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THE GABDENEBS' CHBONICLE. 



[July 21, 1888. 



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APPOINTMENTS FOR THE ENSUING WEEK. 



MEETING. 



( Royal Horticultural Society : Scien- 

 TCESDAY, July 24-J tifio, Fruit, and Floral Commit- 



( tees. 



SHOWS. 



/Carnation and Picotee Society 



J (Southern Section), iu connection 

 TUESDAY, July 24< with the Royal Horticultural 



I Society. 



VTibshelf. 

 THURSDAY, July 26— Trenthom. 



SALES- 

 MONDAY, July 2si Im P 0Tt ? i . S" chiis - at Frotheroe & 

 , uo,i *u-j Morns' Rooms. 



/"Second portion of the Downside Col- 

 TUESDAY, July 24-' 



lection of Orchids, on the pre- 

 mises, at Leatherhead, by Messrs. 

 Protheroe & Morris (four days). 



The heartiest congratulations are 

 ^rph"a a nFund S . due to the gardeners of this 

 country, and the warmest thanks 

 of the community are due to the officers and 

 committee of the Gardeners' Orphan Fund, on 

 the occasion of the first annual meeting held on 

 Friday last, July 13. Suggested by Mr. Penny, 

 Mr. Clayton, and one or two other gardeners, 

 as an appropriate means of celebrating the 

 Jubilee of Her Majesty, the idea was at once 

 warmly taken up by the great body of gardeners, 

 and zealously and efficiently worked out by the 

 committee and the local secretaries. 



Where every one who took part may fairly 

 indulge in some complacency at the happy result 

 already attained it is not necessary to specify 

 individuals. The work has been done by the 

 gardening community for a purpose than which 

 nothing can be more meritorious, and the best 

 return they can experience lies in the conscious- 

 ness of real distress alleviated, real good achieved. 

 No one, a twelvemonth ago, could have foreseen 

 how admirably the gardeners would have pulled 

 together, or could have dared to hope that at the 

 very first election it was found possible to place 

 on the list the whole of the available candidates, 

 ten in number. What this means in the mitigation 

 of sorrow and the relief of need may be readily 

 imagined. What this means as an evidence of 

 co-operation on the part of the gardeners is a 

 subjeot of great and hopeful significance. 



At the same time the sense of responsibility 

 entailed must needs be deep, but if met in the 

 same spirit with which it has been incurred, we 

 do not think any anxiety may be felt in th e 



future. The gardeners and those connected 

 with them have but to continue to put out their 

 collective strength, and success in the future 

 will grow in proportion to the needs of the case. 



The report of the committee and the balance- 

 sheet are probably in the hands of every reader 

 of this journal, so that it is not necessary to 

 reprint them here. The first annual meeting 

 was well attended by the gardeners. The Chair- 

 man of the committee, Mr. G. Deal — to whose 

 business tact, unfiagging industry, and genial 

 manner, the Institution owes so much — com- 

 mented on the report, and explained the several 

 items on each side of the balance-sheet. He 

 thanked all those who had lent a hand in the 

 good work — and this may be said to include not 

 only individuals but all the public bodies and 

 institutions connected with horticulture, not for- 

 getting the " Market Men " and the ever-popular 

 Superintendent of the Royal Horticultural So- 

 ciety's Garden at Chiswick, who has acted as 

 Honorary Secretary. 



Mr. H. Veitch commented on the fact that 

 the accounts had been audited by a professional 

 accountant, and expressed his satisfaction that 

 the expenses of starting the Institution and 

 making it widely known had been relatively very 

 small. Needless to say, the report was received 

 with acclamation. 



Some formal business, such as the reorganisa- 

 tion of the Committee and the appointment of 

 officers was then transacted, and after some dis- 

 cussion it was arranged, as we have already said, 

 that not only the six selected but all ten of the 

 candidates were placed on the list. The names 

 of these fortunate recipients of the gardeners' 

 bounty are as follows : — 



Emily Mabel Hyde 245 votes. 



Alfred Swanborough 171 ,, 



Albert Lacey 166 ,, 



Emily Smith 153 ,, 



Ralph Joseph Gardiner 131 ,, 



Victor Spyers 88 „ 



Albert Edward Be3t 80 ,, 



William Samuel Stannard 75 ,, 



Ethel Staples 29 „ 



George Smith 21 ,, 



We may here interpolate that we have 

 received letters from the friends of some of the 

 candidates expressive of their gratitude to the 

 subscribers. 



After all this work was got through — and it 

 was by no means light — the members had fairly 

 earned their dinner. 



And here another great success was achieved. 

 The large room at the Cannon Street Hotel was 

 filled mainly with gardeners and representatives 

 of all departments of horticulture, about 200 

 sitting down to a dinner as remarkable for its 

 success as for the happy innovations that were 

 introduced into it. The guests were all in full 

 sympathy with the objects of the Institution, 

 and on the best of terms with each other. 

