CCX PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
Garden at Wisley on a somewhat extensive scale. The idea is to obtain 
the best possible positions and soils for the different plants to grow in, 
the growth and well-being of the plants being considered to be 
of greater importance than the artistic effect of the rockwork. 
In a Horticultural Society's Garden every single detail should 
teach something, so that Fellows visiting it may be able to take 
away an idea of how best to do this or that, or where best to plant 
this or that. 
9. STUDENTS AT WISLEY. 
The Society admits young men, between the ages of sixteen and 
twenty-two years, to study Gardening at Wisley. The curriculum 
includes not only practical garden work in all the main branches of 
Gardening, but also Lectures, Demonstrations, and Horticultural 
Science in the Laboratory, whereby a practical knowledge of Garden 
Chemistry, Biology, &c, may be obtained. 
10. DISTRIBUTION OF SURPLUS PLANTS. 
A few years ago the Council drew attention to the way in which 
the annual distribution of surplus plants has arisen. In a large garden 
there must always be a great deal of surplus stock, which must either 
be given away or go to the waste-heap. A few Fellows, noticing this, 
asked for plants which would otherwise be discarded ; and they valued 
what was so obtained. Others hearing of it asked for a share, until the 
Council felt they must either systematize this haphazard distribution 
or else put a stop to it altogether. To take the latter step seemed 
undesirable. Why should not such Fellows have them as cared to 
receive such surplus plants ? It was, therefore, decided to keep all 
plants till the early spring, and then give all Fellows alike the option of 
claiming a share of them by Ballot. 
Fellows are, therefore, particularly requested to notice that only 
waste and surplus plants raised from seeds or cuttings are available for 
distribution. 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 Applica- 
tion 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 I. 
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 
