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to do with the success of the exhibition in 1908. May I say that the 

 success of all of our exhibitions, of which our society is very proud, 

 is to be attributed not to the individual efforts of one member or 

 another but in the perfect union which has existed from time imme- 

 morial, first between all the members of the committee and then 

 between the committee and all the horiculturists in our country." 



These last words of Monsieur Ceuterick deser^'e letters of gold 

 and present an ideal worthy of emulation by everyone connected with 

 the Eoyal International Horticultural Exhibition. 



It would be premature to boast, but there is every reason to believe 

 that, when the history of the great enterprise of 1912 is recorded, a 

 verdict equally creditable to British horticulture may be inscribed. 



