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PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY'. 
Scientific Horticulture. 
The following resolutions were passed at a recent meeting of the Council. 
Further information will be communicated in the next number of the “ Pro¬ 
ceedings.” 
1. The Fruit and Floral Committees of the Royal Horticultural Society have 
for their objects the encouragement of the production of new and improved 
varieties of fruits and vegetables, plants and flowers, and the examination of 
the pomological and floral subj ects submitted at the meetings, or grown in the 
Society’s Garden, at Chiswick; and these committees have dealt with the 
results of Horticultural practice brought under their notice in a manner which 
leaves little to be desired. The Fruit Committee have also disseminated 
reliable information respecting the adaptability of particular kinds of fruits to 
the varied conditions of soil, locality, &c., throughout the United Kingdom. 
2. At the general meetings of the Society, the objects of scientific interest 
which have appeared before the Fruit and Floral Committee meetings, together 
with other points bearing on physiology and the culture of plants and trees, 
have been regularly brought forward and occasionally discussed. 
3. The Council now consider it advisable to invite the co-operation of 
physiological botanists and of chemists in the formation of a Committee, whose 
special functions shall be to promote and encourage the application of physiology 
and botany to purposes of practical culture, whether of plants, or trees and 
shrubs, and to originate experiments which may assist in the elucidation of 
such questions. 
4. The Committee shall consist of a chairman, who shall be a member of 
Council, three vice-chairmen, and any number of gentlemen, whether Fellows 
or not, interested in vegetable plrysiology and horticultural chemistry. The 
three Horticultural Directors are to be considered ex-ofiicio members of the 
Committee. 
5. The Committee shall sit on the days fixed for the general meetings of the 
Society, or at such times and places as may be found convenient. 
6. The foregoing resolutions shall, as a preliminary step, be communicated 
to botanists, physiologists and chemists of distinction, with a request for their 
co-operation as members of the Committee, or as corresponding members. 
Examination of Gardeners. 
The Council, on the report of the Examiners of the Society, have much 
pleasure in announcing the result of the examination on 17th December 
last, and the following certificates have been conferred :— 
Fruit and Vege¬ 
table Culture 
Floriculture 
Certifi- 
No of 
Certifi- 
No of 
cates 
Marks 
cates 
Marks 
W. Spinks . . ^ 
1st 
1225 
1st 
1080 
D. Wynne 
1st 
1135 
1st 
1070 
F. Hardesty 
F. W. Burbridge 
- Chiswick Students 
ex. 2nd 
ex. 2nd 
975 
960 
2nd 
1st 
830 
1070 
W. Stewart 
2nd 
845 
2nd 
740 
J. McArdle . . J 
2nd 
795 
2nd 
770 
M. Middleton, R. Gardens, Kew, W. 
3rd 
590 
2nd 
675 
R. Inglis, R. Gardens, Kew, W. 
3rd 
525 
— 
A. Stormont, R. Gardens, Kew, W. . 
J. J. Bull, R. Botanic Society, Regent’s 
ex. 2nd 
1085 
2nd 
860 
Park, N.W. 
• • • • 
— 
455 
1st 
950 
J. H. Hart, Benham Park, Newbury . 
C. Roberts, Eridge Castle Gardens, Tun- 
3rd 
580 
1st 
10S0 
bridge Wells 
• • • • 
2nd 
750 
1st 
1020 
A. Bradley, Court Yard, Eltham, Kent 
ex. 2nd 
1080 
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_ 
R. L. Keenan, R. Gardens, Kew, W. 
J. Williamson, 10 Clayton Street, Kenning- 
ex. 2nd 
1005 
1st 
1080 
ton Park 
• • • • 
— 
190 
2nd 
700 
