ccxl PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
2. The subjects for the consideration of the Committee are to be delivered at 
the Council Room, South Kensington, not later than 10.30 a.m., so as to be 
entered and ready for examination by 11 o’clock. 
3. The necessary particulars respecting each subject exhibited are to be com¬ 
municated in writing to the Secretary of the Committee. 
Note. —The name and post address of the Exhibitor ; the name of the flower, if a seedling, 
and that of the native country if an importation, will be considered necessary particulars. 
Exhibitors are invited to communicate in writing such further details of the origin and intro¬ 
duction or peculiarities of their flowers as they may think interesting for publication. If 
these are legibly written on cards sent with the plants, it Avill greatly add to the interest 
which will be felt in such exhibition, by the Fellows who attend to inspect the plants at the 
conclusion of the Floral meeting. 
4. The merits of the subjects exhibited shall not be discussed or decided on 
in the presence of the owners, or of persons interested in them. 
5. Sufficient examples of every subject exhibited to enable the Committee to 
form a fair opinion of its qualities must be produced. In all practicable cases, 
the growing plant will be required. Each kind will have to be separately 
entered. 
Note. —Exhibitors of seedling florists’ flowers, and others, will facilitate the "working of 
the Committee by the production of specimens and collections of known varieties to serve as 
references, and for comparison with novelties. 
To save expenses of carriage, and to facilitate exhibitions by amateur growers, cut speci¬ 
mens, if sufficiently ample, will be admissible in cases where the habit of the plant is well 
known, as, for example, in many newly-imported varieties of cultivated species of Orchids. 
6. Ann Seedling Flowers must be named, as a means of future recogni¬ 
tion ; if not named, they will be passed over. 
7. Newly imported, or other new species of plants, not florists’ varieties, 
will have to be submitted to the Botanical Director, that they may be correctly 
named. 
Note. —Exhibitors of this class of plants will greatly facilitate the operations of the Com¬ 
mittee by forwarding, whenever practicable, previous to the days of meeting, materials for 
examination, and it will be regarded as an indispensable condition of their being examined, 
that the countries from which they may have been imported shall be correctly stated. These 
materials are to be sent to the Society's offices, addressed to ‘ The Botanical Director.’ 
8. The Committee will exercise the power of examining with the necessary 
minuteness all subjects submitted for its opinion. 
9. First-Ceass, Second-Class, and Speciae Certificates, and Commenda¬ 
tions will be awarded, at the discretion of the majority of the members 
present, to such of the novelties exhibited as may be thought sufficiently 
deserving. 
10. Medals will be awarded by the Council for subjects recommended by 
the Committee as evincing meritorious cultivation, but which are not exhibited 
as novelties. 
11. All packages of plants or flowers must be addressed to the Secretary to 
the Committee ; they must be delivered Carriage Free, and must be forwarded 
at the risk of the sender. 
12. No award will be made to yearling seedlings of Cinerarias or Pelargo¬ 
niums, nor will any judicial opinion be passed upon their merits ; but they 
may be staged for inspection. 
13. If the subjects, whether plants or cut flowers, are left for the night, it 
will be at the risk of the senders, but all ordinary care will be used to protect 
them from injury. 
14. All plants or flowers sent to the Garden for trial shall be submitted for 
the opinion of the Committee ; and no official opinion on the merits of such 
plants or flowers shall be given by any paid officer of the Society. 
