NOTICES TO FELLOWS, 
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(v) Cropping Allotments and Small Gardens. 
(a) List of Hardy Fruits, with Cultivation. 
(c) The Pruning of Fruit Trees. 
(b) The Training of Fruit Trees. 
(d) Keeping Fruit Trees Clean. 
(k) Fruit and Vegetable Bottling and Storing. 
(m) Vegetable Cookery. 
(n) Salads and Salad Making. 
Other Garden Pamphlets : — 
(g) The Herbaceous Garden. 
(h) The Rose Garden. 
(i) Flowers for Small Gardens, Window Boxes, etc. 
(j) Hardy and Half -Hardy Annuals in the Open Air. 
(o) War-time Economy in Gardening. 
(p) Medicinal Plants and their Cultivation, 
(s) Fruit Cultivation under Glass. 
(t) The Pruning of Hardy Shrubs, 
(w) The Children's Garden. 
200,000 of these Pamphlets have been sent out during 191 7, making nearly 
300,000 issued in all. 
20. LIST OF THE MOST DESIRABLE VARIETIES OF 
FRUIT. 
Drawn up by the Fruit Committee. 
Orders for this list may now be given. Its price is 2s. post free. It contains 
nearly 200 pages, and besides the original list drawn up by the Committee, it 
gives lists of varieties recommended by nearly 100 expert growers and gardeners 
all over the country for their respective geographical divisions of Great Britain. 
The list shows the result of a ballot as to which varieties are to be preferred from 
such points of view as vigour of constitution, and for various types of growth and 
cultivation, as, e.g., in the case of Apples — Bush, Standard, Espalier ; Pears — 
Bush, Standard, Espalier, Wall. It also shows the best varieties for cooking as 
distinct from dessert, the best for markets, and much similar detailed information 
which must prove of great help in these days when the planting of more fruits 
as well as of more vegetables is so widely recognized as being of urgent necessity. 
21. FRUIT BOTTLING FOR COTTAGERS. 
A leaflet for the use of cottagers and small householders, on Fruit Bottling, 
has been prepared by the Secretary for free circulation. It can be had on appli- 
cation to the R.H.S. Office, Vincent Square, Westminster, S.W. 1, accompanied 
by a halfpenny stamped and addressed envelope. Owing to shortness of staff, 
any application not thus made cannot receive attention. 
22. BOOK ON FRUIT AND VEGETABLE BOTTLING. 
Fellows of the Society have shown exceptional interest in the long series of 
lectures given during this year at the Fortnightly Meetings by Mr. and Mrs. 
Vincent Banks on Fruit and Vegetable Bottling, who have now, in response to 
many requests, prepared a book on the subject. The Council, recognizing the 
value of the information it contains, and the demand for instruction of this kind, 
have published it. It contains the most up-to-date information on the subject 
and is most practical. It deals not only with the Bottling of both Fruits and Vege- 
tables, but also with the making of Jam, and the pulping of Fruit to be made 
into Jam later on, when sugar supplies are more abundant than they are just now. 
There are also many useful household recipes, and all the information given is the 
result of the actual experience of the authors extending over a long number of 
years. Mr. and Mrs. Banks' exhibits of Bottled Fruits at the Society's Meetings 
are. well known to the Fellows for their excellence. The price of the book, which 
may be obtained from the R.H.S., Vincent Square, London, S.W. 1, is is., post 
paid 15. 2d. ; bound in stiff paper covers. 
The 1 01 8 Edition contains a Supplement on Drying and Canning, 
