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Dr. Masters: When I had the honour of opening this Conference 
yesterday I told you we were about to discuss a most important subject. 
I am sure you will agree with me that I was right. I told you also there 
were a great many difficulties and knotty problems. We have taken a 
survey of a wide field to-day and yesterday, and have even ended by con- 
sidering trade rights and patent rights and copyrights. I think the out- 
come of our Conference is this: There are difficulties to be solved. There 
is a difficulty in reconciling the practical man and the purely scientific 
man. But I would ask of all present whether we have not solved it. 
They have only got to ‘“cross,’’ and all our difficulties will be solved. 
Mr. Wiuuet M. Hays, U.S.A.: I do not know that there are others 
here who represent experimental stations, but I believe the time has come 
in America, and will come in other countries, when the experimental 
station shall take up this question of the sending out of new plants as one 
of their duties. The originator then will get a chance of having his 
creations placed before people at a proper remuneration to himself. 
I should like to ask whether we are going to continue the delightful dis- 
cussions of the last two days at some future time and at some other place. 
Are you going to France next year, or will you come over to America ? 
I feel a little delicate about suggesting these things, but if you would 
come to us I would promise you a right-down hearty welcome. 
The CHarrMAN: With reference to the subject opened by Mr. 
Engleheart, I have not a word to say, being a scientist pure and simple. I 
see the difficulties, although perhaps Mr. Bunyard’s suggestion may settle 
it. When you start a new plant and spread it about in the country it 
very often changes its characteristics slightly in different localities, and 
if propagated from that locality it would not be exactly the same plant as 
that from which you started. How far you would be able to guarantee 
the same form, or to prevent the distribution of the slightly different local 
form, it would be difficult to say. Before concluding, I think we must 
thank those gentlemen, especially those foreigners who have come so 
long a distance to help us, for the interesting papers they have given us. 
When we get the papers printed in our Journal we shall be able to 
study them at our leisure. How far it will be desirable or practicable to 
carry out a Conference in another country—whether in Germany, France, 
or America—it is impossible for me to say at the present time; but it is 
a suggestion worth thinking about. I beg to thank you all in the name 
of the Royal Horticultural Society. 
