ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF AFFILIATED SOCIETIES. CCIII 



1 Class 141. — 8 Fruits of any late variety not included above. 

 I Foux Prizes, 7s., 6s., 5s., 4:s. 



1. Mr. A. Basile. 



2. Lord Foley. 



3. Lord Howard de Walden. 



4. Mrs. Bankes. 



Feuit Competition for Affiliated Societies. 



Six Dishes, distinct. Cooking Apples; Six Dishes, distinct, Dessert 

 Apples ; Six Dishes, distinct, Dessert Pears. Six Fruits to each dish. 

 Affiliated Societies. It is stipulated that no two Societies may com- 

 bine, and that each Society com-peting collects all the specimens shown 

 from amongst their own members only, and not from outside. Eight 

 days' notice must be given of intention to compete. 



First, Challenge Cup to be held for 12 months, and Silver-gilt 

 Knightian Medal. Second, Silver-gilt Banksian Medal. 



The Cup may be won once only in three years by any one Society ; but 

 the Winners may compete for any other prizes offered in this Class. If the 

 same Societies which won the Challenge Cup in 1909 and 1910 again exhibit and 

 either is considered by the Judges to be 1st, thus again establishing the 

 excellence of their Society's exhibit, a smaller Silver Cup will be awarded by 

 the Council instead of the Medal offered as the 2nd Prize, but in future years 

 the winning Society must win again in the immediately following year in order 

 bo establish a claim for the smaller Cup in place of the Silver-gilt Knightian 

 Medal. 



Silver Challenge Cup: Ipswich and District Gardeners' and Ama- 

 teurs' Assoc.: Sec, F. W. Salmon, 65 

 Brook Hall Eoad, Ipswich. 



Silver Cup : East Anglian Horticultural Club: Sec, 



W. L. Wallis, 12 Eoyal Arcade, Nor- 

 wich. 



Silver Knightian Medal : Colchester and District Gardeners' Assoc. : 



Sec, W. H. Tanner, 43 East Street. 

 Colchester. 



REPOET OF THE ANNUAL CONFEEENCE OF AFFILIATED 

 SOCIETIES AND OF THE UNION OF MUTUAL IM- 

 PEOVEMENT SOCIETIES. 



The Annual Conference was held on October 11 at the Eoyal Horti- 

 cultural Hall, the Eev. W. "Wilks, M.A., Secretary of the E.H.S., 

 Ji the chair. 



1. The Agenda being somewhat lengthy, the meeting asked the 

 chairman to begin by reading the paper he had prepared on Some 



I Difficulties in Flower- Show Schedules " (p. 497). 

 Discussion. — Mr. James Douglas, V.M.H., said he thought it was 

 .mpracticable to limit the amount of money taken by any one exhi- 

 bitor at a small country show, and that the term own foliage " was 

 3ne to be avoided for exhibits of Carnations, owing to the value of the 



