JOURNAL 



OF THE 



Royal horticultural Society. 



Vol. XXXIX. 1914. 

 Part III. 



SIR TREVOR LAWRENCE, BART., K.C.V.O., etc. 



President of the Society, 1885-1913. 



However long the Royal Horticultural Society may be destined 

 to uphold the standard of British Horticulture it can hardly be 

 expected ever again to have a President who will experience so 

 long or so prosperous a term of office as Sir Trevor Lawrence 

 has done. Nor is it likely that any future occupant of the office 

 will ever surpass Sir Trevor in his practical knowledge or in his 

 whole-hearted love of Horticulture. Sir Trevor is most widely 

 known as a grower of Orchids, following in the steps of his mother, 

 who was one of the first people to make a hobby of Orchids. 

 As quite a young man, whilst he was serving in India, the vei andah 

 of the house which he built for himself at Dharmsala was always 

 gay with Orchids, and at Burford he not only succeeded in 

 gathering together a unique collection of all the now well-known 

 species and varieties with conspicuous flowers which have made 

 Orchids so deservedly popular, but he also eagerly collected 

 every sort and kind down to the most insignificant with tiny 

 blossoms, which most people would pass over, but which he 

 himself delighted in, and of which he used to say that many 

 of the smallest flowers displayed the greatest beauty, the most 

 wonderful arrangement of their parts, and the most extraordinary 

 adaptation to their circumstances. Probably no one in the 

 world had such a knowledge of what are popularly called Botanical 



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