CCXXXviii PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
Regulations. 
1. All subjects submitted for judgment must be delivered at the Council 
Room, at South Kensington, not later than 10.30 o'clock a.m. on the days of 
meeting, addressed to the Secretary to the Committee. 
2. When the merits of any article produced by a member of the Committee 
shall be under discussion, such member shall be required to withdraw until the 
Committee shall have made its decision. 
3. When any New Fruit brought before the Committee for an opinion proves 
to be meritorious, the exhibitor shall be requested to fill up for its information 
the Form No. 1 ( see p. 15). 
4. All Fruits sent must be ripe, and in such condition that their qualities may 
be fairly reported on. For competition Fruits, the Form No. 2, accompanying 
this Schedule ( see p. 16), showing the conditions under which the Fruits 
were produced, must be filled up as far as possible. A sufficient sample 
must be sent for tasting, and to admit of a correct description being drawn up. 
5. First-class Certificates will be granted to very superior seedling produc¬ 
tions, recently introduced, or very rare fruits or vegetables. 
6. Special Certificates will be awarded for subjects evincing meritorious 
cultivation, but which are not exhibited as novelties. 
7. All Fruits or Vegetables sent to the Garden for trial shall be submitted for 
the opinion of the Committee ; and no official opinion on the qualities of such 
fruits or vegetables shall be given by any paid officer of the Society. 
8. For the purpose of collecting information as to what kinds of Fruits are 
best adapted for cidtivation under the different conditions of soil, climate, ex¬ 
posure, &c., which occur in different parts of the country, the Committee will, 
from time to time, invite fruit growers to submit to it, on such of its meeting 
days as may be selected for the purpose, certain specified kinds of fruits, or 
collections from particular counties, accompanied by particular information 
respecting them, for which Form No. 2, obtainable on application to the 
Secretary of the Committee, at the Garden, Chiswick, will be provided; or the 
exhibitor may prepare his own schedule in the specified form. 
9. The Committee (or a Sub-Committee deputed for the purpose with a view 
to facilitate the business of the meeting) is to examine and report on the 
qualities of each sample, recordiug its opinion in the second or lower table of 
Form No. 2. The forms when thus filled up to be signed by the Chairman 
on receiving the approval of the meeting, and preserved by being fixed in a 
guard book provided for the purpose. 
10. The Chairmen of Local Committees are ex officio members of the General 
Committee. 
11. The members of Local Committees are each entitled to receive a copy of 
the Proceedings of the Society gratis. 
12. The members of Local Committees who may not be Fellows of the Society 
are admitted to the Garden at Chiswick, and to all purely fruit meetings of the 
Society, without the order of a Fellow of the Society. 
FLORAL COMMITTEE. 
The Floral Committee has been constituted:—(1) To examine and to report 
upon the merits of New Plants and Flowers, whether imported species, decorative 
garden varieties, florists’ varieties, or new plants flowered in the Society’s esta¬ 
blishments. (2) To examine and report upon the varieties of certain flowers, 
specified from year to year, collected and cultivated at Chiswick for that 
purpose. 
These objects the Committee will carry out by holding meetings at South 
Kensington, on the dates mentioned in page 8, for the examination of such 
New Flowers and Plants as may be there submitted to it; by holding meetings 
at Chiswick as required; and by reporting its transactions for pubTcation in 
the Journal or Proceedings of the Society. 
Chairman. —W. Wilson Saunders, F.R.S., Hillfield, Reigate. 
