NOTICES TO FELLOWS. 



CXXV 



Pears, Plums, Cherries, Raspberries, Currants, Gooseberries, and Straw- 

 berries, together with Notes on Planting, Pruning, and Manuring, which 

 for clearness of expression and direction it would be impossible to 

 surpass. It has in fact been suggested that no other 16 pages in the 

 English language contain so much and such definite information. At 

 the end of the pamphlet are given the names of some of the quite new 

 varieties of Fruits, which promise well, but are not yet sufficiently long 

 proved to be recommended for general planting. 



Copies of this most valuable little pamphlet for distribution may be 

 obtained at the Society's Office, Vincent Square, Westminster. Price, 

 post free : single copy, 2d., or 25, 2s. ; 50, 3s. ; 100, 4s. 



34. ADVERTISEMENTS. 



Fellows are reminded that the more they can place their orders with 

 those who advertise in the Society's Publications the more likely others 

 are to advertise also, and in this way the Society may be indirectly 

 benefited. 



35. MASTERS MEMORIAL FUND. 



The Council are very anxious that the memory of the late Dr. Masters, 

 F.R.S., should be fittingly perpetuated in connection with the Society. 

 It is hardly necessary to indicate the invaluable work Dr. Masters did 

 for Horticulture by drawing constant attention to the various ways in 

 which Scientific Discovery and Research might be made useful to 

 Gardening. A letter appeared in the Times after his death, from which 

 the following passages are quoted : — 



" Dr. Masters was a man with a combined capacity, willingness, 

 and aptitude for instructing gardeners in the bearing and applica- 

 tion of Science to gardening .... He could present a natural law 

 or a scientific discovery, and their bearing on the Art of Horti- 

 culture, in such simple every-day language as to be easily understood. 

 ... He combined the capacity to instruct with the willingness to 

 impart, and, best of all, with the aptitude of how to instruct ; and 

 he never minded condescending to explain in the most simple 

 words. ... A fitting Memorial is suggested by this. Just as 

 there are Foundation Lectures in Law, in Medicine, and in Theology, 

 so let us establish ' The Masters Memorial Lectures ' on the ap- 

 plication of Science to Horticulture. Let us raise a fund sufficient 

 to provide an adequate fee acceptable to the most renowned scientists 

 among us, to deliver a series of three or five Lectures annually, the 

 Lectures to be delivered in the first instance before the Royal 

 Horticultural Society, and to be afterwards printed and circulated 

 amongst all the Gardeners' Mutual Improvement and similar 

 societies throughout the land. In this way we should not only 

 perpetuate the memory of our friend, but also his work — a point 

 which he himself, with his habitual modesty of demeanour, would 

 have considered of far greater importance." 



