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APPOINTMENTS FOR THE ENSUING WEEK. 
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WEDNESDAY, MAR. 30 {69 еро" and West of Scotland Spring 
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ше, LETTERS pour in from vario 
мауы. correspondents with reference to 
proposal. Our correspondents 
will readily understand that itis from no want 
of sympathy with the causes they advocate, and 
from no lack of сев to themselves, that we 
do not communications. 
reason is that we ij biv not room to do so. 
ирон hitherto made resolve themselves into 
three 
А. Тһе establishment of a — н the benefit 
of the orphan children of garden 
2. A benefit society for giidi or for gar- 
deners out of employ 
8. A contribution towards the funds of ‘the 
л clones tural Society. 
ese proposals (setting aside mere differ- 
vo ot detai) te Orphan Fund is the one in 
. PENNY hi 
comprising many of the best known names in 
horticulture. A good many are in favour of a 
benefit society in some form or another. The 
third proposal finds next to no supporters. The 
meeting held on Tuesday at the Royal Horti- 
cultural Society was unmistakably—indeed, we 
believe, quite unanimously—in favour of the 
foundation of a fund for the benefit of orphans, 
any attempt to dabble with bricks and mortar 
being deprecated. A further meeting to consider 
this subject was held at the Gardeners’ Chronicle 
office on Friday to settle preliminaries, Sofar,then, 
as we can read the signs of the times, the éatablish- 
ment of an Orphan Fund is the way in which the 
gardeners of the kingdom at large prefer to cele- 
brate the Jubilee year—and a 
too. God speed e who are 
engaged in such an enterprise! No objection 
has been raised by any one as to the main prin- 
ciple of the establishment of an Orphan Fund— 
indeed, the en аца expressed by our cor- 
res spondents as some possible injury to 
the funds of “the Gardien Benevolent. 
know what continual * pegging away " it required 
io get the amount of the pensions augmented, 
but it was done; we know what labour and im- 
рша begging are required to secure the 
nual income for the Society, but it is done. 
That мрз has now in consequence a fair 
ted in the Funds, not so large as it 
оой is but still there it is, ‘and there it would 
not have been but for these continuous efforts, 
Mr. CUTLER, the evergreen Secretary, had told us 
before now that at the beginning of the Society 
the resources of the Institute were so small that 
only one pensioner could derive benefit from 
it—now there are a hundred. Is not this history 
one of good omen for the Orphan Fund ? 
Suppose we are only able to come to the aid of 
one orphan in the first year, we shall then be in 
no way worse off than the Gardeners' Benevolent 
was, which, as we have seen, began with on 
pensioner, and now has a 
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hundred, besides а 
good store in the Funds. Thelimited possibilities 
of the present are therefore by no means detri- 
mental to ut prospects of the future of t 
Orphan Fund. Nor do we altogether verd 
the dread h lest the funds of the Gardener 
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us- will 
can; others, able to help one institution only, 
will contribute to that which they prefer. The 
stream of charity will hot be lessened, it will be 
ould not be surprised if eventually, s SO o tar 
from suffering, the Gardeners' Benevolent would 
actually profit by the agen of that sense 
of duty which will arise as a consequence of 
the appeal now made on behalf of the orphans. 
We append the resolutions which were passed 
at the meeting on Tuesday, and we trust, now 
that these Jubilee proposals have so far crystal- 
lised into one scheme with a definite object, 
that sympathy, loyalty, patriotism—all and every 
of the жн which influence men for 
will rted in favour of the Gardeners’ 
Md 
At the meeting at the Royal Horticultural 
са Mr. George Deal (Weeks & Со.) pre- 
, among those present being Dr. M. T. 
Nai F.R.S., Messrs. A. F. Barron, Se- 
cretary pro tei, B. S. Williams, C. Penny, J. 
Smith, J. Matthews, J. Wright, W. Richards, 
J. Roberts, G. Stevens, R. Dean, J. Hud- 
son, J. Woodbri 
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having set forth the object of the mee eeting, 
remarked that he thought the erection of a 
oF ALE was, for the present at least, quite out 
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experiences of 
working of the boarding-out system, Mr. 
Penny laid on the table a large number of letters 
a number of letters of a 
like favourable character, and intimated that he 
thought the proposal would be liberally sup- 
ported by horticulturists generally. Amongst 
the suggestions thrown out was one to the effect 
that the movement should be of an entirely in- 
dependent character, lene es dissociated from 
any existing institution. It was Mira sug- 
gested that it should not in any w: 
the Gardeners’ Royal Benevolent ere area It 
was proposed by Mr. J. Wright (Journal of 
Horticulture), and seconded by Mr. rts 
(Gunnersbury Park), * That a fund be opened, 
to be called the Gardeners’ Children Orphanage 
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be appointed to prepare a scheme, and lay 
the same before a future meeting, such com- 
mittee to consist of Dr 
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41, Wellington Street, Covent Garden, € ap 
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thanks to the Chairman. 
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building, and in wet or cold weather will 
for promenade concerts. 
THE CAT. REPORT. — Time flies so spe nigh 
the Arctic winters of 1879-80, 1880-81 are we 
forgotten. Nevertheless, the facts now rec tare 
be of use for all tim e, and it is only fair 0 hj 
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