of almost all the plants he 

 has chosen exhausted. A little consideration would show that all Fellows 

 ! cannot be first, and some must be last, in the Ballot. Application forms 

 received after March 1 and before April 80 are kept till all those previously 

 received have been dealt with, and are then balloted in a similar way. 

 Fellows having omitted to fill up their application form before April 80 

 must be content to wait till the next year's distribution. The work of 

 the Gardens cannot be disorganized by the sending out of plants at any 

 later time in the year. All Fellows can participate in the annual dis- 

 tribution following their election. 



The Society does not pay the cost of packing and carriage. The 

 charge for this will be collected by the carriers on delivery of the 

 plants, which will be addressed exactly as given by each Fellow on his 

 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 1913. 



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

 1913. 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 (31) of halfpenny cards ready addressed to himself. 



