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After passing through the Entrance Hall Their Majesties will 

 be conducted across the Royal Horticultural Hall to a platform 

 erected for their accommodation. 



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" God save the King " will be played by the String Band of 

 Lieut. Charles Godfrey, M.V.O., which will be stationed in the 

 Musicians' Gallery. 



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The following Address to Their Majesties will then be read 

 by Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., V.M.H., President of the 

 Society: 



TO THE KING'S AND QUEEN'S MOST 

 EXCELLENT MAJESTIES. 



MAY IT PLEASE YOUR MAJESTIES,— 



We, the President, the Vice-Presidents, the Council, and 

 the Fellows of the Royal Horticultural Society — who now 

 number more than 8,000 — venture, with our loyal duty and 

 greeting, to welcome Your Majesties to our new Hall. 



The Centenary of the Society, which was founded in 

 March 1804, is rendered memorable by the erection of the 

 building in which we are assembled, and by the acquisition, 

 through the generosity of Sir Thomas Hanbury, K.C.V.O., 

 of a celebrated garden, in place of that at Chiswick, which 

 had become unsuitable for the purposes of the Society 

 owing to the advance of suburban London westward. 



The first Charter of the Society, granted by H.M. King 

 George the Third in 1809, set out the objects for which the 

 Society had been founded — namely, " The Improvement of Hor- 

 " ticulture in all its branches, ornamental as well as useful." 



