lxxviii PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY, 



TESTIMONIAL TO THE REV. W. WILKS, M.A., V.M.H., 

 For Twenty-five Years Secretary of the Royal Horticultural Society. 



As a result of the addendum by Sir Trevor Lawrence, K.C.V.O., 

 V.M.H., at that time President of the Society, to the Report of 

 the Council for 1912 (see p. xii), it was suggested that a presenta- 

 tion should be made to the Rev. W. Wilks by the Fellows of the 

 Society, as an expression of their appreciation of his great work and 

 their regard for him personally. A subscription fund was accordingly 

 opened to which a very hearty response was quickly made, a total 

 of £611 being subscribed. At the Annual Meeting of the Society 

 on February nth, a beautiful silver salver, suitably inscribed, was 

 presented to him and later a cheque for the balance. 



The following is a list of the subscribers : — 



1 A.M.M.' and ' F.R.D.,' ' A.T.P.,' Fredk. C. Adams, R. H. Adams, F. N. 

 Adkin, H. W. Adnitt, Mrs. Lockett Agnew, Minister for Agriculture, H. G. 

 Alexander, Henry Allan, Mrs. J. H. Allan, Mrs. W. Allan, E. J. Anderson, 

 Rear-Admiral A. H. Anson, Mrs. A. Ardern, Mrs. John Arkcoll, John Arkcoll, 

 Mrs. Florence E. Armstrong, T. Armstrong, Mrs. M. Arnold, Miss L. B. Ashford, 

 John Aste, Sir F. E. Astley-Corbett, Bart., Miss Emily Aston. 



Mrs. L. F. Bailey, William Bain, F. J. Baker, Hiatt C. Baker, J. G. Baker, 

 F.R.S., W. G. Baker, Lord Balfour of Burleigh, Prof. I. Bayley Balfour, H« 

 Ballantine, John Barclay, Lady Barlow, N. F. Barnes, Barr and Sons, T. L. 

 Barrett, H. S. Bartleet, John Basham, W. Bateson, M.A., F.R.S., V.M.H., R. H. 

 Bath, Ltd., Countess Bathurst, T. Batson, Edwin Beckett, Mrs. Beddington, Mr. 

 C. Baker-Gabb, G. Beale, H. Beale, The Duchess of Bedford, C. Bayer, Mrs. E. G. 

 Bennett, Mrs. Caroline R. Bennett, J. T. Bennett-Poe, J. Bentley, Ltd., 

 A. H. Berney, Rev. E. Best-Dalison, Alex. Bevington, Mrs. Anne Berkeley, Miss 

 Lucy Bethell, W. A. Bilney, Mrs. George Bird, Miss A. Birt, Mrs. Amelia M. 

 Birts, Henry R. Blackburn, Blackmore and Langdon, Mrs. Blair, Richard S, 

 Bond, Mrs. M. H. Booth, Lieut.-Colonel A. C. Borton, Rev. Arthur T. 

 Boscawen, Hon. John Boscawen, Lady Margaret Boscawen, J. Christopher 

 Bourne, E. Augustus Bowles, Sir Thos. B. Bowring, Mrs. Brace, J. Bradshaw, 

 Albert Brassey. Mrs. Frederick Braund, John H. R. Bright, Mrs. F. W. Brind, 

 Robert Brough, H. Delves Broughton, W. J. Brown, Lady Hargreaves Brown, 

 Miss May Violet Brown, Thos. Brown, Edward Browne, Mrs. S. Buddicom, 

 Mrs. Bullen, H. F. Bulman, Sir H. Bulwer, Mrs. A. S. Bumsted, G. Bunyard, 

 V.M.H., A. H. Bunney, Mrs. M. C. Burbidge-Hambly, Sir Francis Burdett, 

 Bart., W. Burdett-Coutts, Jas. A. Burness, H. Burnett, Mrs. Miles F. Burrows, 

 Miles F. Burrows, Albert Butcher, J. Butler, W. Waters Butler. 



C. H. B. Caldwell, Cardiff and County Horticultural Society, Miss H. 

 Carpmael, Admiral H. J. Carr, James Carter and Co., E. H. Cartwright, 

 Mrs. Rosa Cates, Mrs. R. M. Caulfield, H. St. J. Cavell, Mrs. Isabel Cazenove, 

 Hon. Mrs. Evelyn Cecil, T. Challis, Miss D. M. Champion, A. Chapman, F. H. 

 Chapman, Mrs. D. P. Chapman, Charlesworth and Co., Mrs. de Chaumonts, Miss 

 Ethel F. Chawner, Jos. Cheal, Fred. J. Chittenden, Mrs. R. H. Cholmondeley, 

 W. J. Chrystal, Sir Arthur H. Church, Geo. Churcher, G. and A. Clark, Ltd., 

 Mrs. Stephenson Clarke, Harvey R. G. Clarke, Lieut.-Col. Stephenson Clarke, 

 Wilfred Henry Clarke, Mrs. Clarkson, S. C. Clay, Mrs. Cleasby, Mrs. D. Clerk, 

 Messrs. Clibrans, Mrs. T. Close, Mrs. Elizabeth Cloudsley, Walter Cobb, Mrs. 

 L. Cobbold, James Coey, Lady Cohen, Miss Edith Cole, Miss Emily Collyer- 

 Bristow, Mrs. Grace Collyer-Bristow, Sir Jeremiah Colman, Bart., Mrs. E. M. 

 Colman, Miss Helen Colt, R. C. Coode, Thomas H. Cook, C. W. Cooke, Richard 

 Cooke, L, Cookson, Thos. Coomber, C. L. Cooper, Fred. Cooper, M.R.C.S., 



