expenditure, and though the letters have more pointedly 

 aimed at public parks and gardens, such expressions are 

 apt to be dangerous inasmuch as the gardening public 

 at large may be likely to interpret and apply them to 

 themselves individually. Indeed, that this is happening 

 is evident from correspondence recently received on the 

 subject from prominent and well-known firms who tell 

 us that their trade is very seriously depressed, and who 

 point out that an entire cessation of trade means not 

 only temporary financial loss but the irretrievable sacri- 

 fice of many years of labour spent in introducing new, 

 and improving older, fruits and vegetables for our use, 

 and flowers, trees, and shrubs for our solace and enjoy- 

 ment. They rightly feel that, as they have catered for 

 our highest happiness in times past, it is hardly right 

 that they should now be brought to a position in which 

 they can no longer even retain their employees' services. 

 Most of their younger men have enlisted, and they ask, 

 not for the usual trade, but for just sufficient support to 

 keep them going and to meet current expenses which 

 cannot be suspended. 



The President and Council feel that in drawing 

 the attention of Fellows to this trade aspect of the ques- 

 tion they are but again advising that medium policy 

 which, in the long run, is always the wisest, and Fellows 

 are urged not to forget this when framing their 

 economies. 



W. W1LKS, Secretary. 

 By Order of the President and Council. 



