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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



[ November 23, 1872. 



Jacqueminot, the Old White (Maiden's Blush), and Sweet 

 Briar would make capital stocks. — 0. P. G. H. 



[Common Briar may do well on tenacious moisture-holding 

 soils, but Manetti, Celine, and some others are more to be de- 

 pended upon on usual garden soils for the growth of enduring 

 specimens. — Eds.] 



ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



BffiMINGHAM MEETING, 1872. 

 A meettng of the General Committee appointed to carry out 

 the arrangements of the late Exhibition of the Royal Horti- 

 cultural Society at Aston was held on Thursday last, at the 

 Great Western Hotel, Birmingham. Mr. G. Wise presided; 

 and there were also present Messrs. Jaffray, C. T. Parsons, 

 J. Lowe, T. B. Wright, W. B. Mapplebeck, Dr. Barratt, 

 E. Tonks, Tye, Vertegans, Hall, E. W. Badger (Hon. Sec), 

 Quilter, Hassall, Growtage, Hallam, Hopwood, G. Baker, and 

 A. Forrest. 



Telegrams apologising for non-attendance were received from 

 the Marquis of Hertford and Earl Bradford, and letters from 

 Col. Ratcliff, Messrs. C. M. Caldecott, Milward, J. Cartland, 

 and W. Gardiner. 

 The following account of the Treasurer was presented : — 



Dr. Receipts. £ s. d 



To Birmingham Rose Show 127 16 9 



Subscribers' tickets 2507 6 



Railway Companies for admission to passengers 36 7 1 



Money taken at gates 2429 3 6 



£5100 7 10 

 Special Prize Fund: — 



Birmingham Rose Show £127 16 9 



Donations 924 16 6 



Bank, for interest on this fund 5 10 3 



105S 3 6 



Bank, for interest on general account 9 19 5 



Faulkner, Lavatory Department 15 



Sundries, per Secretary 3 15 



Implement, &c, Department £221 6 11 



Less amount paid to Mi-. Unite for shedding 88 14 



132-12 11 



Messrs. J. Carter & Co., for advertising on cover of schedule . . 8 8 



£6323 6 8 



Cr. Payments. £ s. d 



By laying-out Exhibition Ground, labour-, &c 507 10 7 



Restoration of Exhibition Ground '. 200 



Hire of tents 485 6 



Prizes £1304 7 



„ Medals 105 9 



1409 16 



Judges' fees 119 14 



Music 249 6 



Printing and stationery 208 5 



Advertising 253 9 8 



Bill posting 47 6 



Postages 65 14 4 



Metropolitan and County Police 122 18 



Expenses — collecting special prize fund, sale of tickets, &c. . . 191 4 



Gatekeepers, &c 39 10 2 



Travelling expenses, lodging, board, &c, of Society's staff at 



Birmingham, &c 116 IS 4 



Expenses of luncheon, exhibitors' breakfasts, refreshments for 



volunteers and police, judges' luncheons, &c. 149 7 2 



Carriage of goods from London, parcels, &c, IS 11 4 



Sundry incidentals 63 4 



Profit — One Moiety paid to Royal Horticultural 



Society £1040 5 91 



„ One Moiety paid to Mr. H. G. Quilter .... 1040 5 91 



-2080 11 7 



£fi:WS 6 8 



November 15th, 1872. John Lowe, Bon. Treasurer. 



Examined and compared with vouchers and found correct, 



James Richards, Assistant Secretary E.B.S. 

 Edward *W. Badger, Bon. Sec. Local Committee. 

 Howard C. Parkes, Public Accountant. 

 On the motion of the Chaiballn, seconded by Mr. Jaffeat, the 

 account was received, and ordered to be entered on the minutes. 

 Votes of thanks were then passed to the Earl of Bradford for 

 his valuable services as President of the Local Committee ; to 

 Mr. Lowe, for his efficient services as Treasurer ; to the Chair- 

 men and other members of the various Sub-Committees forthe 

 satisfactory manner in which they discharged their numerous 

 and onerous duties; to the gentlemen who officiated as Stewards ; 

 and to the gentlemen who undertook and so satisfactorily per- 

 formed the laborious and trying duties of adjudicating on the 

 merits of the boilers, horticultural buildings, implements, &c, 

 exhibited at the Show. 



The Chaibmax proposed, and Mr. T. B. Weight seconded, a 

 vote of thanks to Mr. E. W. Badger, for the very arduous and 

 important services rendered by him as Honorary Secretary, and 

 for his unwearied exertions to promote the success of the Exhi- 

 bition. 



Mr. Jatfeat, in supporting the motion, said that in addition 

 to the signal ability displayed by Mr. Badger in conducting all 

 the matters connected with the Exhibition, the tact and temper 

 with which he bore the annoyances showered upon him, partly 

 from the inclemency of the weather, and partly from the incon- 

 siderateness of the public generally, showed that he had also 

 great self-command, which was not possessed by all. 



