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JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Thursday, October 12—11 a.m. to 1.30 p.m. 



Chairman — Sir Albert Kollit, M.P. 



Subject-— 11 Eailway Grievances." 



Mr. W. W. Berry (Faversham). 

 Mr. John Idiens (Evesham). 



Mr. Geo. Monro, President of the National Federation of 



Trades Association. 

 Mr. T. F. Goddard. 



2.30 p.m. to 5 p.m. 



Chairman — Colonel Long, M.P., President of the National 

 Fruit Growers' Federation. 



Subject — " Distribution of Information in Connection with the Proposed 

 Establishment of an Experimental Fruit Farm by the Board of 

 Agriculture, and its possible extension for Demonstration of 

 Commercial Fruit Growing." 



Mr. Spencer Pickering, F.R.S., Director of the Woburn 



Experimental Fruit Farm. 

 Mr. W. A. MacKinnon, late of the Canadian Government 



Fruit Division. 

 Mr. H. F. Getting (Boss). 



First Day, October 10, 1905. 

 Subject — 



" FOREIGN COMPETITION AND HOW TO MEET IT." 



Chairman — Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., K.C.V.O., V.M.H., 

 President of the Royal Horticultural Society. 



Sir Trevor Lawrence, in giving the opening address, said : I think 

 we should at once begin our proceedings because there are important 

 papers to be read, and we anticipate some interesting discussions on them. 

 I shall not, therefore, detain you at any length with my remarks. Dis- 

 cussions on all matters connected with health have been going on so 

 long, and have so completely covered the whole question of food and food 

 supply, that it has become recognised on all hands that the provision of 

 a good fruit supply is one of the most important requirements of a good 

 dietary. It has been contended by physicians of eminence who are fully 

 acquainted with the subject that in this country we are too much given 

 to animal, and too little to vegetable food. I am not quite sure that this 

 is not due — at all events to some extent — to our defective education in 

 the way of treating vegetables and fruit for the table. But it has probably 

 fallen to the experience of most of us that in recent years these, from 

 a dietary point of view, have come to be considered of great value. 



You will see by the agenda that the first question to be discussed is the 

 subject of foreign competition and how to meet it, and with a view 

 to showing how important that competition is, I have taken out some 

 figures representing the value of fruit which we import, but which 

 might be grown in this country. In 1904 the value of Apples — raw — was 

 £2,118,000, Cherries £319,000, Currants £143,000, Grapes £837,000, Pears 



