IRISH GARDENING. 



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New Yearns Notes and Notions. 



ChAMBKU of lloinRULTUKE. 



On, and out, into the unknown of another year ! 

 The h\st provided some prol)lenis, this new gift of 

 time some fresh facts to face, with a few innova- 

 tions worth watching as marking a new departure, 

 prominent among which is the newly constituted 

 Chamber of Horticulture. In response to en- 

 quiries, one of which is :— " Is it a trade organisa- 

 tion, or what is it? '' a brief notice given in the 

 Gardeners' Chronicle of December 21st, 1918, may 

 be aptly quoted; this, and we cannot fail to notice 



" The Chamber is already in request by Govern- 

 ment departments for the purpose of advisory 

 work, and, from the trade point of view, one of 

 the problems to be met is that of competition 

 among official bodies and traders. The setting 

 up of special committees for arlntration and con- 

 ciliation, the estal)lishment of labour conferences, 

 and the drawing up of a broad-minded scheme 

 for dealing with after-war conditions, should tend 

 to the establishment of closer relations between 

 the various sections of the trade, which may be 

 said to be the first and all important aim for 

 which the Chamber of Horticulture has been in- 

 augurated." 



Cypripedium insigne. 



it, is under the heading " Trade Notes," runs : — 

 " The Organising Connuittee of the Chamber of 

 Horticulture lias before it many suggestion? for 

 work, and proposes innnediately to take steps to 

 deal with the important questions of statistics, 

 mechanical cultivators, imports and exports, and 

 the treatment of diseases. These items, by the 

 general consensus of opinion, call for prompt 

 measures, and the Committee will put forward 

 definite details in the near future. 



■' Further su])jects claiming the attention of the 

 Chamber include soil sterilization, treatment of 

 seeds (electrically and otherwise), fuel consump- 

 tion, glass-house con.struction, and cold storage, 

 research work, and the serious questions of trans- 

 port difficulties, are down on the programme of 

 the Committee for prompt treatment. 



We have nothing to add to the above, beyond 

 calling attention to the strong trade taste in the 

 tail, which does much to answer the question 

 prompting the excerpt. 



Royal Horticultural Society of Ireland. 

 Sir John Ross of Bladensburg, K.C.B., who 

 presided at the 89th Annual General Meeting, 

 iDecember 17th, in place of the President, the 

 Marquis of Headfort, unavoidably absent, in 

 moving the adoption of the report, spoke of the 

 war work carried out under the auspices of the 

 Society, viz. : the four years' work of the Irish 

 Branch of the Vegetable Products Committee, the 

 assistance given to the Air Board in securing Irish 

 ash timber for aeroplanes, the question of 

 forestry, now brought under the aegis of the 



