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get over the trouble. He advocated rather the adoption of a system 
of selling bulbs according to their weight. 
The Rev. W. Wilks, in proposing a vote of thanks to Sir Albert 
Rollit for so kindly presiding, said that he was more than pleased with 
the result of the Show and Conference. In his opinion the chief 
difficulty confronting any effort to introduce a largely increased trade 
in British -grown bulbs did not lie only in quality or price or service, 
but also to a very great extent in the almost ineradicable tendency of 
Britishers to extol everything coming from a foreign source and almost 
to decry anything home-grown. One of the benefits which he looked 
for and hoped for from this disastrous war was the creation of a 
better appreciation of our own merits and capabilities, at least in the 
Gardening direction — " for I don't believe there is any country 
under the sun where they can grow better garden stuff than in this 
dear old, much abused, land of Great Britain and Ireland." 
