ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY'S WAR RELIEF FUND. cli 



Each tool and every box and packet of seeds is labelled as follows, as also every 

 lot of fruit trees : 



"Offert par les Anglais en Gage d'Amitie ! 



" Royal Horticultural Society War Relief Fund, 

 "17 Victoria Street, London." 



Everything sent from Great Britain was delivered to the office of the 

 British Committee of the French Red Cross in London, who conveyed all free of 

 expense to our Fund (subject to transport expenses incurred outside their juris- 

 diction) to the various districts in France named above where the French Red 

 Cross has branches and where every assistance was given by their staff to ours 

 in the distribution to the right people. 



Extract from letter dated 13th September, 1919, from Monsieur 

 A. De Smet, President of the Chambre Syndicale des Horticulteurs 

 Beiges, Ledeberg Gand, Chaussee de Bruxelles 92. 



" We will be able to help all who want paillassons, and I must say this has 

 made in Belgium an enormous sympathy for the English Nation, as the distri- 

 bution has been made all over Belgium." 



N.B. — It is gratifying to be able to announce that last month a represen- 

 tative of the Chambre Syndicale des Horticulteurs Beiges was officially deputed 

 to visit London and to brir^g as a Souvenir of the gratitude of the Belgian nation a 

 beautiful album stating how the paillassons had been distributed throughout 

 the country, and also to express personally the grateful thanks of the recipients. 



4 Cromwell Place, S.W. 7. 

 Legation de Roumanie, February 3, 1920. 



Londres. 



Sir, 



In conformity with the contents of your letter of 17th January, addressed 

 to Monsieur Gologan, I have the honour to acknowledge, on behalf of my 

 Government, receipt of the generous gift of tools and seeds that the Royal 

 Horticultural Society has so kindly made to Roumania, and to ask you to be 

 good enough to convey to your honourable Committee the lively thanks of the 

 Roumanian Government for the assistance so readily given to our cultivators 

 for their economic recuperation. 



I regret being unable to give detailed information regarding the use the 

 tools and seeds were put to, but, from instructions given by the Ministry of 

 Agriculture, they were sent to Peasant Co-operative Unions for distribution 

 to their members as a gift from the Royal Horticultural Society of England. 



Yours very truly, 



(Signed) M. B. Boerescu, 

 Roumanian Charge d' Affaires. 



Mr. Carl Hentschel, Organizing Secretary, 



Royal Horticultural Society War Relief Fund, 

 17 Victoria Street, S.W 7 . 1. 



