ARCHIBALD F. BARRON. V.M.H. 



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ARCHIBALD F. BARRON, V.M.H. 

 Born at Banchory, Aberdeenshire, 1835 ; 



DIED AT CHISWICK, MIDDLESEX, APRIL 15, 1903. 



A truly great and practical gardener has passed away from our midst, 

 and one whose career has long been intimately associated with the Royal 



Fig. 39.— The late Mr. A. F. Barron, V.M.H. (Journal of Horticulture.) 



Horticultural Society, and to whom the Society in past years has been 

 under the deepest obligation. 



Born of a gardening stock — for his father was a gardener on Deeside — 

 Mr. Barron from his earliest childhood showed an instinctive taste for 



