GENERAL MEETINGS. 



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Lectures on " Hardy Irises " were given by Miss Armitage and Mr. 

 Carparne. (See pp. 451 and 458.) 



GENERAL MEETING. 

 July 21, 1908. 

 Mr. A. H. Pearson in the Chair. 



Felloivs elected (35). — Mrs. Alder, Charles Armstrong, Mrs. J. Bagot, 

 Miss B. M. Berkley, Miss K. Biggs, Mrs. Blaauw, Dr. C. S. Bowker, 

 A. Bromet, Dr. Burtt, Mrs. L. Cameron, Lady Margaret Cecil, William 

 Dormer, T. H. Down, G. Edwards, F. Hawyard, Lady Arthur Hill, 

 C. Napier Jackson, Mrs. W. Jackson, Mrs. W. F. Knight, Sir Philip 

 Magnus, Jose M. de Mancha, F. E. Mugford, H. W. Page, Mrs. E. de la 

 Penha, Hon. Gerald Ponsonby, W. Shrives, H. C. Swayne, Mrs. H. P. 

 Tricou (U.S.A.), Henry Vallance, Mrs. Henry Vallance, Mrs. H. Yyse, 

 J. H. Wagstaff, W. W. Ward, Mrs. W. Welsby, G. Kyme Wright. 



Society affiliated (1). — Stroud Horticultural Society. 



A lecture on " Horticulture in New Zealand " was given by Mr. G. 

 Hunt. (See p. 146.) 



DEPUTATION TO CARDIFF. 

 July 22, 1903. 



At the invitation of the President, Chairman, and Executive Committee 

 of the Cardiff and County Horticultural Society, the Council appointed the 

 following gentlemen to act as a Deputation to visit the Cardiff Horticul- 

 tural Show : 



The Rt. Hon. the Earl of Ilchester, Member of Council. 



Frederick G. Lloyd, Esq. J. P., Member of Council. 



James H. Veitch, Esq., F.L.S. 



Arthur L. Wigan, Esq., Member of Council. 



Rev. W. Wilks, M.A., Secretary R.H.S. 



Mr. S. T. Wright, Superintendent of the Society's Gardens. 



The Deputation left Paddington at 3.35 on Tuesday, July 21, and 

 arrived at Cardiff at 6.30, being welcomed at the station by the Chairman 

 of the Local Society, Dr. de Vere Hunt, and several other members of the 

 Executive Committee, who conducted them to their hotel and entertained 

 them most courteously at dinner. 



On the following morning the Deputation were conducted over Cardiff 

 Castle, the Marquis of Bute having most kindly ordered the private 

 apartments to be shown them. The Castle is a wonderful specimen of 

 Early English architecture and has been restored and re-decorated in Early 

 English style, and should be visited by anyone who ever happens to be in 

 the neighbourhood. 



From the Castle the Deputation went on to the Flower Show, held in 

 the beautiful park-like gardens adjoining the Castle and generally thrown 

 open to the public by the Marquis. After making the awards and carefully 



