CCXviii PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



CERTIFICATES OF DILIGENT INTEREST IN PLANTS. 



Certificates of Diligent Interest in Plants have been awarded to 

 the following children during 1914 as follows : — 



Mabel Buzzard. First in Whissendine School Daffodil Competition, 

 March 6. 



Albert Alexander. First in Bransgore School Tulip Competition, 

 March 21. 



Reuben Jose. First in Bransgore School Daffodil Competition, 

 March 21. 



Violet Rushton. First in Waterloo Wesleyan School Competition 

 for best kept Garden Plot, September 7. 



In March the Royal Drawing Society sent selected studies from 

 their young people's Competitions for the consideration of the Council. 

 Certificates were awarded to : — 



Grace Watson, Birkenhead, for a colour brush study of plant growth 



in light and darkness, March 26. 

 Annie Smith, Bristol, for microscopic study of the life-history of 



Selaginella, March 26. 

 Ada Vinson, Gravesend, for colour study of opening bud of the 



Horse Chestnut, March 26. 

 Gladys Foster, Gravesend, for colour drawings of twelve Dehiscent 



Fruits, March 26. 



The following letter was sent to the Royal Drawing Society :— 

 "It is with great pleasure that our Society has examined the 

 specimens bearing on horticultural and botanical study which have 

 been submitted to us by the Royal Drawing Society. It is immediately 

 evident that the Royal Drawing Society is doing excellent work which 

 must bear good fruit in the future, not simply to the art and science 

 of drawing, but to all those kindred arts and sciences which are so 

 dependent on accurate delineation for the production of rehable 

 records. The specimens which have been submitted to us, although 

 executed by students of only fifteen to eighteen years of age, are in 

 themselves evidence of most exact observation, and are worthy to 

 rank with the productions which illustrate our best gardening and 

 botanical books. Our Society feels that it owes a real debt of gratitude 

 to the Royal Drawing Society for thus training and encouraging young 

 people to fit themselves for the accurate and exact delineation of 

 plants and plant life from their own personal observation and study. 

 — March 26, 1914." 



