February 24, 1900 
THE GARDENING WORLD 
413 
than are the Cyclamen, although they, too, have a 
nasty trick of stubbornness under certain conditions 
of treatment. Cool-house treatment they certainly 
prefer. Water they like in goodly amount, a rich, 
friable loam, too, and freedom from the pestering 
suction of green flies, &c. A somewhat balmy, 
half-moist air, firm potting, and moderate root room, 
may one and all be taken as salient factors in their 
culture. 
STATICE SUWOROWI. 
For a bedding plant above a groundwork of some 
sort of procumbent plants, this pinkish flowered 
Statice may be borne in mind. It is employed 
largely in the London parks for such a purpose. It 
makes a useful auxiliary for the florist in the make¬ 
up of winter bouquets. For this purpose seeds must 
be sown early in June, and the plants which result 
therefrom may afterwards be accorded attentive 
treatment, such as are given to Eupatoriums, &c. 
The watering is a point to be careful with. 
ROYAL GARDENERS’ ORPHAN FUND. 
Report and Statement of Accounts for 1899. 
The twelfth annual general meeting of subscribers 
to the above fund was held at the Essex Hall, Essex 
Street, Strand, W.C., on Friday, February i6tb, 
1900. “ In presenting their twelfth annual report 
the committee have pleasure in congratulating the 
subscribers on a year of steady progress, the receipts 
from all sources stowing an increase of £75 is. 2d., 
which is satisfactory as indicating that, notwith¬ 
standing the great difficulty experienced in collecting 
subscriptions, owing to the many urgent appeals 
made to the benevolent for support in aid of the 
various patriotic funds, the Royal Gardeners’ Orphan 
Fund has not only been able to hold its own, but 
also to increase the amount of the year’s aggregate 
allowances made to the orphans. The revenue 
derived from subscriptions and donations, though 
showing an increase on the previous year, reveals a 
sensible decrease in the amount collected by local 
secretaries, a circumstance which the committee can 
only regard with some anxiety, though they have 
reason to believe that the falling off in this source of 
income is only temporary, the result being due 
rather to the difficulty experienced in collecting sub¬ 
scriptions than to any slackening of the efforts of 
those who have hitherto done so much in support of 
the fund. In common with most other charitable 
institutions, there is only too much reason to fear 
that the fund may suffer from the pressure of the 
times during the coming year, but the committee 
sincerely trust that the supporters of the institution 
will assist them to the uttermost in their efforts to 
avoid such a deplorable contingency. To maintain 
the usefulness of the fund unimpaired should be the 
aim of every one interested in gardens and gardening, 
and the committee more especially appeal to garden¬ 
ers themselves to increase their efforts on its behalf 
of collecting small sums in their own districts. 
The number of children who have been elected to 
the benefits of the fund during the past eleven years 
is 113, and the total amount which the committee 
has been enabled to distribute among the destitute 
orphans during that period is £7,711 2s. 6d. The 
number of children now on the fund is seventy-two, 
exclusive of those elected at the annual meeting. 
The committee desire to acknowledge with grate¬ 
ful thanks the keenly appreciated services rendered 
to the fund by Alderman Sir. Reginald Hanson, 
Bart., M.P., who so kindly presided at the Annual 
Festival, and whose cordially expressed appreciation 
of the work carried on by your committee, and his 
most forcible appeal for support on its behalf, 
resulted in a subscription list amounting to £602 12s., 
a result which was the more gratifying in that the 
festival had, for unavoidable reasons, to be held at 
a later period of the year than usual. 
It is with extreme pleasure the committee make 
the announcement that Lord Battersea has very 
kindly consented to preside at the next festival, 
which has been fixed to take place on Tuesday, May 
8ih, at the Cafe Monico, 46, Regent Street, W. 
By the recent death cf Mr. Alfred Outram the 
fund has also lost the services of a devoted worker, 
and the committee,a colleague whose genial presence 
and whole hearted sympathy with the objects of the 
fund will be greatly missed. The seat vacated by Mr. 
Outram’s death has been filled by the election of 
Mr. Peter E. Kay, Claigmar, Church End, Finchley. 
The resignation of Mr. J. Cheal has also been re¬ 
ceived, and the vacancy filled by the election of Mr. 
