February 12, 181»1. ] 
JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
181 
d^Histoire Naturelle,” “ leones Plantarum,” “ Amaryllideai,” &c. The 
best thanks of the Society are due to all those who either at home or 
abroad have so kindly and liberally presented books to the library or 
plants or seeds to the Gardens. Special thanks are due to those who 
have so kindly contributed Perennial Asters and Sunflowers in view 
of a much needed Conference on them in October. A list of the 
donors has been prepared, and will appear in the next number of the 
■“Journal.” 
The Council also wish to express, in their own name and in that of 
all Fellows of the Society, their great indebtedness to all who have so 
kindly contributed, either by the exhibition of plants, fruits, flowers, or 
vegetables, or by the reading of papers, to the success of the Conferences 
and fortnightly meetings. 
The hearty thanks of the Society are due to the Chiswick Board and 
to all the members of the Standing Committees—viz, the Scientific, 
the Fruit and Vegetable, the Floral, the Orchid, and the Narcissus Com¬ 
mittees, for the most kind and patient attention which they have 
severally given to their departments ; also to the exhibitors who have 
contributed to so great an extent to produce the magnificent results of 
the Daffodil, Carnation, Fern, Dahlia, and Grape Conferences. 
The Council have the sad duty of recording the death of nineteen 
Fellows during the year, and amongst them they deeply regret to find 
the names of Messrs. Wildsmith, Macintosh, Haughton, Williams, 
Holmes, Deal, and Shirley Hibberd, Miss North and Miss Owen. The 
loss the Society has sustained in this manner has been unusually great, 
not in numbers, perhaps, but in the relative importance of the gaps left 
in our ranks,, Messrs. Wildsmith, Deal, and Hibberd, and especially the 
last named, having been most energetic and loyal supporters of the 
Society and themselves active workers in all its undertakings. 
During the past three years the Council have amongst other matters 
been considering methods of interesting amateurs more in the Society 
and its work, and of rendering to them a greater personal return for 
their subscriptions. To this end they have already established the fort¬ 
nightly lectures, and the great Temple Show ; have promoted various 
Conferences on interesting horticultural subjects ; and have revived the 
publication of the “ Journal.” They have now further decided to 
revive the Society’s ancient custom of offering prizes to amateurs, a long 
schedule of which has been already circulated in the “ Arrangements 
for 1891.” The Council cannot afford, with the very limited funds at 
their disposal, to embark on any very comprehensive scheme this 
year, but if this new departure should meet with general approval 
they ',hope that the Fellows themselves will, by subscriptions to the 
“ Prize Fund for 1892,” enable them next year to set forth a much 
fuller schedule. 
Another revival during the past year has been the scheme of 
affiliation with local societies, and the Council would feel greatly 
obliged if Fellows who take an interest in the affairs of any local 
horticultural societies would use their influence to secure co-operation 
in this way. 
It has been decided to hold a Conference at Chiswick on Conifers 
during October, which it is hoped will prove unusually interesting, not 
only as drawing attention to the best of these trees and shrubs from a 
garden or landscape point of view, but also demonstrating the best 
varieties to plant for English-grown timber as well as the different 
uses and suitabilities of the various foreign-grown timbers. The 
unusually hard winter through whieh we have just passed will prove a 
most praetical commentary on the hardiness of the different varieties. 
The co-operation of landowners and others who may have planted these 
trees or shrubs in past years, or who take a present interest in them, is 
specially invited. 
ANKUAL REVENUE ACCOUNT FOR THE TEAR ENDING CIST DECEMBER, 1890. 
DR. 
Cash Paid. 
Debts Pay.able. 
To'als. 
TO ESTABLISHMENT EXPENSES— 
£ 8. 
d. 
£ s. 
d. 
,£ 
8. 
d. 
£ 
SJj 
d. 
Salaries and Wages. 
10 
39.5 
8 
10 
Rent of Offices. 
93 3 
0 
3) 15 
9 
]2:} 
18 
9 
Printing and Stationery 
174 10 
2 
^0 0 
2 
1H4 
16 
4 
Public itlons-Journals, &c. 
