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meritorious exhibits during the year 1910, including the wonderful 

 collection of Stove and Greenhouse Plants shown on . October 25. 



15. Hospitality to Japanese.— An opportunity of recognizing the 

 debt which British Horticulture owes to Japan was afforded by the 

 Japan-British Exhibition, and the Council took advantage of it in two 

 ways. A deputation visited the gardens and horticultural exhibits at 

 the Shepherd's Bush Exhibition, and made a considerable number of 

 awards. They also invited the Japanese horticulturists in London, 

 with a few other prominent Japanese gentlemen, to be guests of the 

 Society at Luncheon at the Holland House Show\ These courtesies 

 were warmly appreciated. 



16. Visit to Woburn. — One of the pleasant recollections of the 

 year is a visit to the Experimental Fruit Farm at Woburn, by special 

 invitation of His Grace the Duke of Bedford. The party, consisting of 

 Members of the Council and of the Scientific and Fruit Committees, 

 were shown all the valuable and interesting research and experimental 

 work which the Duke, with the assistance of Mr. Spencer Pickering, 

 F.E.S., is carrying out at Woburn, and were also most handsomely 

 entertained at the Abbey. The President and Council desire to thank 

 the Duke and Mr. Spencer Pickering for the great interest they take 

 in the Society and its work. 



17. Deputations. — Deputations from the Council attended the 

 following shows, and made awards, viz. : — The National Flower Show 

 at Haarlem, on iVpril 13 ; and the Fruit Congress at Hexham, on 



I October 20. 

 18. OPChid Nomenclature. — A report on Nomenclature, sum- 

 marizing the opinions of experts and hybridists at home and abroad, was 

 sent from the Council to the Brussels International Horticultural Con- 

 gress, which met in April, 1910. Dr. Eendle, F.E.S., and Mr. E. A. 

 Bowles, M.A., represented the Society at the Congress, and it is gratify- 

 ing to know that the Eeport of the Society was approved in some of its 

 most important, details. The report is now aw^aiting final confirmation 

 by the next International Botanical Congress, before being finally 

 adopted for International use. 



19. Pritzel's Index. — The negotiations for the re-issue of 

 " Pritzel's Iconum Botanicarum Index," by the co-operation of a 

 Qumber of Horticultural and Botanical Societies, not having progressed 

 satisfactorily, a Committee w^as appointed by the Council to consider 

 jhe matter. This Committee has met many times during the past year ; 

 md the Council hope that success may even yet crown its labours. ., 



20. Library. — One of the most gratifying results of the past year's 

 vork is the establishment of the " Lindley Library " on a sure basis, 

 IS a perpetual adjunct of the Society. Under the original temrs of the 

 Tnist, the Trustees might at any time have removed the books fi^om the 



