NOTICES TO FELLOWS. 



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32. DISBUDDING OF ORCHIDS. 



At the request of the Orchid Committee the Council have made a 

 rule that " Awards will not be given to any Orchids of which the 

 natural size and character of the flowers have, in the opinion of the 

 Orchid Committee, been in any way changed or improved through 

 the removal of a bud or buds, or part of the spike." 



33. DISBUDDING CHRYSANTHEMUMS. 



When single-flowered Chrysanthemum plants are submitted for 

 certificate, one plant must be shown without any disbudding whatso- 

 ever, and one plant somewhat disbudded, in order that the quality of 

 the blooms on the undisbudded stems may be compared with those on 

 the disbudded stems. 



34. ADVERTISEMENTS. 



Fellows are reminded that the more they can place their orders with 

 those who advertise in the Society's Pubhcations the more likely others 

 are to advertise also, and in this way the Society may be indirectly 

 benefited. 



DOUGLAS' JOURNAL. 



At the request of the U.S.A. Department of Agriculture the Society 

 has quite recently published the Diary kept by David Douglas nearly a 

 hundred years ago of his exploration of the wildest parts of North 

 and North-Western America, whither the Society had sent him chiefly 

 with a view to the introduction of new plants. It will be found to be 

 vastly interesting, not only on account of the extraordinary number 

 of the plants he discovered, but also on account of the topographical 

 notes it contains and the evidence it affords of the condition of the 

 country and of the Indians a hundred years ago. It is published by 

 Messrs. Wesley & Son, Essex Street, Strand, London. Price is. 



