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pleasure that so many had been able to attend on the occasion. 

 He desired to convey the Council's sincere appreciation of the 

 services of the different Committees, the members of which so 

 willingly attended the several meetings for the sole object of 

 aiding the Society to do all that could be done in the interests of 

 horticulture. The Scientific, Floral, Orchid, Narcissus, and Fruit 

 and Vegetable Committees did each in their sections work that 

 could not be otherwise done so well, as the members possessed 

 special qualifications, and some of them travelled long distances 

 to discharge their duties without fear or favour. They gave their 

 time freely, and not without cost to themselves, solely to advance 

 the art in which all were interested, and in a spirit of good-will 

 to the Royal Horticultural Society. 



At three o'clock, the luncheon tables having been cleared 

 away, the President again took the chair, and Dr. Maxwell T. 

 Masters, F.R.S., delivered an address on the better utilisation of 

 the Society's Gardens, entitled, 



WHAT CAN WE DO AT CHISWICK? 



[In the following notes is embodied the substance of an 

 address on " Suggestions for the better utilisation of Chiswick 

 Gardens," by Dr. Maxwell T. Masters, F.R.S., &c, which at the 

 request of the Council was delivered at the meeting of the 

 committees at Chiswick on Wednesday, July 14, 1897. In 

 sending the following paper Dr. Masters says : " In writing 

 out these notes the subject has here and there been slightly 

 expanded, and matters are herein alluded to for the men- 

 tion of which in a spoken address the time was not sufficient. 

 Purely cultural matters have been passed over in the hope that 

 some competent authority may favour the Society with some 

 observation on the development of the garden from the point of 

 view of the cultivator."] 



In considering the best means for " the development and 

 further utilisation of the Chiswick Gardens" — a subject which 

 the Council honoured me by requesting me to introduce — in 

 the first place, the meeting of all the committees here to-day 

 may be adduced as one illustration of what was desired ; and 

 in thanking the Council I only express the gratitude felt by 



