CORRESPONDENCE. 



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a envoyer a la SocieHe Royalc d'Horticulture de Londres l'expression 

 de ses plus vifs et plus sinceres sentiments d'amitie*. 



Si, pendant la guerre, nous avons pu voir les soldats de nos deux 

 pays, combattre etroitement unis pour le triomphe de la meme cause, 

 notre action commune tendra, pendant la paix, a resserrer les liens 

 de bonne confraternite qui existent deja, de si longue date, entre 

 horticulteurs anglais et francais. 



Veuillez agreer, Monsieur le President, l'assurance de nos senti- 

 ments les plus distingues, 



Le President, 



Viger, Senateur. 



Le i e Vice-President. 

 Chatenay Abel. 



Royal Horticultural Society. 

 Vincent Square, 



Westminster, S.W. 



December 3, 191 8. 



Monsieur le President Viger et Monsieur le i e Vice- 

 President Abel Chatenay, Societe Nationale d'Horticulture de 

 France, — Your most welcome expression of the deepest and most 

 sincere feeling of friendship towards our Society is most heartily 

 reciprocated by us towards the Societe Nationale de France, as 

 well as to all your compatriots. 



The brave sailors and soldiers and airmen of our Allied Nations 

 have kept watch and guard and have fought side by side for four 

 most strenuous years, and now we hope that the Naval and Military 

 Alliance which has been thus instrumental in restoring to your country 

 the provinces so ruthlessly torn from you in the former war may be 

 succeeded by a perpetually enduring alliance between France and 

 Great Britain in the pursuit of all good projects for the welfare, peace, 

 and concord of all mankind and especially (as behoves our two 

 Societies) for the advance and improvement of Horticulture in all 

 its manifold directions. 



Thanking you sincerely for your fraternal letter of congratulation 

 at the prospect of a speedy peace, 



We a re, Gentlemen, 



Grenfell. Field Marshal, 



President. 

 Harry J. Veitch, 



Treasurer. 



Countersigned : W. Wilks, Secretary. 



