May 25, 1912. J 



THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 



[supplement.] 



111. 



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He is the editor of the London Catalogue 

 of British Plants ; and, in collaboration 

 with his friend, the Rev. E. S. Marshall, 

 has published the Flora of Kent. 

 has a collection of dried British plants, 

 which contains some 70,000 sheets, and he 

 has also a large and complete collection 

 of British Lepidoptera. 



Mr. Hanbury is a member of the Orchid 

 Committee of the Royal Horticultural 

 Society, and has a fine collection of 

 Orchids at his residence, Brockhurst, East 

 Grinstead. The late Sir Thomas Han- 

 bury, K.C.V.O., who presented the Wisley 

 gardens to the Royal Horticultural So- 

 ciety, was Mr. Hanbury' s cousin. 



James Hudson, V.M.H. (Director, Honor- 

 ary Secretary of Schedule Committee, 

 and Member of Spacing Committee). 



Mr. Hudson's name has become familiar 



He is the senior partner in the firm of 

 H. B. May & Sons, Dyson's Lane, Upper 

 Edmonton, so famous for their unrivalled 

 collection of British and exotic Ferns and 

 miscellaneous decorative plants. Few of 

 those who were concerned in the organiz- 

 ing of the International Exhibition have 

 done more work than Mr. May, whose 

 position as Chairman of the Show and Site 

 Committee has necessitated repeated 



to all in any way 

 horticultural world, by reason 

 long services and successful career as 

 gardener to Leopold de Rothschild, at 

 Gunnersbury House. Mr. Hudson was 



of the first to receive the Victoria 



He is a member of the 



Horticultural 



visits to the Chelsea grounds. 



C. G. A. Nix (Director). 



Mr. Nix is a very clever amateur gar- 

 dener, and his fine gardens at Tilgate 

 Forest Lodge, Crawley, show a high 

 standard of excellence in fruit culture. He 

 is Vice-chairman of the Fruit and Vege- 

 table Committee of the Royal Horticul- 

 tural Society. Mr. Nix has especially 

 interested himself, in connection with the 

 connected with the Exhibition, in making known the objects 



French Academy, and " Officier de la 

 Legion d'honneur." He is also a Knight 

 of the Order of St. John, Knight-Com- 

 mander of the Crown of Italy and of Leo- 

 pold of Belgium, and Elder Brother of 

 Trinity House. 



§ Besides being a Director of the Exhibi- 

 tion, Sir Albert Rollit has been Chairman 

 of the Reception Committee. 



He was formerly President of the Botanic 

 Gardens, Hull, where he is said to have 



opened the first Chrysanthemum show held 

 in this country. 



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N. N. Sherwood, V.M.H. (Director and 

 Member of Finance Committee). 



Mr. Sherwood is the principal partner in 

 the firm of Messrs. Hurst & Son, seedsmen, 

 Houndsditch, London, and it is largely 

 to his efforts that the world-wide reputa- 

 tion of the firm is due. 



He is a Trustee of the Gardeners' Royal 



of his of the Show to all the gardeners' societies Benevolent Institution, and this, in corn- 

 throughout the kingdom, a work the im- mon with the other gardening charities, has 



one 



Medal of Honour. 



Council of the 



Society. 



Royal 



portance of which all will appreciate. 

 George Paul, J. P., V.M.H. (Director, 



and Member of Schedule and Show 

 and Site Committees). 



Mr. Paul is the head of the firm of Paul 

 & Son, the Old Nurseries, Cheshunt. He 



been substantially benefited by his liberal 

 and sympathetic help. In 1911 Mr. Sher- 

 wood presided at the annual festival dinner 

 of the Royal Gardeners' Orphan Fund, 

 when the donations amounted to a greater 

 sum than on any previous occasion. 



A. G. Jackman (Director, and Member of is Vice-chairman of the Floral Committee Abthur W. Sutton, V.M.H. (Director). 



the Show and Site Committee). 



Mr. Jackman is the senior partner in 

 the firm of George Jackman and Son, 

 Woking, one of the oldest nurseries in 

 Great Britain. The firm is chiefly cele- 

 brated for many fine introductions of 

 Clematis, Roses, and hardy ornamental 

 trees and shrubs. Mr. Jackman is an en- 

 thusiastic horticulturist, and a skilled 

 landscape gardener. 



Andrew Kingsmill ((Director, and Mem- 

 ber of Finance Committee). 



During the course of an active City 

 life, gardening has always been Mr. Kings- 

 mill's favourite hobby, and since his 

 retirement his beautiful gardens at the 

 Holt, Harrow Weald, have become 

 famous. Experts from all parts of the 

 country are attracted to the splendid dis- 

 play of Narcissus and other bulbs which is 

 always to be seen in the spring. Mr. 

 Kingsmill is a member of the Narcissus 

 Committee of the Royal Horticultural 

 Society, and is a keen judge of the merits 

 of these popular flowers. 



A. Mackellar, V.M.H. (Director, and 

 Member of the Show and Site Com- 



of the Royal Horticultural Society, and 

 has upwards of 60 years' experience in 

 horticulture. He is an enthusiastic spe- 

 cialist in Roses, trees and shrubs. 



