yiii PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
The Council have heard with much pleasure that G. W. 
Burrows, Esq., a Member of the Court of the Worshipful Com¬ 
pany of Gardeners, has most kindly offered, in connection with 
the Society’s 1898 Examination, a Scholarship of £25 a year for 
two years, full particulars of which will be found in the 
Society’s Arrangements for 1898, lately issued to all Fellows. 
Another similar Scholarship has been promised for 1899, by the 
Rt. Hon. the Lord Amherst of Hackney, through the same Wor¬ 
shipful Company. 
Acting in conjunction with the Lindley Trustees, the Council 
have devoted considerable attention to the Library. All serial 
publications have been kept up to date, a large number of 
valuable volumes have been bound, and the following new 
books, amongst others, added to the Library, viz. :—“ The 
Flower Garden of Ornamental Bulbous Plants,” Labouret’s 
“Monographic de la Famille des Cactees,” Sweet’s “Florists’ 
Guide,” “ The Floral Cabinet and Magazine of Exotic Botany,” 
“ The Yew-Trees of Great Britain and Ireland,” &c., &c. 
The hearty thanks of the Society are due to all the Members 
of the Standing Committees, viz. the Scientific, the Fruit and 
Vegetable, the Floral, the Orchid, and the Narcissus Com¬ 
mittees, for the kind and patient attention wdiicli they have 
severally given to their departments. 
A special and very hearty record of thanks is also due to 
N. N. Sherwood, Esq., and to C. J. Grahame, Esq. The former 
gentleman has intimated to the Council his intention of placing 
a Ten Guinea Silver Cup at their disposal annually, and the 
latter has enabled the Council to very largely increase the prizes 
offered for Roses on June 28. 
The best thanks of the Society are also due to all those who, 
either at home or abroad, have so kindly presented books to the 
Library or plants or seeds to the Gardens. A list of the donors 
has been prepared, and will be found in the Society’s Journal , 
vol. xxi., part 8, 1898, which will be issued in March. 
The Council wish to express, in their own name and in that 
of the Fellows of the Society, their great indebtedness to all who 
have so kindly contributed, either by the exhibition of plants, 
fruits, flowers, or vegetables, or by the reading of papers, to the 
success of the fortnightly Meetings in the Drill Hall. They are 
glad to find by the increased and increasing number of visitors 
