EEPOET OF THE COUNCIL. 



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however, most warmly welcomed the proposal, and will render the 

 Exhibition every assistance in their power. 



The Executive of the Exhibition, recognizing the importance of 

 securing the great w^eight of horticultural interest vested in the Society, 

 have approached the Council with a view to establishing a suitable 

 friendly working arrangement between the two bodies. Negotiations 

 have accordingly been actively proceeding, whereby it has been decided 

 that— 



(a) The Council agree — 



1. To forgo in 1912 the great Spring Show hitherto held, by 

 kind permission of the Treasurer, Master and Benchers, in 

 the gardens of the Inner Temple; 



2. To contribute £1000 towards the expenses of promoting the 

 International Exhibition; and 



3. To guarantee a further sum of £4000 against the hardly 

 probable contingency of there being an ultimate loss on the 

 Exhibition. 



(b) The Executive of the International Exhibition, 1912, agree— 



1. To give to all Fellows of the Society certain special and 

 definite privileges (which will be published in due time) in 



regard to the purchase of tickets for the Exhibition ; and 



2. To allow all such tickets purchased by Fellows of the Society 

 to be transferable. 



Fellows are particularly requested not to write to the Society on the 

 subject of this Exhibition, but, if any communications are necessary, 

 to address them to Edward White, Esq., Hon. Sec, International 

 Horticultural Exhibition, 7 Victoria Street, S.W. 



23. Recogrnition of Diligent Interest in Plants.— In response 



to frequent applications by school authorities for some token of en- 

 couragement of work with plants amongst their scholars, the Council 

 have founded a card of " Eecognition of Diligent Interest in Plants." 

 It is to be awarded to *the boy or girl who, in the yearly school com- 

 petitions in plant cultivation, or garden-plot keeping, or nature study, 

 has secured the first prize. 



24. Obituary. — In addition to the loss of our late Patron, King 

 Edward, the first name which will occur to any Fellow of the Society, 

 who knows anything whatever of the Society's hfstory, will be that of 

 Baron Schroder. From the very difficult days of 1S87, up to the last 

 year of his life, the Society had no better friend than the Baron. In 

 1888 he was one of the first to help pay off the debt which then 

 threatened the Society's very existence, and much as he disliked the 

 Drill Hall he loyally supported the Council, and was himself an active 

 member of it. When prosperity arose he began to urge the Council 

 to embark on a Hall of their own, and had it not been for the great 



