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THE GARDENERS’ 
Surrey and member of the Surrey County Council. 
e has long been an influential member oi the 
Council of the N. R.S. and undertook the treasurer- 
ship of that Society at a somewhait critical 
period in its history. He became President of 
the Society on the death of the late Mr. Edward 
Mawley, and held that office during the two last 
years of the w a trying and difficult period 
for all horticultural societies, when = Е 
tion at the head of affairs was of firs port- 
ance. That he has ught the Society Brice 
: at bro 
this period practically without loss of member- 
in itself a кое ent, uet was fitly 
С тев Hole Medal 
"m of о 
s th 
late nid ward 
: V elected President in 191 5. ee 
that date the headquarters of the Society were 
moved to Londor Mr. Pairs has ever 
e presided at the office of ‘the Society in 
Victoria. iot ешш үте he has 
e and e t administrator. 
ork à socie up- 
with corr respondent in 
sinecure and it has 
u 
itney ree pe is: ecre ле 
Soci w 
t 
energy 
d to the Sai irs ey 7 
. Page has secured the popularity which 
he hag attained. Mr, Page the 
several new varieties of gare rd 
of "нен аге of 
other duties, Һе now 
y fie published by the Society. 
pints 
In addition 
н the Rose 
Mr. H. R. Darlington was educated at Harrow 
and Trinity College, > Cambridge, and е after- 
wards called to the коган ng on the Equity 
side. Н ace E the slg rou 
Science and mei affairs with wide and deep 
experience may take council and discuss 
1 results of scientific investigations. We 
have everything gain e exchange 
: rience ideas в à time w 
Science does well to renew its touch with daily 
life both for its own sake no less than for the 
sake of true ess. "s is ised e 
e às advance in 
Pepe Ort an 
ast cen- 
to the a pplication of science. 
the paid es which we ar 
upon ‘we shall П 
сенку гані all available vieni knowledge to 
win th to success. It is 
нача а — we met at Newcastle гч 9916 
ruly ri e progress in 
-— pala hd science, 
nition of the value 
the p: y of our d 
d pe лв Жш. race mine 
икт їп 
Ф 
mpm. recog- 
of science ia йе Нн as 
а wore on for the A 
ress the Botanical Section ‘by oe ie Bir. Daniel we ее. 
EMG, M.A., D.Sc, D.O.L., LL.D., PLi President 
means whereby the material interests of the 
world may be enlarged. 
My distinguished p oe w hose work has 
been lar ms gentilis with t 
philosophic cal sed of AN tany, "hie 
pressed the general or а 
vnderstanding Between “botany at: dts economic 
is he said, “that our 
outlook m. ed y he war, 
and the changed environment must find us ready 
S сара in the interest of our country and 
anki ay » 
Wit ur permission, and acting on a sugges 
tion € N by "d рее I propose to trav el 
a little outside usual scope of previous 
addresses and review dm man е that have 
been made, and are still being made, to promote 
the interests dns only of the home land but of 
the Empire whole. My own activities have 
been more or flee katay connected with the 
bus, ics. ‘Their productions are daily in in- 
creasing de mand, and are becoming more 
in the national interest to 
; о kar and 
ien of our tropical sions, er 
that we may render дн Pill n hers capable of 
supplying 1 29 raw material so necessa the 
maintenance of our commerci 
it is, therefore, 
Ag 
West Ind e provision for the upkeep of 
the pene €— ME rw ament, was at 
pes rate of £17,400 per 
pecial efforts were гена 
ж science to bear al 
т 
in co-operation with off 
at British Guiana, Trinidad 
ме т organised the Dep 
gr rants for teaching sci 
sec schools, ап, 
miade 
‘ondary 
мал al n 
periment ii, 
to research work in les о 
sugar-canes and о iur oe in the уен 
th 
of diseases affec rops, and a eral 
amelioration of the. Сонра under whic hi they 
were ко Further, by means of an efficient 
staff ой travelling agricultural instr and an 
abundant supply ot literature the De ent 
was ‘brought into intimate th all classes 
expansion and i dies cm vement of old ind 
чс introduct of new in 
NR be Е ) 
CHRONICLE. 
[SEPTEMBER 20, 1919, 
REMARKS ON THE CONDITION OF - 
THE FRUIT CROPS. 
(See Tables and Sum EET ante pp. ae 
(€ 'ontinued ш р. 140.) 
—NORTH WEST. 
CUMBERLAND.—There never was a finer display 
of 2m on all kinds of fruit trees and bus 
wstor, 
but a snow m and frost on Apr an 
27 анас а the greater pant of the crops 
s pillars have also been numerous and de 
yed much embryo fruit, ae the long-pr 
vailing drought caused a 
James Tait, J usticetown. pore Du 
LANCASHIRE.— Fruit trees and al 
developed a remarkable quantity of blood and 
the season of fertilisation was lie: оша, bu 
the long-continued dry aither ^ 
crops. egt were on ihe ver 
rain fell, ith the result that en are 
W. Upjohn, Hall бата ; 
Weal 
—Apples jd Pears set well, 
weather follow: ive 
us these fruits and Che erries | 
set, with the ет of Vie 
zood. Gooseber , Curr: 
lid =| 
erries were very read on 
berries were dama; m by 
starting into wth. Ri 
Witherslack Hall. оте: оре -over Sands 
—— Caterpillars were a great plague y 
thing, ШО: dry weather w bi 
vou 
n their favour, but Ly рза АЙ wit 
шШк» , “КаїаКШа,” arsenate of lead and han 
picking saved a sprinkling of Apples. Trees 0 
Bismarck, Lane’s ape Albert, Lord Grosvenor 
anid. Golden Spire, carrying g crops 
W. A. Miller, finde Kirkby Lonsdale. 
ENGLAND—SOUTH WEST. 
and Nectarines are vel 
‘OR L.—Peaches 
good crops. Apples an average crop, though 
trees of some familiar varieties 
fruit. The same is true of 
berries and other ore fruits were abun 
e e ie! en 
flowering season of Apples 
"o ry W Mots, Tolveau › Re drut 
N.—Stone fr 
re FS were in flower. 
St ry was affected Бун. Sa 
i hos кор. yee these 
they require severe a ay g. Pears a 
patchy and badly attacked by pear-siug 
Robt. Р. Fit t, Endsleigh еи, иш 0 
Abbot, Tavistock. 1 
Apple, Pear, and Plum trees blossome 
freely, but Apples are badly infested with catel 
pillars. e b ramley's Seedlin 
ib. qe. are a few 
2. some of b sheltered tr 
on 
eaches and are good average 
pos e es are clean and fre 
cots are a fail e. Strawbei 
fruit. were good a crops. T. 
verage 
Westonbirt Devine Tetbury. 
_ (To be continued.) 
