The late Mr. H. M. Jenkins. 
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very many. I may especially refer to the report of the Barnet 
example, as he had taken personal interest in the school in his 
own neighbourhood. The great productiveness obtained under 
spade culture is illustrated, and a great deal of information of use 
to those who are interested in small farms is given. An elaborate 
paper on Tobacco-growing, to which we have already referred 
as having been in the first place virtually spoken at one of 
the Committee Meetings of the Council, is the last contribution 
from his pen. It appeared in the last volume, and in its last 
part, which he saw through the press but a few weeks before his 
fatal illness. The experience of tobacco growth in Belgium and 
in France is described with whatever hopefulness it presents to 
English growers, and the paper is characterised by all the 
fulness and fairness which he always exhibited. Not very 
hopeful that tobacco-growing would be found of much benefit 
to English agriculturists, and considering the current interest 
in the subject to be of philanthropic as much as merely com- 
mercial origin, he nevertheless states the whole story of expe- 
rience in the higher latitudes of tobacco cultivation in as 
instructive a way as possible : and concludes with a reference 
which throws a hopeful light upon English interest in it — 
the conclusion, namely, of a French observer, that the best 
tobaccos are those which are harvested before coming perfectly 
to maturity. 
The Secretary of the Society. 
The editorship and the authorship came to an end with the 
last number of the ' Journal.' It was published in November last 
year, and his life work closed in the following month. He may 
be said to have died in harness, for his last letter on the business 
of the Society was dictated from his death-bed. It must not how- 
ever be supposed that the editorship and authorship were anv- 
thing like such a proportion of his work as from this account 
of them might be imagined. He was Secretary as well as 
Editor ; and the multifarious character of his duties as secretary 
has already been to some extent declared. His organising 
power, constantly required, was remarkable. It was one of his 
most striking characteristics ; and I may relate here one example 
of what was every year exhibited, occurring though it did on an 
exceptional occasion during the last year of his life. I have 
before me the scheme of the visit to the VVoburn Experimental 
Farms, where a number of our Colonial visitors last year spent 
a day on the invitation of His Grace the Duke of Bedford. 
Two special train-loads of visitors had to be provided for, and 
