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Gardens, The Rev. J. Jacob, Messrs. Walter T. Ware, Dickson & 
Robinson, A. M. Wilson, Sutton & Sons, Carter Page & Co., Dicksons, 
Brown & Tait, Robert Veitch & Son, T. G. Brown, J. R. Pearson & 
Son, W. H. Divers, W. Poupart, and Barr & Sons. Messrs. Hobbies, 
and Isaac House, offered Roses and miscellaneous Plants, but these 
it was not found possible to send, so that their kind offer had for the 
present to be declined. 
5. Care of Eood Committee. — The Care of Food Committee has 
done good work during the past year in increasing the Vegetable and 
Fruit food-supply of the country. Attention is particularly drawn 
to a series of nine pamphlets which have been prepared, on (1) Small 
Fruits for Cottage and Allotment Gardens, (2) The Training of Fruit 
Trees, (3) Vegetables and How to Grow Them in Small Gardens and 
Allotments, (4) Flowers for Small Gardens, Window Boxes, and Wall 
Decoration, (5) Hardy and Half-Hardy Annuals in the Open Air, 
(6) Bottling Fruits and Vegetables, (7) Vegetable Cookery, (8) Salads 
and Salad Making. They have been issued at the nominal price of 
3d., just sufficient to cover the cost of production, printing, and 
postage, and have already had a wide sale. The latest to be issued 
(9) is on Autumn Vegetables Grown from Seed sown in July and 
August. 
It is impossible to estimate the value to the country of this addi- 
tional supply of food-stuffs, which was initiated by the Society by 
means of a letter to The Times on the very day it became known 
that an ultimatum had been despatched to Berlin. The possibility of 
excellent catch-crops from J uly-and- August-sown vegetables has been 
established beyond doubt, as was shown by the excellent exhibits of 
vegetables so produced at our Meetings in October 1914, and again 
in October 1915 ; and as the facts and methods become more widely 
known, they are certain to become more widely adopted. 
6. Wisley Development. — In spite of unavoidable delays caused 
by the War, the new Laboratories are approaching completion. 
Improvements in the gardens include the formation of a garden 
for British ferns to contain the magnificent collection presented to 
the Society by Mr. W. B. Cranfield, of Enfield Chase ; the establish- 
ment of an " American Garden " ; and the making of a large pond 
in the seven-acre field, to receive the outflow from the general system 
of ditches. The best thanks of the Society are due to Mr. Cranfield. 
During the whole of the past year Mr. Harold Page, Chemist to 
the Society, has been on active commissioned service in Flanders. The 
Trials Officer, Mr. Titchmarsh, has received a commission, and his 
deputy Mr. Barker has recently joined H.M. Forces. Only the loyalty 
and devotion of the staff have enabled the work of the Gardens to be 
carried on with success. The number of visitors to the Gardens 
(upwards of 15,000) during the year has been greater than in any 
previous year— a striking evidence of the fact that Fellows seek, and 
