May 2nd, 1885. 
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ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 
ORCHID CONFERENCE 
AT SOUTH KENSINGTON, MAY 12-13. 
TWO SPECIAL NUMBERS 
OF TEE 
GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
THE 
GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE 
(Pi-ice 5d., Post-free, o^d.) 
For MAY 9th -will contain a 
SPECIAL 8-PAGE SUPPLEMENT, 
CONTAINING AN ALPHABETICAL 
LIST of all the GENEVA of ORCHIDS, 
TOGETHER WITH A 
MAP 
(2 ft. S ins. by 1 ft. 7 ins.), 
Showing their Geographical Distribution according to 
CLIMATE, RAINFALL, &c. 
FORTRAIT of Sir TREVOR LAWRENCE, Bart, M.P., 
President of the Royal Horticultural Society and 
of the Conference, &c. 
THE 
GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE 
(Price 5d., Post-free 51d.) 
For MAY 16th wiH contain a 
DOUBLE-PAGE ENGRAVING REPRESENTING A 
GROUP OP ORCHIDS, 
A PORTRAIT OP 
PROFESSOR REICHENBACH, 
The Historian of the Orchid Family; and a 
FULL REPORT OF THE ORCHID EXHIBITION AND 
CONFERENCE. 
Both Numbers will contain a variety of Illustrated Articles 
relating to 
DOUBLE-FLOWERED ORCHIDS, 
To the Structure and Mode of 
CULTIVATION of these Plants, and to the Insects and 
Parasites that attack them, together with much information 
of interest to 
Amateurs and Professional Cultivators. 
Both the above Numbers will the sent free on 
receipt of lid. Stamps. 
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CACTUS AND OTHER DAHLIAS. 
A most interesting group, consisting of several 
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DOUBLE SHOW AND FANCY VARIETIES. 
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€\t (Ssrknmg fflorffr. 
SATURDAY, MAY 2nd, 1885. 
The Proposed Potato Conference. — As 
compared with the reception accorded the other 
day at a meeting of florists to the proposed 
Primula Conference, it seems that whilst the 
latter has found the accompaniment of a wet 
blanket, the former will find hearty co-operation. 
The proposal to hold a conference on matters 
relating to the Potato, emanates from the fertile 
brain of Mr. Shirley Hibberd, who has long 
occupied a prominent position in Potato matters, 
and who in suggesting this conference is actuated 
by a desire to render Potato theory, if the term 
may be so used, popular amongst practical 
growers. It is purposed to hold the conference 
on the second morning of the exhibition ofPotatos 
and of other garden produce, which will take 
place on October 27th and 28th next, in the con¬ 
servatory of the Koyal Horticultural Society’s 
Gardens, South Kensington, when no doubt a 
large number of cultivators of the esculent, and 
others interested in it as an article of commerce, 
will be present. 
It might well have been thought that a 
conference of the kind proposed would have 
been originally associated with the International 
Potato Exhibitions so long held at the Crystal 
Palace. These were originally established to 
promote the culture of the Potato, to increase 
its popularity as an article of food, and to make 
it interesting and pleasing’ as an exhibition 
subject, and it would have well harmonized with 
such considerations had an annual or even a 
triennial conference been a portion of the exhi¬ 
bition programme. 
The committee of that exhibition has done 
something practical in its work at Chiswick 
in relation to the censorship of seedlings, and 
judging by what has been sent in for growth 
this season, it seems probable that a heavy duty 
will he thrown on the Seedling Committee later 
on. Of course, in association with work of this 
kind, knowledge is acquired that cannot fall to 
the lot of many to gather, and such knowledge 
may well he utilized in any conference on the 
Potato that may arise. As the International 
Potato Committee, however, have not adopted 
the conference as a part of its programme, it 
cannot complain if it is taken up and utilized 
elsewhere. Neither will it, we are assured; indeed 
we may go farther, and assume that as far as 
possible that body will willingly render what 
assistance lies in its power. 
As to the nature of the topics to be conferred 
upon or discussed, that may well be a matter for 
consideration. It is hardly worth while to con¬ 
vene such a gathering as is proposed, and then 
allow it to take a merely theoretical or imprac¬ 
tical form. Necessarily there must be much talk, 
but the value of that talk depends upon the quality 
of the information it encloses, or rather discloses. 
We may learn through the conference much that 
is new and valuable concerning Potatos. We 
may learn nothing. Gardening papers nowadays 
have become congresses for the discussion of 
topics that provoke differences, and the discus¬ 
sions are usually of a thorough character. The 