The motion was cordially adopted. 



Thanks were voted to Mr. B. A. Hallam for the valuable 

 assistance rendered by him as Honorary Secretary to the imple- 

 ment department ; and to Mr. A. Forrest for his careful attention 

 to the duties of Secretary to the Committee. 



Votes of thanks were also accorded to Mr. Hall for his liber- 

 ality in granting the free use of rooms at the Great Western 

 Hotel for the meetings of the Committee ; to Mr. T. B. Thom- 

 son and other gentlemen who gratuitously undertook the sale of 

 tickets; to Mr. B. Harlow, of Macclesfield, for supplying and 

 fixing free of charge 1000 feet of hot-water pipes for the boiler 

 trials; and to Mi'. H. C. Parkes for his services as Auditor. 



The Chatealax then proposed " That the duties of this Com- 

 mittee being now finished, it be, and hereby is, dissolved." 



Mr. T. B. Weight seconded the motion, and suggested that 

 the work of the Committee should be continued by the establish- 

 ment of a Midland Counties Floricultural and Horticultural 

 Society, to commence operations next year by holding one or 

 two exhibitions, as might be considered desirable. There was a 

 large and admirable ground in which to hold an exhibition, and 

 he thought Mr. Quilter would be disposed to make liberal 

 arrangements with such a Society. Everyone would admit that 

 it was desirable to do more than had yet been done in the town 

 with regard to horticulture, and he believed that in a little time 

 they might establish one of the most flourishing societies in the 

 kingdom. 



A vote of thanks having been passed to the Chairman, Mr. 

 Quiltee said that, in accordance with his promise, he should 

 give £500, the half of his share of the profits, to the charities of 

 the town. He proposed to make the division as follows : — 

 General Hospital, =£'100; Queen's Hospital, =£100; Sanatorium, 

 £100 ; Dispensary, =£25 ; Children's Hospital, £30 ; Lying-in In- 

 stitute, £25 ; Eye Hospital, £25 ; Homoeopathic Hospital, £50 ; 

 Women's Hospital, £25; Orthopoedic Hospital, £10; Ear and 

 Throat Lrfirmary, £10. He was happy to be in a position to 

 give that sum to "the local charities, because he was anxious that 

 the visit of the Koyal Horticultural Society should be beneficial 

 to the town, and not result merely in his own aggrandisement 

 and profit. He should also esteem it a pleasure to hand over 

 the amount as he proposed, as some consideration for the many 

 kindnesses he had received from the town and neighbourhood, 

 and for the success which had attended his efforts. 



Mr. Lowe said he was sure the town would receive the 

 donations to the various charities in the spirit in which they 

 were offered by Mr. Quilter. It was a noble act on the part of 

 Mr. Quilter, who at the outset ran considerable risk of loss, and 

 it was an example which others, after having reaped success in 

 various ways, would do well to follow. 



The Committee then separated. 



It may interest some of our readers to have their attention 

 drawn to the following particulars : — The amount collected for 

 admission prior to the opening of the Show was about 60 per 

 cent, of the entire receipts for admission. The expenditure 

 may be thus classified — 



Laying-out Exhibition Ground, Tents, &c 20 per cent. 



Prizes 24 „ 



Music, Police, and other Incidentals 17 ,, 



Publicity 9 „ 



Profit .- '. 30 „ 



100 



ROYAL BERKSHIRE ROOT SHOW. 



Foe twenty-three years the Messrs. Sutton have held a root 

 Show, for the purpose of enabling the general public to see what 

 can be done by care and attention to the selection of seeds, and 

 by diligence and skill on the part of cultivators. Both these are, 

 I need not. say, necessary to the production of first-rate produce. 

 How often do growers lay the blame on seedsmen, and say, 

 "We have not been supplied with good seeds," when the fault 

 has been with themselves ? while, on the other hand, no skill 

 will avail if the seed supplied be of indifferent quality. The 

 well-tried probity and integrity of the celebrated Berkshire 

 firm are a sufficient guarantee on the latter point, and anyone 

 at all sceptical can have their doubts at once removed by seeing 

 the miscellaneous results exhibited at their Beading Show. 



With a liberality that deserves all praise, the Messrs. Sutton 

 award prizes at their root Show to the amount of nearly £S0, 

 the sole condition being that the exhibits should be from their 

 own customers ; and how wide and influential a range this gives 

 them may be gathered from the fact that the following were 

 some of those who competed on the present occasion : — Her 

 Majesty the Queen, Barton Farm, Osborne, Norfolk Farm, Wind- 

 sor, Bushey Park Farm, and the Royal Gardens, Windsor; 



