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JOURNAL OP THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



RICHMOND ALLOTMENT HOLDERS. 



A matter of considerable interest occurred on Tuesday, the 9th 

 of October, 1894, when a deputation of the allotment holders 

 of Richmond, Surrey, waited on the Mayor and Corporation 

 at the Town Hall, and presented to the Mayor the Silver 

 Knightian Medal recently awarded to the combined body of the 

 allotment holders by the Royal Horticultural Society for a large 

 collection of well-grown vegetables and fruit. The deputation 

 was introduced by Mr. Alderman Pillans, who intimated that 

 the holders of the Corporation allotments had gone on from one 

 success to another, and that the most sanguine hopes of those 

 who had provided the ground had been more than realised by 

 the results attained. 



Mr. A. J. Ward, the Hon. Secretary of the Association 

 of Allotment Holders, who acted as spokesman, requested his 

 Worship to accept the Royal Horticultural Society's Silver 

 Knightian Medal, to be kept in trust for the winners, and de- 

 posited in such a place as he might decide. Mr. Ward said that 

 it was with more than ordinary feelings of satisfaction that they 

 asked the Mayor to accept the charge of the medal, as they were 

 the first working-men who had won this medal from the Royal 

 Horticultural Society. 



The Mayor, in replying, said that it afforded him very great 

 pleasure in accepting the medal, and in ordering it to be kept 

 in trust for the holders. He heartily congratulated them upon 

 the honour conferred upon them, and was delighted to see 

 how well they had utilised the ground which the Council had 

 provided. 



The medal, it was stated, would be placed under a glass case 

 in the Public Library of the borough. 



