The following prizes are offered for competition at the next meeting of the Fruit and Floral Committee of the Royal Horticultural Society, on Tuesday, April 6 th, viz.: -

1. White-spined Cucumber, 1 brace, of 1 sort only. Open. £1. - 10s.

2. Black-spined Cucumber, 1 brace, of 1 sort only. Open. £1. - 10s.

3. Smooth Cucumber, 1 brace, of 1 sort only. Open. £1. - 10s.

4. 6 Cucumbers, not confined to one sort. Open. £2__£1.

A new list of the Fellows, Associates, Honorary and Corresponding Members, and Botanical, Horticultural, and Floral Societies, in union, etc, of the Royal Horticultural Society, has just been published, and may be obtained on application at the offices, price Is., or by letter addressed to the secretary, Royal Horticultural Society, South Kensington, W., accompanied by fourteen postage stamps.

[We regret that we must again apologise for postponing many valuable communications. - Ed].

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His Grace the Duke of Buccleuch, K.G., President of the Royal Horticultural Society, has nominated the following gentlemen for Vice-Presidents of the Society for the present year - viz., H.S.H. the Prince of Teck; the Lord Bishop of Winchester; Lieut.-General Hon. C. Grey, F.R.S.; W. Wilson Saunders, F.R.S.

We are informed that the Council of the Royal Horticultural Society have awarded a silver flora medal to Miss Eleanor A. Ormerod, Sedbury Park, Chepstow, in recognition of the assistance she has given to the Society's collection of economic entomology.