JOURNAL 
OF THE 
Royal Horticultural Society. 
Vol. XXII. 1898. 
CHISWICK. 
July 4, 1898. 
The President and Council again invited all the members of the 
Scientific, Fruit, Floral, Orchid, and Narcissus Committees to 
luncheon at Chiswick on Tuesday, July 4. The several com¬ 
mittees number 188 members in all, and of these 106 accepted 
the Council’s invitation, and ninety-eight actually sat down to 
lunch. Considering the very great distances from which some 
of the committee-men have to come, from Scotland, Ireland, 
Paris, Holland, Baden, Cornwall, the Scilly Isles, and Wales, 
this was accounted a very representative gathering indeed. 
An excellent luncheon was provided by Messrs. Spiers & 
Pond. The President, Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., occupied the 
chair, supported by Mr. Thiselton-Dyer, C.M.G., F.R.S.; Dr. 
Masters, F.R.S.; T. A. Dorien Smith, Esq.; R. Milne Redhead, 
Esq.; Professor Farmer ; Hugo Muller, Esq., F.R.S., &c., &e. 
The Gardeners' Chronicle, in noticing the meeting, says:—■ 
“ It is not necessary to point out to the frequent visitors to the 
Drill Hall in what the work of the several committees consists ; 
but for the sake of those at a distance, who are not familiar 
with the working of % the Society, it may be desirable to allude to 