31.5 4 
I 
1C4 9 
6 
419 
13 
a 
Postage . .. 
04 4 
4 
64 
4 
4 
Coal, Gas, and Water. 
4 2 
I 
0 15 
9 
4 
17 
10 
M'scellaneoiis .. 
135 2 
8 
1 1 
3 
134 
3 
11 
Libra-y . 
7 10 
0 
7 
10 
0 
— 
— 
1274 
13 
0 
11 mows, MEETINGS, and CONFERENCES— 
Rent 01 Drill Hall and Cleaning .. 
65 5 
0 
32 17 
0 
98 
2 
0 
Special Shows—Temple 
438 14 
7 
438 
14 
7 
Others 
08 10 
0 
5 19 
0 
74 
it 
9 
Advertising . 
2! 11 
(4 
17 
9 
2? 
8 
9 
Piizes and Medals . 
77 10 11 
77 
10 
11 
Floral Meetings and Conferences, 
Printing, A c. 
38 7 
5 
38 
7 
5 
1)0. Labour. 
J)0 2 
4 
2 
4 
Superintendent of Flower Shows.. 
50 0 
0 
60 
u 
0 
— 
— 
893 12 
9 
„ CHISWICK gardens— 
Rent, Rates, Taxes, and Insurance 
29 i 7 
9 
69 2 
6 
.•!53 
10 
3 
Sucerintendent's Salary 
225 0 
G 
2^6 
0 
0 
J abonr . 
676 8 
10 
076 
8 
10 
Jlanure, Implement', ic. 
69 7 
9 
4 7 
0 
6 5 
14 
9 
Co Hand Coke. 
129 0 
2 
59 11 
11 
179 
J2 
1 
Repairs . 
100 5 
2 
11 14 
0 
111 
19 
2 
Water and Gas. 
13 6 
4 
0 16 
1 
14 
2 
6 
Miscellaneous. 
74 14 
H 
74 
11 
u 
— 
— 
• — 
1699 
2 
5 
„ HORTICULTURAL HALL— 
66 16 
10 
00 16 10 
„ SUBSCRIPTIONS for 1889 unpaid 
. written off. 
21 0 
0 
Paid Credilcr.s, Sif-t Dec., 18,89 
772 4 
11 
Balance at Bank, .'list Dec., 1890 ,. 
156 3 
8 
P> tty Cash in hand . 
3 3 
4 
f, PA LANCE TO GENURAL REVENUE 
ACC )UKT. 
147 
1 
11 
£4518 18 10 
£346 18 
7 
£4102 
7 
5 
Cash 
Received. 
CR. S, s. d. £ s. d. 
BY balance AT BANK, It-t 
January. 400 6 3 
In hand . 3 17 3 
- 404 3 rt 
,1 ANNUAL SUBSCRITTIONS, 1890 .. 2387 L'l 1 
Do. do. 1891 .. 87 3 0 
„ SHOWS—Temple— 
Ticket! .£474 7 0 
Advertisemecta .. .. 34 19 o 
Donations.38 17 o 
-540 10 0 
„ meetings and CONFERENCES .. 48 ],8 0 
„ ADVERTISEMENTS .82 2 3 
„ Miscellaneous 
Saie of Journal and Reports, ifec. ., 4S 11 1 
„ DIVIDENU8— 
Davia Beqneft and Parry Legacy.. .56 18 4 
„ INTEREST ON DEPOSIT.11 4 11 
„ PRIZES AND medals.34 12 6 
,, CHISWICK GARDENS— 
Produce Sold .53.5 10 3 
Admission and Membera’Tickets.. 3 2 0 
• Sliscellaneons. 8 3 0 
Chiswick Ilorticultural 
Society .. .. £36 0 0 
Less 
Expenses .. .. 6 4 3 
-29 1.) 9 
„ STORING PLANTS.68 13 10 
„ DONATIONS ACCOUNT— 
Amount Transferred aga’nst Horti¬ 
cultural Hall Expenses .. .. 70 0 0 
Received from Debtors 31st Decem¬ 
ber, 18S9 . 104 3 4 
Debts 
Receivable. Totals. 
s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. 
