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satisfactory to the Society. He welcomed Sir Edward Grey, and 

 thanked him with the greatest possible warmth and cordiality. 



SiE Edward Grey: Sir Trevor Lawrence and Gentlemen, — I thank 

 you very much for the kind way in which you have drunk my health 

 and that of your other visitors. I fear I must apologize for being 

 obliged to be going away so soon; but certain exigencies, which were 

 not foreseen when this engagement was entered into, have since arisen 

 which have made a considerable demand upon my time, and I must 

 leave in order to plunge into that raging stream outside, of which I 

 spoke a little time ago, and which made it very doubtful whether I 

 should be able to fulfil my engagement. In the first place, I am glad 

 to have had the opportunity of seeing this Show for its own sake, 

 because it often happens in election times, and sometimes out of 

 election time, that one is so occupied with politics that a show of 

 the Eoyal Horticultural Society is let go by without being seen. But 

 when one has to open the Show, one has at any rate the satisfaction 

 of seeing it; and I have very much enjoyed what I have seen. I have 

 some little interest, too, in meeting Sir Daniel Morris to-day, with 

 whom I was a colleague in the West Indies some little time ago, and 

 because I know that a part of the work of the Commission on which 

 he and I sat was the establishment of direct communication between 

 the West Indies and this country ; and I believe that that communica- 

 tion has had a direct influence upon the presence here of West Indian 

 fruit. I have already said that I am much indebted to the Royal 

 Horticultural Society. Our President said that I told him that it was 

 the only Society which I got anything out of. No doubt I did say 

 that to him, because I have often said something very like it to a good 

 many people; but I think I put it even stronger than that, and said 

 it was the only Society I knew of from which one got not only some- 

 thing, but a good deal more than the value of one's subscription. And 

 I am glad for that reason to have been able to take part in the pro- 

 ceedings to-day, because I am always looking forward to the time 

 when I shall have more leisure than I have at present ; and, when that 

 time comes, I look forward to making still greater use of the benefits 

 to be obtained from our Society. I am especially sorry that I cannot 

 stay for the next toast, because I should have liked to hear Sir Daniel 

 Morris and others on behalf of the Colonies; but the compulsion of 

 the outside engagements which I have to fulfil is upon me, and I must 

 leave you with an apology, only again renewing my thanks for your 

 most kindly welcome. 



" Success to the Colonial Fruit Industry." 

 Sir Daniel Morris : Sir Trevor and Gentlemen, — In giving the 

 toast with which I have been entrusted I shall be as brief as I 

 possibly can in view of the engagements which so many of us have 

 to meet to-day. The toast which I have the pleasure of giving is 

 " Success to the Colonial Fruit Industry." I am reminded that 

 twenty-three years ago I read a paper before the Royal Colonial 



