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No subscriptions will be solicited ; all already received have been 

 voluntarily given. Dr Robert Hogg, 99 St George's Road, Pimlico, 

 London, S.W., is receiving subscriptions for the purpose. 



A meeting of the subscribers to the Veitch Memorial was held in 

 the Royal Horticultural Society's meeting-room at South Kensington, 

 on the 21st of October, to receive a report of the Central Committee 

 as to the mode in which the money raised should be expended. Alto- 

 gether the sum of £1012, 12s. 9d. had been subscribed; the neces- 

 sary expenses incidental to giving effect to the wishes of the promoters 

 had amounted to £121, 14s. 5d., thus leaving a net amount of £890, 

 18s. 4d. to be expended in furtherance of the special object for which 

 the fund was raised. Many propositions had been made as to the best 

 mode of disposing of the surplus, and of these two were singled out as 

 being the most likely to serve t"he end proposed to be sought — viz., 

 the establishment of certain Veitch Prizes, "to be offered at such ex- 

 hibitions of the leading metropolitan Horticultural Societies in the 

 three kingdoms as the trustees may judge most conducive to the 

 object, the culture of both flowers and fruits being considered ;" and 

 that of adding a Veitch Pensioner to the Gardeners' Royal Benevolent 

 Institution. Although there were many supporters of the last-named 

 proposition, the balance of favour went with the former, and after some 

 discussion it was adopted. The following gentlemen were nominated 

 as trustees, in whose names the money should be invested — viz., George 

 F. Wilson, Esq., F.R.S., the treasurer, and Mr Thomas Moore, the 

 secretary to the fund ; and the following five others as representing 

 the amateur and practical gardeners of the United Kingdom — namely, 

 Mr Harry James Veitch, Dr Robert Hogg, and Mr Zadok Stevens, 

 gardener to the Duke of Sutherland, Trentham, as representing Eng- 

 land j Mr William Thomson, Dalkeith Palace Gardens, as representing 

 Scotland ; and Dr David Moore, of the Glasnevin Botanic Gardens, 

 as representing Ireland. The proposal to provide a portrait of the 

 late Mr Veitch, which was a part of the original programme as one of 

 the leading objects to be attained, had been anticipated by Robert 

 Crawshay, Esq. of Cyfartha Castle, Merthyr-Tidvil, South Wales, who 

 had presented the Veitch Committee with a portrait of the late Mr 

 James Veitch, which had been painted expressly for the purpose ; and 

 this, with the permission of the Council of the Royal Horticultural 

 Society, now finds a resting-place on the walls of the Royal Horticul- 

 tural Society's meeting-room. On many grounds the prize scheme was 

 to be preferred to that which would simply add a pensioner to the list 

 of the Gardeners' Benevolent Institution. The ' Gardeners' Chronicle ' 

 said with much truth that the memory of Mr Veitch would be best 

 honoured " by keeping it prominently before the gardening world as 



