Ixxvi PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Fellows are therefore particularly requested to notice that only waste 

 and surplus plants raised from seeds or cuttings are available for dis- 

 tribution. Many of them may be of very little intrinsic value, and it 

 is only to avoid their being absolutely wasted that the distribution is 

 permitted. The great majority also are of necessity very small, and 

 may require careful treatment for a time. 



Fellows are particularly requested to note that a Form of Application 

 and list to choose from of the plants available for distribution is sent in 

 January every year to every Fellow, enclosed in the "Report of the 

 Council." To avoid all possibility of favour, all application lists are kept 

 until the last day of February, when they are all thrown into a Ballot ; 

 and as the lists are drawn out, so is the order of their execution, the plants 

 being despatched as quickly as possible after March 1. 



Of some of the varieties enumerated the stock is small, perhaps not 

 more than twenty-five or fifty plants being available. It is therefore 

 obvious that when the Ballot is kind to any Fellow he will receive the 

 majority of the plants he has selected, but when the Ballot has given him 

 an unfavourable place he may find the stock of almost all the plants he 

 has chosen exhausted. A little consideration would show that all Fellows 

 cannot be first, and some must be last, in the Ballot. Application forms 

 received after March 1 and before April 30 are kept till all those previously 

 received have been dealt with, and are then balloted in a similar way. 

 Fellows having omitted to fill up the;r application form before April 30 

 must be content to wait till the next year's distribution. The work of 

 the Gardens cannot be disorganized by the sending out of plants at any 

 later time in the year. All Fellows can participate in the annual dis- 

 tribution following their election. 



The Society does not pay the cost of packing and carriage. The 

 charge for this will be collected by the carriers on delivery of the 

 plants, which will be addressed exactly as given by each Fellow on his 

 application form. It is impracticable to send plants by post, owing to the 

 lack of Post Office facilities for despatch without prepayment of postage. 



Fellows residing beyond a radius of thirty-five miles from London 

 are permitted to choose double the number of plants to which they are 

 otherwise entitled. 



Plants cannot be sent to Fellows residing outside the United King- 

 dom, owing either to length of time in transit or to vexatious regulations 

 in some foreign countries ; but the Council will at any time endeavour to 

 obtain for Fellows living abroad any unusual or rare seeds which they 

 may have been unable to procure in their own country. 



No plants will be sent to Fellows whose subscription is in arrear, or 

 who do not fill up their form properly. 



19. EXHIBITIONS, MEETINGS, AND LECTURES 



IN 1911. 



The programme will be found in the " Book of Arrangements " for 

 1911. An Exhibition and Meeting is held practically every fortnight 

 throughout the year, and a short lecture on some subject connected with 

 Horticulture is delivered during the afternoon. 



A reminder of every Show will be sent in the week preceding to any 



