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National Rose Society. 

 Honour fob Mr. George Dickson, V..M.II. 



The thirty-sixth annual meeting of the 

 National Rose Society was held in the Eolborn 

 Restaurant, London, on Tuesday, December IT1I1. 

 when there was a large attendance of members. 



After iIh- reading of the annual reporl and 

 the usual routine business, Mr. Prank Cant, 

 .Mayor of Colchester, seconded bj Rev. P. Page 

 Roberts, moved that the " Dean Hole"' 

 Memorial Medal be awarded to Mr. George 

 Dickson, V.M.H., of Newtownards, who had 

 done as much or more than any other man 

 during the last thirty years to introduce new 

 Roses. Mr. Cant said there was no greater 

 honour t he Son. 'I \ could confer, and the proposal 

 was carried unanimously, and with great hearti- 

 ness. 



The new recipient of the Hole Medal mow in 

 his Slsl \ ear) is the veteran head of the Dicksons 

 of Newtownards, who have done so much to 

 beautify the gardens of the world with Roses 

 of colourings and varieties which were only 

 indeed visionary twenty-live orthirty years • 



We congratulate Mr. Dickson on this additional 

 honour, he having been awarded some years 

 ago the Victorian .Medal by the Royal Horticul- 

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