Vlll TROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



custody of the Society. As long as that state of uncertanity existed, 

 the Council never felt justified in spending more tlian a small sum 

 annually out of the funds of the Society, in developing this valuable 

 collection of horticultural and botanical works. The Trust deed has at 

 last been modified — the existing Trustees have retired, and the Royal 

 Horticultural Society, acting by and through its Council, has now been 

 made sole Trustee, with the determining voice as to where the books 

 shall be kept. The Library having thus become permanently attached 

 to the Society, the Council have no longer any hesitation in spending 

 the Society's funds on the purchase of valuable books ; and a Committee 

 consisting of Messrs. H. J. Veitch (Chairman), E. A. Bowles, C. 

 Harman Payne, J. T. Bennett-Poe, and Dr. Daydon Jackson, with 

 the Treasurer and Secretary ex-officio, has been appointed, to advise 

 and assist the Council in the work of strengthening the Library. 



21. Olympia Show, July 4, 5, 6, 1911. — Holland Park, as has 

 been already mentioned, not being available this year, a new site for 

 the Summer Show had to be found, and after considerable anxiety 

 Olympia was fixed upon as the most advantageous place. The Great 

 Hall and Annexe of Olympia will afford ample space for a magnificent 

 exhibition, and the Council are sparing no effort so to arrange its details 

 that the Show may be an unqualified success in every way. The usual 

 features of a Summer Sliow^ — the open air, spacious lawns, and canvas 

 tents — will be absent, but in their place there will be the advantages 

 of wider gangways, dryness under foot, freedom from any of the un- 

 pleasant vagaries of our English climate, and last, but by no means 

 least, the possibility of keeping the Show open in the evening. 



The Main Hall will be surrounded by tiered stagmg rising to a height 

 of 15 feet, upon which imposing groups of plants and flowers can 

 be arranged; and at a lower level, the smaller exhibits on tabling will 

 be placed so as to leave a wide central avenue. The Annexe is being 

 reserved for rock and water gardens, grouped around a festooned and 

 pillared rose garden. 



Applications for the tiered staging for large groups (each allotment 

 has a frontage of 28 feet with a depth of 25 feet), or for a floor space 

 in the Annexe, should be made to the Secretary of the Society on or 

 after February 14th, when a ground plan of the Great Hall will be on 

 view. 



Accommodation for Sundries has also been provided round the walls 

 of the Main Hall. Those wishing to exhibit should at once book their 

 position by applying to the Secretary. 



22. International Horticultural Exhibition, May 22-30, 



1912. — ^ Most of the Fellows will have heard that an International . 

 Flower Show is to be held in London in the Spring of 1912. It should \ 

 be fully understood that the Eoyal Horticultural Society is not organiz- ' 

 ing this Exhibition, which will be worked by an absolutely distinct, | 

 and entirely separate and independent organization. The Council have, i 



