Report of Society's Meetings. 171 
Mr. L. M. Hill was voted to the chair, till the arrival 
of the President. 
The following report from Mr. J. J. Quelch, Hon. 
Secretary of the Committee of Correspondence, on the 
last Horticultural Show was read : — 
The Committee of Correspondence have the honour 
to report that the Seventh Annual Horticultural and 
Poultry Show, which was kindly opened by Lady Sendall 
(in the regrettable absence of the Governor through 
illness), passed off successfully on the 17th and i8th 
August. The general arrangements, though much ex- 
tended on account of the greatly increased number of 
exhibits, were on the same lines as last year, and as on 
that occasion, were altogether satisfa6lory. It must be 
stated, however, that the enormous increase in the num- 
ber of exhibits has shewn the necessity of closing the 
time of entry earlier. In the first few Shows when the 
exhibits amounted to but a few hundreds, it was possible 
to receive entries even on the day of the Show, but as 
the number increased the time had to be limited — no 
entries being received on the opening day ; and then, as 
in tlte last three Shows, no entries were received on the 
day before, that day being reserved entirely for receiving 
and arranging exhibits. Now that nearly four thousand 
exhibits have to be reckoned with, it is advisable that 
the entry time be still further restricted, and that it 
should close two clear days before the Show, A large 
proportion of the entries are made pra6lically at the last 
moment in the form of long lists, and under present 
conditions not only is there not sufficient time in which 
to enter up the books, and to issue the necessary exhi- 
bition cards, but there is no opportunity of providing 
the requisite accommodation except in an altogether 
unsatisfactory manner — a state of things that not only 
entails greater outlay, but also a certain degree of con- 
fusion which would be altogether remedied by a second 
day being reserved like the day before the Show. 
It might be thought on first consideration that the 
limitation of the time of entry might militate against the 
