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PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
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ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING. 
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At a General Meeting of the Fellows of the Society, on Tuesday, the 23: 
January, Lord Henry Gordon Lennox, M.P., in the Chair, the following cand; 
dates were elected Fellows of the Society :— 
Blenkins, George E., 9 Warwick Square, Pimlico, S.W. 
Borrett, Mrs., 15 Bryanston Square, W. 
Christian, James Stanley, M.D., 1 Tliurloe Place, S.W. 
Craven, Lady Mary, 12 Queen’s Gate Terrace, W. 
Engledue, J, R., 7 Cornwall Gardens, Queen’s Gate, W. 
Eraser, John, Lea Bridge Road, Leyton, Essex. 
Hawkins, Francis Bisset, M.D., E.R.S., 29 Upper Harley Street, WI 
and Lewell Lodge, Dorchester. 
McKerrell, Mrs. Robert, 45 Inverness Terrace, Bays water, W. 
Middleton, Empson Edward, 12 Westbourne Terrace North, W. 
Mosse, George, 3 Clarendon Terrace, South Kensington, W. 
Phillimore, Miss, 4 Norfolk Street, Park Lane, W. 
Ralfs, Samuel, M.D., Turnham Green, W. 
Rowsell, Rev. T. J., 3 Westbourne Square, W. 
Seemann, Berthold, Ph.D., E.L.S., E.R.G.S., 22 Canonbury Square,! 
Islington, N. 
Stansfeld, Mrs., 35 Thurloe Square, S.W. 
Sullivan, Sir Edward, 20 Queen’s Gate Gardens, W. 
Wray, John Copley, 2 Queen’s Gate Place, W. 
The Assistant-Secretary announced a donation of Seeds from the Japanese j 
Commissioner. 
The awards of the Fruit and Floral Committee having been read, the Rev. 
M. J. Berkeley proceeded to explain some of the principal points of the day’s 
exhibition. 
The Chairman having called on Mr. J. Hungerford Pollen to introduce the 
subject announced for this day’s discussion, 
Mr. Pollen addressed the meeting on the artistic arrangement of Flower 
and Fruit Shows. 
The substance of these remarks was as follows:— 
We are assailed on all sides for the ugly rubbishy state in which our exhibi¬ 
tions are arranged, and we are told, as in Dr. Masters’ admirable report of the 
Amsterdam Exhibition, how well these things can be conducted if we only have 
the gift of doing so. 
Well, there seems to be some truth in the accusation, though, as Professor 
Richenbach observes, flowers and fruit are the real objects of shows, and not 
artistic display; still something can and ought to be done if we want to impart 
a general interest to these exhibitions, and to improve the public taste and 
knowledge. 
To go to the point, and try and suggest means for this object, we may gene¬ 
rally consider how Nature deals with her plants and flowers. 
First—By the light she sheds round every object so abundantly. 
Second—By the invariable .armory of leaves or foliage of some kind, in 
large proportion to the colours of the flowers and fruit. 
Third—By the repose which we see on the ground. 
First, then, what is the best place for an exhibition ? An arcade or room is 
suitable for artworks, sculpture, &c., because the delicate play of surface mould¬ 
ings is so brought into fine shadows, but for plants which require light all round 
them, a tent is more natural and better. More light is so admitted, and it is 
delightfully distributed by the medium of the canvass. 
If other countries do some of these things better, no country has produced 
such a tent as that constructed by the lamented Captain Fowke. No show can 
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