ROSE SHOW AND CONFERENCE HELD AT HOLLAND HOUSE. 447 



Sir George King, K.C.I.E., F.R.S., V.M.H. 



Mr. E. B. LindselU 



Dr. Maxwell T. Masters, F.R.S. 



Rev. F. Page-Roberts, M.A. 



Mr. A. E. Prince. 



Mr. A. Tate. 



Miss Willmott, V.M.H. 



In opening the Conference the Very Reverend the Dean of Rochester, 

 President of the National Rose Society, said : — 



My lords, ladies, and gentlemen, by an opportune and happy arrange- 

 ment, for which we are indebted to the Royal Horticultural Society, the 



Fig. 125. — The Very Rev. S. Reynolds Hole, D.D., Dean of Rochester. 

 (Journal of Horticulture.) 



Queen of Flowers, with her lovely ladies in waiting and chief officers of 

 her court, has come to London in honour of the Coronation of the Queen 

 of England. There is a charming resemblance between these royal 

 sisters — both beautiful and alike beloved. None doubt their royal 

 supremacy. I can just remember a time when the Champion of England 

 rode forth and threw down his glove as a challenge to all comers who 

 should deny the claims of the rightful heir to the throne. In this case 

 either Queen is " monarch of all she surveys ; her right there is none to 

 dispute." For a combination of all that is excellent in a flower — form, 

 colour, and fragrance — the Rose " brooks no rival near her throne." She 

 receives universal homage. I know that the King himself has ordered 

 many thousand plants of one variety, ' Hermosa,' for the royal garden 