 The catering was good, and reflected credit on 

 the Manager, Mr. J. A. Berther, and the pro- 

 ceedings were enlivened by the singing of Miss 

 Marie Belt at, and some of her friends, who 

 gave their services, and whose kindness was 

 acknowledged by the presentation to each of the 

 lady singers of a handsome bouquet. 



The speeches formed another welcome variation 

 from the ordinary pattern. Assuredly they 

 were of a considerably higher and better type 

 than ordinary after-dinner speeches, and show 

 that some gardeners can use their tongue as well 

 as they wield the pruning knife. Far from being 

 conventional, wordy and discursive they were 

 earnest, significant and straight to the point. 



Sir Julian Goldsmid once more proved what 

 an excellent Chairman the Institution has secured, 



and the whole affair was like a family party 

 wherein each endeavours to be agreeable to each 

 other and in which the prominent features were 

 sympathy and good fellowship cheered by success 

 and hallowed by the sense of rendering present 

 help to the helpless, and by determination to con- 

 tinue stedfastly in the good work so auspiciously 

 entered upon. 



Royal Horticultural Society.— The next 



meeting in the Drill Hall, James Street, West- 

 minster, will be held in conjunction with that of the 

 National Carnation and Picotee Society on the 24th 

 iust. The exhibits will also comprise Ferns, Sela- 

 ginellas, Ivy and zonal Pelargoniums, &c. — A meet- 

 ing of the Fruit and Vegetable Committee was held at 

 Chiswick, on July 9. Present : — T. F. Rivers, Esq., 

 in the chair ; Messrs. Lee, Wright, Burnett, Willard, 

 Howe, Smith, Crowley, Cheal, Saltmarsh, and 

 Warren. The collection of autumn sown Cabbages, 

 numbering forty, were inspected, First-class Certifi- 

 cates being awarded to Express, from Vilmorin & Co., 

 an early selected form of the Early Etampes ; and to 

 Ellam's Dwarf Early (Veitch & Sons) ; Myatt's Early 

 Market (Watkin's & Simpson) ; Early Rainham; 

 Heartwell and Cocoa-nut were approved as good stocks. 

 Strawberries were next inspected, and First-class 

 Certificates awarded to King of theEarlies (Laxton), 

 Noble (Laxton), Countess, and Lucas. Dr. Morere 

 was approved as a large handsome sort, also Sir 

 Harry, Souvenir de Kieff, and Waterloo. Early Peas 

 were inspected, the earliest types being Carter's 

 Lightning and Veitch's Selected Early, closely fol- 

 lowed by Horsford's Free Trade and Canary Bird ; 

 selected forms of Kentish Invicta, William I., and 

 Dr. Hogg, of the same earliness, were much 

 approved ; and Gradus (Laxton), certificated last 

 year, well maintained its reputation as a large early 

 extremely handsome variety. 



Fruit CROPS. — We hope to publish in our next 

 Number the reports on the condition of the fruit 

 crops throughout the country, to be followed shortly 

 afterwards by a number of remarks on the same, 

 obligingly supplied by our correspondents. 



Mr. E. R. CUTLER,— We are pleased to be able 

 to report that the zealous Secretary to the Gardeners' 

 Royal Benevolent Institution is progressing favour- 

 ably, and that hopes are entertained that he may be 

 able to resume his duties in the course of a week or 

 two. 



PEOPLE'S PALACE. — We are desired by the 

 Chairman of the above Institute, Sir E. Hay Currie, 

 Bart., to state that the show previously announced 

 to take place on August 6 and 7, will not be held. 



Northern Field Clubs' Conference.— 



The first Conference of representatives of the 

 Northern Field Clubs was held at Huntly, Aberdeen- 

 shire, on Friday and Saturday, the 13th and 14th 

 inst. There was a good attendance, delegates being 

 present from Aberdeen, Inverness, Nairn, Elgin, 

 Banff, Keith, &c. At the opening meeting, which 

 was largely attended, Professor J. W. H. Trail (Pro- 

 fessor of Botany, Aberdeen University) occupied the 

 chair, advocating the claims of the various societies, 

 and sketching the work done by them. The Con- 

 ference was addressed on many other subjects on 

 Friday, and Saturday was devoted to excursions to 

 various places of interest in the neighbourhood. The 

 several leaders of the excursions read papers on the 

 districts visited. 



Allium NARCISSIFLORUM — This seems to be 

 the proper name for the plant certificated on Tues- 

 day last week under the name of A. pedemontanum. 

 In the Botanical Magazine, t. 6182, A. grandiflorum, 

 pedemontanum, nigrum, and roseum, are given 

 as synonyms of A. narcissiHorum, but the plant 

 figured at the above tab. is said to be A. insubricum 

 (Boiss. and Reut.), a new name given, we believe, 

 because the name pedemontanum had been several 