Mr. Paul has taken part in all the great 

 exhibitions of his time, and few people are 

 so well fitted as he to give advice on the 

 subject of the arrangements for an Inter- 

 national Show. 



C. Harman Payne (Director, Honorary 



Mr. Arthur Sutton is a partner in 

 firm of Sutton & Sons, Reading. He 

 always taken a personal interest in 



the 

 has 

 the 



trials of vegetables and flowers, and has 

 made important experiments in the breed- 

 ing of plants. The results of his experi- 

 mental work have been published in the 



Journal of the 



Horticultural 



Royal 



Society, the Proceedings of the Linnean 



In narticu- 



Society, 

 lar Mr. 



and other journals. 

 Sutton has done valuable 



work 



Foreign Press Secretary, and Member in tracing the wild types of garden plants. 



of the Show and Site Committee). 

 For nearly a quarter of a century Mr. 



Mr. Sutton is amongst the best friends of 

 the gardening charities. 



Payne has acted as foreign corresponding Arthur Turner (Director and Member of 



secretary for the National Chrysanthemum 

 Society. He is a contributor to English, 

 French, American and Belgian horticul- 

 tural journals, and a well-known figure at 

 the French shows. 



Mr. Payne is an Officier du Merite 

 Agricole. 



Hon 



R. Hooper Pearson (Director, 



General Press Secretary, and Mem- 

 ber of Advisory Committee). 



Mr. Pearson is managing editor of the 

 Gardeners' Chronicle. He is also the 

 editor of the series of books known as 

 Present-Bay Gardening ; Honorary Secre- 

 tary of the Horticultural Club; and a 

 member of the Floral and Scientific Com- 

 mittees of the Royal Horticultural 

 Society. 



He has officiated as judge at horticul- 

 tural shows in Germany, Holland, France, 

 and Belgium. 



T. A. H. Rivers (Director, and Member of 

 the Show and Site Committee). 



Mr. Rivers, of the firm of Thos. Rivers 

 <fe Sons, Sawbridgeworth, has long been 

 well known in the world of horticulture, 

 member of the Fruit and Vegetable Com- His firm makes a speciality of fruit trees, 

 mittee of the Royal Horticultural Society- Roses, Vines, Figs, Oranges, and orchard- 



mittee). 



Mr. Mackellar was for some years 

 gardener at Floors Castle, and was ap- 

 pointed subsequently to the direction of 

 the Royal Gardens at Sandringham. He 

 remodelled the Sandringham Gardens, 

 and, under his supervision, new plant and 

 fruit houses were built. On the accession 

 of King Edward, Mr. Mackellar was trans- 

 ferred to Windsor Castle Gardens, and 

 there, since his appointment, wonderful 

 improvements, which testify eloquently to 

 his skill, have been effected in every 

 branch of gardening. Mr. Mackellar is a 



Henry B. May, V.M.H. (Director, and 

 Member of the Show and Site, Spac- 

 ing, and Advisory Committees). 



Mr. May is a member of the Council of 

 the Royal Horticultural Society, and ioint- 

 Chairman of the Floral Committee v He is 

 Chairman of the Executive Committee of 

 the Royal Gardeners' Orphan Fund, which 

 position he has held for the past 13 years. 



house trees. 



Sir Albert Kaye Rollit, LL.D., D.C.L., 



Litt.D. (Director and Member of Ad- 

 visory Committee and Show and Site 

 Committee). 



Sir Albert Rollit is a member of the 

 Council of the Royal Horticultural Society, 

 and President of the National Chrysanthe- 

 mum Society. He is a member of the 



the Schedule Committee.) 



Mr. Turner is a member of the Floral 

 Committee of the Royal Horticultural 

 Society, and is principal of Mr. Chas. 

 Turner's Royal Nurseries, at Slough, in 

 Buckinghamshire. 



Trained from his early years in a large 

 nursery, he has had life-long experience in 

 the cultivation of plants, and especially of 

 Roses, Pelargoniums, Auriculas, Carna- 

 tions, and other florists' flowers. 



Harry J. Veitch, V.M.H. (Director, 



Chairman of Schedule Committee, and 

 Member of Advisory and Show and 

 Site Committees). 



Mr. Veitch is the managing director of 

 the firm of Messrs. James Veitch & Sons, 

 Ltd. He has been for many years a mem- 

 ber of the Council of the Royal Horticul- 

 tural Society, and is also Vice-chairman of 

 the Orchid Committee. 



The Gardeners' Royal Benevolent In- 

 stitution, of which he is Chairman and 

 Treasurer, owes more to his untiring 

 efforts than to those of any other of its 

 supporters. It is not easy to summarise 

 the enormous^ amount of work he has 

 done for horticulture ; and although he 

 has received the Ordre de Leopold and 

 many other distinctions, his devotion to 

 the cause of horticulture deserves acknow- 

 ledgment by yet higher honours. 



Mr. Veitch has thrown himself, heart and 

 soul, into the preparations for the Inter- 

 national Exhibition. He is a Director, 

 member of the Advisory Committee, 

 Chairman of the Committee responsible 

 for drawing up the Schedule and selecting 

 the Judges, <&c. 



