VrSlT OF THE COUNCIL AND COMMITTEES TO WOBURN. ciii 



Lancaster, Mrs. W. H. Levin, F. Litchfield, the Earl of Liverpool, 

 A. W. Livingstone, Mrs. J. LL Lloyd, Mrs. G. Lyon, W. McAllister, 

 H. E. Medlock, F. 0. Mills, J.P., Miss M. W. Mitchell, Mrs. F. 

 Mowatt, Mrs. Moxham, Capt. A. E. 0. Myers, E.A., Mrs. W. Newall, 

 Irving H. Nicholls, H. Oppenheim, Mrs. H. Oppenheim, 0. W. 

 Pasbach, Mrs. A. Pears, Francis Pears, Mrs. F. Pears, W. A. Perry, 

 Miss A. F. F. Pilling, Frederic Pine, Francis E. Powell, E. Prashad, 

 0. H. Pratt, E. B. Prlngle, 0. E. H. Eandall, Hugh Eeilly, Mrs. Pitt 

 Eivers, Dr. 0. M. Eoberts, Hon. Piers St. Aubyn, Lord Sandys, Lady 

 Sandys, Mrs. E. H. Savory, Mrs. Schwartze, Mrs. 0. J. Scott, Mrs, 

 H. 0. Sharpe, Mrs. J. Winkley Smith, J. Stallard, F. Start, Mrs. 

 Stirling, E. Lyall Swete, Mrs. Molesworth Sykes, F. 0. Taylor, Hon. 

 Mrs. Thellusson, E. Thomas, Mrs. Thorn asson, Mrs. A. Thompson, 

 W. Thorn, W. E. Tidy, T. H. Usher, Mrs. F. Verrall, Mrs. 1. L. 

 Waldron, James Warren, Mrs. Leybourne Watson, William Webb, 

 Lady West, Miss M. Wigram, Mrs. A. S. WilHams, Miss B. Wilson, 

 W. H. Wilson, F. G. Wood, Mrs. Vivian Wood, Mrs. Worsley, Lady 

 Wynford. 



Fellou's resident abroad (3). — S. Eaza Ali (India), Stephen G. Kirk 

 (Canada), F. Longhurst (N.S. Wales). 



Society affiliated (1). — LTolmes Gardening Society. 



Lectures on Fifty Years Among Pansies and Violas " were given 

 by Mr. James Grieve and Mr. W. Outhbertson, J. P. (see pp. 312 

 and 315). 



VISIT OF THE COUNCIL AND COMMITTEES TO THE 

 EXPEEIMENTAL FEUIT FAEM AT WOBUEN, 



By the Invitation of His Grace The Duke of Bedford, K.G. 



The kindness of feeling towards the Society so frequently shown by 

 those who best know its work, and the manifest desire to assist it in 

 its career of practical usefulness, was expressed in no uncertain terms 

 on Thursday, June 23, 1910, when an invitation from the Duke of 

 Bedford, K.G., to the Council drew a party of about forty members 

 of the different committees of the Society to his Grace's Experimental 

 Fruit Farm at Woburn. A most hospitable welcome was accorded them. 



The party was met at Eidgmont Station by Mr. Spencer Pickering, 

 F.E.S., and, proceedmg at once to the farm, he explained the various 

 experiments now in hand, the results of those completed, and the 

 practical conclusions which he drew therefrom. 



The soil of the farm is stiff, with a substratum of tenacious Oxford 

 clay only two feet down, which the roots do not attempt to penetrate. 

 The soil is apt to crack badly, and the dug surface to remain in 

 hard clods; the site therefore cannot be considered specially suitable 

 for commercial fruit-growing, although the majority of the trees there 

 seem to have flourished remarkably well. But experiments made at 

 one particular station, however well they may be planned, will generally 



