July 27, 1889. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
751 
“RELIABLE SEEDS” 
FOB 
Summer and Autumn Sowing. 
DANIELS BROS. 
B EG to draw attention of their customers to their 
Choice Stocks of VEGETABLE SEEDS for 
Present Sowing, all of which have been selected with 
great care and discrimination. 
CABBAGE- 
Daniels’ Defiance Giant Early Pkt. Oz. 
Marrow, the largest and best s. d. s. d. 
variety in cultivation... ... 0 6 1 G 
Ellam’s Early Dwarf, very fine 
early kind ... ... ... 0 4 0 10 
Enfield Market, improved stock 0 4 10 
ONIONS— 
Daniels’ Golden Roeea, grand 
new variety for exhibition ... 0 6 16 
Daniels’ Giant Rocca, large and 
fine ; our true stock ... ... — 10 
White Spanish .. 3s. 6 d. per lb. — 0 4 
White Lisbon ...2s. 9d ,, — 0 4 
Daniels’ White Elephant Tripoli 0 6 16 
DANIELS BROS., 
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LAINC’S BEGONIAS. 
AWARDED FOUR GOLD MEDALS. 
Gardeners’ Orphan Fund. 
Result of the Election at the Annual 
General Meeting, July 19, 1889. 
Names or Candidates. No. of Votes. 
ALLEN, WILLIAM CHARLES . 133 
BUTCHER, FRANK. 43 
CHAPELOW, OLIVE. 87 
DEEDMAN. BESSIE STRONACH. 73 
GRIEVE, MARY . 47 
GUTHRIE, DAVID GEORGE .108 
HENDERSON, THOMAS . 44 
IRELAND, ARTHUR JOHN 233 
LACEY, ARTHUR . 49 
MOSEDALE, EDMUND WALKER . 151 
PRESTON, HARRY ROBINSON. 103 
SKELTON, HENRY' EDMUND . 55 
TAYLOR, BESSIE .237 
TODD, ROBERT JAMES . 92 
The Meeting thereupon declared Bessie Taylor, 
Arthur John Ireland, Edmund Walker Mosedale, 
William Charles Allen, David George Guthrie, and 
Harry Robinson Preston duly elected. 
A. F. BARRON, 
Royal Horticultural Society’s Hon. Secretary. 
Gardens, Chiswick. 
July 22nd, 1889. 
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Next Week’s Engagements. 
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Wednesday, July 31st.—Acton Horticultural Society’s Show. 
Thursday, August 1st.—Exhibition of the Carnation and Picotee 
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Saturday, August 3rd.—Liverpool Horticultural Association’s 
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“ Gardening is the purest of human pleasures, and the greatest 
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SATURDAY, JULY 27, 1889. 
CURRENT TOPICS. 
pfHE Orphan Fund Anniversary.— Rarely 
^ has it been our lot to assist at a more 
enjoyable, and yet withal more practical gather¬ 
ing than was the second anniversary meeting 
and dinner of the Gardeners’ Orphan Fund, 
the report of the proceedings of which we 
give elsewhere. The practical part of the pro¬ 
ceedings was conducted unostentatiously during 
the afternoon, but most amicably and with 
admirable results. The large number of votes 
recorded for the chief selected candidates 
shows that the full particulars relating to each 
case had been fully studied, and although 
there must of necessity he disappointments, 
yet there is every reason to believe that the 
most necessitous cases Avere the first to he 
selected by the subscribers. 
The munificent donation of the Duke of 
Bedford very happily enabled a sixth candi¬ 
date to he placed on the successful list; and 
we very fervently hope that as a result of the 
bold and generous offer of Mr. Harry Veitch 
at the dinner table, some two or three others 
of the disappointed candidates may speedily 
be sharing the benefits of the Fund also. The 
business arrangements of the meeting in the 
hands of Mr. Deal, the excellent chairman, and 
Mr. Barron, the popular lion, secretary, were 
of the most efficient kind ; and everything 
went as smoothly as could well he desired. The 
proposed addition to the rules, enabling pro¬ 
moters of particular forms of fetes or enter¬ 
tainments which result in a substantial gain 
to the Fund to enjoy certain voting privileges, 
was unanimously adopted, and wc hope will 
have excellent results. 
Tk'he Dinner. — Through the kindness of 
^ Messrs. Wills & Segar, Mr. Laing, Mr. 
Cutbusli, and Mr. B. S. Williams, the fine hall 
at the Cannon Street Hotel, in which the 
annual festival took place, was superbly decor¬ 
ated with noble Palms and flowering plants, 
so that when the large and overflowing party 
of horticulturists were seated the coup Taft 
was very striking, as well as a charming one. 
The dinner was well served, the speeches were 
excellent, and the music enjoyable. There was 
also a very practical air about the speeches, 
especially when the suggestion was made that 
some other orphans should be enabled speedily 
to receive the benefits of the Fund. The 
remark that the company should rather think 
of the homes wherein there would be the next 
morning disappointment rather than joy, went 
home to all present, and following as it did upon 
Mr. H. J. A r eitch’s munificent offer of £100, 
and the chairman’s splendid lead of £25 addi¬ 
tional, it was impossible that the appeal then 
made could he resisted. 
We are by no means in accord with those 
who wish to see established a big reserve fund 
of £10,000. Any such accumulation of funds 
intended for the assistance of the orphans of 
to-day, would but serve later to dam up the 
sources of liberality in human nature. Still 
further, it is the duty of each generation to 
care for its own little ones, and that each gen¬ 
eration will do so we can have no doubt. We 
trust universal resistance will be offered to the 
proposal to form a big reserve fund. Let us 
help the orphans of now; perhaps ten years 
hence there may be no orphans needing help. 
In any case we regard it as little less than a 
crime to lock up money in the funds whilst 
there are still eight poor little orphans suffering 
from disappointment and from poverty. We 
must pay a tribute before leaving reference to 
the dinner to the admirable way in which Air. 
Shirley Hibberd succeeded Sir Julian Goldsmid 
in the chair. Air. Hibberd in his best moods 
is very genial and jolly, as well as prolific 
in humour. He was in one of his very best 
moods on Friday evening last. 
Tshe General Gathering. —Whilst the pro- 
^ vinces were represented by a few 
gardeners at the dinner, it was hut too obvious 
that the bulk of those present were of the 
metropolis and its neighbourhood. That is 
not perhaps all that can he desired, as we are 
most anxious that the anniversary gathering 
of the Gardeners’ Orphan Fund should be 
widely represented, and that the country 
should furnish as large a contingent as the 
town. It is certainly the case that the orphans 
know no locality, but are widely distributed; 
they are, indeed, more of the country than of 
the town, and that fact alone should not 
only encourage country gardeners to attend 
the yearly meeting, but should lead to some 
arrangement by which some of the provincial 
subscribers should also be encouraged to come 
to London for that purpose. 
It is doubtful whether the anniversary 
dinner has not been fixed at a time of the year 
when gardeners are peculiarly busy, and still 
further, when there is absolutely nothing pro¬ 
ceeding to bring them to London. For that 
reason few of the vocation care to embark in 
the expense incidental to a long journey, a 
dinner, and a night in town; whereas, were 
some important show or other horticultural 
attraction proceeding many country gardeners 
might find it possible to attend. In any case, 
as one time or another makes little difference 
to Londoners, the anniversary gathering should 
I he arranged with the fullest regard to the 