21 0 0 2408 13 1 
7 7 0 548 3 0 
48 18 0 
52 6 0 134 8 3 
45 11 1 
55 18 4 
11 4 11 
31 12 6 
- 3288 9 2 
98 5 5 034 1 8 
3 2 0 
8 3 0 
29 1.5 9 
68 15 10 
- 743 18 3 
70 0 0 
£4518 18 10 £178 18 5 £4102 7 5 
We have examined the above Accounts with the Books and Vouchers, and find the 
same correct. 
(Signed) HARRY TURNER. ) 
HENRY WILLIAMS. 
13th January, 1891. A. H. PEARSON. ) 
BALANCE SHEET, 31ST DECEMBER, 1691. 
DP. £ 8. d. £ S 
TO SUNDRY CREDITORS . 
„ Subscriptions received in advance for 1891. 
„ DONATIONS— 
Balance of Account, 31st December, 1839 .. .. 4r'0 o o 
Less Transferred to Revenue Account ., ,. 70 0 0 
346 18 
87 3 
d. 
7 
0 
830 0 0 
Donations Received During the Year .. 15 o 0 
-- I 345 0 0 
„ GENERAL REVENUE ACCOUNT — 
Ba'ance at Credit of that Account, 1st January, 
1999 . ‘. 1649 13 2 
Add. Balance for the Y^ear 1891, as per Annual 
Revenue Account. 147 1 11 
- 1790 15 1 
£2575 10 8 
CR. £ s. d. £ B. d. 
BY Debtors- 
Annual Snb.scriptions Outstanding . 21 0 0 
Garden Produce. 95 5 5 
'J'emple Show—Donation . 7 7 0 
Advertisement Schedules . 62 6 0 
- - 17H IS 5 
„ INVESTMENTS—2i per cent. Consols, £2122 81 . 9J. CO't . 1892 11 3 
(£2,022 83 . 9 1. of this sum Is held by the Society, subject to 
the provisions of the AViil of the late J. Davis, Esq.) 
„ CASH AT LONDON AND COUNTY bank— 
Current Account. _ 1'55 3 8 
„ PETTY CASH IN HAND.7 3 3 4 
„ cash at LONDON AND COUNTY BANK on Deposit—Dona¬ 
tion Account . . 345 0 0 
£2575 16 8 
We have examined the above Accounts 
fame correct. 
(Signed) 
131h January, 1891. 
with the Books and Vouchers, and find the 
HARRY TURNER. 1 
HENRY WILLIAMS,- Auditors. 
A. H. PEARSON, j 
CULTURE OF GREENHOUSE RHODODENDRONS. 
[Prize E.ssay read b/'Mr. K. G. WATERMAN. Wooltoi, befo-e the Members of the 
Woolton Gardeners’ Mutual Improvemeut Society, February 5 ;b, 1891.] 
IIHODODENDP.ONS may be classed as amongst the most magnificent 
of all our greenhouse flowering plants. Take, for example, the noble 
proportions of R. Falconeri, which approaches 50 feet in height, with 
its enormous leaves from 15 to 18 inches in length, borne at the ends of 
the branches, or R. Nuttalli, one of the most gorgeous, producing umbels 
of nearly pure white fragrant flowers 4.j to 5 inches in length, with a 
like diameter, so distinct from the Balsaminteflorum varieties or double 
form, and the rich dark glowing red of the Duchess of Connaught. 
Their diversity of growth and their habit of flowering as regards form 
and colour, is also an additional mark in their favour. Whilst the 
beauty of Jasminiflorum recommends it to the skilful bouquetist, yet 
as an exhibition plant it fully maintains its own. R. Gibsoni, Countess 
of Haddington, R. Veitchianum, and others will prove weighty speci¬ 
mens amongst greenhouse plants, while the hybrids lend colour and 
distinctness to all collections. To properly consider the value of plants 
the season of flowering is of vital importance, and while we cannot 
claim special advantages for the plants under review, most of them 
open their lovely flowers in spring when flowers are valuable, while the 
Java section bloom at different periods of the year, and may be justly 
termed hybrid perpetuals. 
The species of Rhododendron number upwards of a hundred, are 