W. R. Alderson, Bell Farm, Hersham Road, 
Walton-on-Thames. 
The retirement of Mr. Marshall and Mr. Herbst 
is an incident in the history of the fund which your 
committee cannot but deeply regret, and their 
colleagues desire to place on record their high sense 
and appreciation of the valuable moral and material 
support which these gentlemen have so ungrudgingly 
rendered to the fund. Mr. Herbst, one of the 
founders of the fund, was one of the most 
constant attendants at the meetings of the 
committee until struck down with illness, from which 
he has unhappily not yet recovered, and the com¬ 
mittee ask the subscribers to signify their apprecia¬ 
tion of his good and faithful service by according 
him their special thanks. Mr. Marshall’s services 
to the fund as chairman since the lamented death 
of Mr. George Deal in 1830, have been invaluable, 
and as a slight recognition of the uniformly courteous 
and efficient manner in which he has so loDg 
and so faithfully discharged the duties of bis office, 
the committee have the pleasure of nominating him 
for election of vice-president. 
The committee again most cordially acknowledge 
the generous and most practical manner in which 
the treasurer, Mr. Sherwood, has continued to 
assist the fund, and warmly thank him for his 
valued services during the past year. To the 
auditors, Mr. Martin Rowan and Mr. Peter Rudolph 
Barr,the hearty thanks of the committee are accorded 
for their patient and exhaustive audit of the accounts. 
Mr. Rowan is the retiring auditor, and is nominated 
by the committee for re-election. 
The committee are unanimous in nominating their 
secretary, Mr. Brian Wynne, for re-election to that 
office. 
CASH STATEMENT FOR THE YEAR ENDING 
DECEMBER 3isr, 1859. 
Receipts. 
To Balance from last Account. 
,, Subscriptions . 
„ Donations ... . 
„ The Emma Sherwcod Memorial. 
,, Annual Dinner. 
„ Advertisements In List of Subscribers ... 
„ Miscellaneous Receipts . 
„ Dividends on Stock and Interest on Deposit 
£ s. d. 
658 13 5 
345 ” 8 
278 13 2 
13 o o 
602 12 0 
27 18 o 
3 3 7 
273 17 5 
£2,203 9 3 
Note.—Investments: 
23 per cent. Consols .£7,070 
3 per cent. Canadian Stock ... '2,000 
L. and N. W. Railway Pre F . 
Stock . 
Thomsen Memorial Trust: 
East Indian Railway B. Ann¬ 
uity of £14 (cost) . 
340 
430 11 
Expenditure. 
By 
Allowances to Orphans 
Emma Sherwood Memorial 
Grants in Aid. 
£ s. d. 
£ f- d. 
£9l6 15 0 
13 o o 
13 17 6 
- 973 12 
155 9 
Annual Dinner. 
Secretary's Salary . 
Printing and Posting List of Subscribers 
Printing and Stationery . 
Annual General Meeting aid Audit 
Hire ol Room for Meetings. 
Advertising .,. . 
Illuminated Vote of Thanks to Mr. Barron 
Postages. 
Bank Charges. 
Sundry Expenses (Petty Cash) . 
Balance- 
Cash at Bank . 728 14 0 
Cash in Hand . 37 10 5 
Cash on Deposit. 100 0 0 
99 13 0 
27 9 6 
81 o 9 
866 4 5 
£2. 203 9 3 
Having Inspected the Securities and examined the Books 
and Vouchers supplied to us, we hereby certify the above 
Account to be correct. 
(Signed) P. RUDOLPH BARR 
M, ROWAN 
Dated January 30th, 1900. 
A uditors. 
After having read the report which was put before 
the meeting by the chairman, the adoption being 
seconded by Mr. W. Roupell, and unanimously 
agreed to, the secretary read a letter from the 
Bournemouth Gardeners’ Association. This re¬ 
ferred with regret and disapproval upon the terms of 
rule II., which allows more than one member of a 
family to receive support from the institution. Upon 
the motion of Mr. R. Dean, the proposition of the 
Bournemouth Gardeners’ Association was relegated 
to the executive committee for consideration. In 
his remarks, Mr. R. Dean supported rule II. and its 
bearings, explaining in so doing, that only in ex¬ 
treme cases of family difficulty did the committee 
ever recommend two children from one family. The 
funds and the standing of the Gardeners’ Royal 
Orphan Fund were not likely to suffer from their 
hitherto policy. Mr. H. J. Jones seconded. The 
following resolutions were put before the meeting 
and unanimously adopted :— 
(r) By Mr. A. W. G. Weeks, chairman, seconded 
by Mr. W. Roupell, “That Sir Reginald Hanson, 
Bart., M P„ and Mr. W. Marshall, be elected as 
vice-presidents of the institution.’’ 
