VI 



IRISH GARDENING. 



Royal Horticultural Society of 

 Ireland. 



The monthly meeting of the Comicil was held at 

 the offices, 5 Molesworth Street, Duhlin, on the 

 14th ult., the Marquis of Headfort, President, pre- 

 siding. A letter was read from Viscount Iveagh. 

 K.P., granting the use of the stable yard, 80 St. 

 Stephen's Green (entrance by Earlsfort Terrace), 

 for the sunnner show, Thursday July 11th, a vote 

 of thanks being unanimously passed to Lord 

 Iveagh for the privilege. Judges were nomi- 

 nated for the show, which will be a private exhibi- 

 tion for members and friends, admission by ticket 

 only. Lord Headfort intimated he would give an 

 annual c\ip, which was gratefully accepted and 

 decided to offer to the trade for the most effective 

 group of hardy plants staged on a space not ex- 

 ceeding oO feet by 6 feet in depth at its widest 

 part, special ijoints to be given to the group con- 

 taining the most interesting and decorative hardy 

 plants, and method of staging being adopted, with 

 liberty to vary the outline but to be confined in 

 the above space limits. Over and above the prize 

 classes, honorary awards will be made to forestry 

 exhibits of merit showing objects of interest con- 

 nected with the subject. A vote of thanks was 

 passed to Mr. John Howard Parnell, Sion House, 

 Glenageary, for a dish of ripe Peaches grown in 

 a cold house from a seedling tree raised by him 

 from varieties he formerly grew in Alabama and 

 Georgia, U.S.A., for the New York markets. The 

 Peach in question is rather below medium size, 

 of good colour and high flavour, with acutely 

 acuminate leaves eight inches long, bearing kid- 

 ney shaped glands. The following, proposed by 

 the Marquis of Headfort were elected members of 

 the society, viz. :— Sir. Thomas Stafford, Bart., 

 Rockingham, Boyle; Ijtidy Byrne, Rathfarnham ; 

 Percy I^a Touche, Esq., D.L., Harristown, 

 Brannockstown, Co. Kildare; l^ord Dunraven, 

 Adare Manor l>imerick; W. G. R. Tisdall, Esq., 

 Charlesfort, Kells, Meath ; Mrs. G. H. Fowler, 

 Eureka, Kells, Meath; Lady Millbanke, Mulla- 

 boden, Ballymore-Eustace, Co. Kildare. It was 

 decided to hold the next Council Meeting July 5th. 



R.H.S. War Horticultural Relief Fund 



The Committee of the Royal Horticultural 

 Society's Relief Fund is renewing its appeal for 

 money to restore the gardens, orchards and small- 



holdings of our Allies devastated by the German 

 invasion. A very large sum will be required to 

 carry out this work, as it means the re-instate- 

 ment of the horticultural industries upon which 

 millions of Belgian, French and Serbian peasants 

 depend for a livelihood. 



The food problem will not cease with the war, 

 and when Belgium and France are again able to 

 supply us with large quantities of fruit and veget- 

 ables " it will help to ease our own difficulties. 

 Thus in helping them we shall also be helping our 

 own country. 



In the recent German advance on tiie Somme 

 the Picardy orchards, damaged in 1916 by the re- 

 treating Germans, but partially restored in 1917 

 by skilful grafting, have again been desolated, 

 and that work of restoration must be undertaken 

 anew. An illustrated booklet entitled " Battle- 

 Scarred Wastes," has just been published by the 

 Executive Committee of the Fund, from its Head- 

 quarters, 17 Victoria Street, Westminster, S.W.I, 

 and may be had on application to the Organising 

 Secretary. 



Trial of Herbaceous Paeonies at 

 Wisley, 19ia 



The following awards have been made by the 

 Council of the Royal Horticultural Society to 

 Herbaceous Pseonies after trial at Wisley : — 



Amird nf Merit.— ^o. 124, delieatum, sent by 

 Messrs. Forbes. Nos. 85, 94, Duchesse de Nemours 

 (No. 85 sent in as alba superba), both sent by 

 Messrs. Ware. Nos. 90, 114 * f estiva maxima, sent 

 by Messrs. Ware and Messrs. Kelway. No. 106, 

 Lady A. Duff, sent by Messrs. Kelway. 



Hicihl)/ CniinnoKln]. — No. 4, Dawn, sent by 

 Messrs. Barr. No. 145, L'Elegante, sent by Messrs 

 Ware. No. 69, Marshall Oyama, sent by Messrs. 

 Bath. No. 81, Mme. Crousse, sent by Messrs. 

 Bath. Nos. 129, 130, Mons. Chas. Leveque (syn. 

 FMlle. Leonie Calot), sent by Messrs Bath and 

 Messrs. Ware. No. 49, The Marquis, sent by 

 Messrs. Kelway No. 147, Virginie, sent by Messrs. 

 Bath. 



Connncitilcil . — No. 22, Pride of Langport, sent 

 by Messrs. Kelway. No. 40, Roseen, sent by 

 Messrs. Kelway. 



* Note — Xo. 114 was sent in as Hon. Mrs. Portmaii. 



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