(2) Also proposed by the chairman and seconded 
by Mr. R. Dean, "That owing to the lamented death 
of their late friend and trustee, Mr. Sydney 
Courtauld, that office being vacant, Mr. Wm. Sher¬ 
wood be elected to it.” 
(3) Proposed by Mr. H. B. May, and seconded by 
Mr. C. E. Osman, “ That Mr. N. N. Sherwood be 
re-elected treasurer.” 
(4) "That Mr. N. N. Sherwood be elected chair¬ 
man,” proposed by Mr. H. B. May, seconded by 
Mr. Osman. 
(5) Proposed by Mr. Assbee, and seconded by Mr. 
Poupart, “ That Mr. Martin Rowan and Mr. 
Rudolph Barr be re-elected auditors.” 
(6) Proposed by Mr. A. Dean, and seconded by 
Mr. J. Fraser, ” That Mr. A. W. G. Weeks, Mr. 
H. J. Jones, Mr. R. Dean, Mr. W. Bates, Mr. H. B. 
May, and Mr. G. Reynolds, be re-elected as members 
of the committee." 
(7) Proposed by Mr. Morris, and seconded by Mr. 
R. Barr, "That Mr. Whitpaine Nutting, ic6, South¬ 
wark Street, S.E., and Mr. E. G. Monro, Covent 
Garden, W.C., be elected to the vacant seats on the 
committee.” 
(8) Proposed by the chairman, seconded by Mr. 
H. B. May, “ That the committee appreciating their 
great loss in the retirement of Mr. H. Herbst, convey 
to him their sincerest thanks for his long continued 
and ungrudging labour during his period of office, and 
sympathise with him in his illness.” 
(9) Proposed by the chairman, and seconded by 
Mr. Assbee, " That Mr. Brian Wynne be re-elected 
secretary at a salary of £100 per annum." Mr. G. 
T. Wyles, representing Southampton and dristrict, 
corroborated the remarks made in respect to the 
ability and courtesy of Mr. Wynne as secretary. 
Mr. Wynne appropriately replied, after which the 
meeting dispersed till the closing of the ballot 
At half past four, the following names were an¬ 
nounced as elected, with their respective number of 
votes: 
1st, Hilda Kathleen Mary Rogers, 506 (189)* 
2nd, Aaron Hall, 470 (91). 
3rd, Winifred Moxham, -,.29 (160). 
4tb, Charles Arthur Dranfield, 427. 
5th, John Baird, 254 (41). 
6th, Edward White, 237 (63). 
7tb, Geo. William Stevens, 153. 
8ih, Margaret May Wcod, 148. 
gtb, Sarah Louisa Emily Laogley, 135. 
The remaining two children were placed on the 
list for relief, on the proposition of the committee, 
through the chairman ; and this was sanctioned by 
those present. Since the printing of the voting 
paper there were three other urgent applications for 
relief; and they were also placed on the list for 
relief, making a total of fourteen children placed on 
the fund on this occasion. 
Annual Friendly Dinner. 
After the usual business of the annual general 
meeting the subscribers, committee, and supporters 
of the fund met together to partake of the annual 
friendly dinner at Carr’s Restaurant, 265, Strand, 
W.C., at 6 p.m., under the presidency of Mr. George 
Monro, of Covent Garden. Amongst the company 
present we noted Messrs. N. N. Sherwood, J. Assbee, 
W. Bates, G. H. Cuthbert, W. Howe, H. J. Jones, 
J. Lyne, H. B. May, J. F. McLeod, T. A Morris, 
W. Poupart, A. W. G. Weeks, B. Wynne, Percy 
Wynne, Edward Kromer, A. J. Monro, 
H. Cutbush, John Russel), G. J. Ingram, 
R. H. Pearson D. B. Crane, John Pinches, 
P. Rudolph Barr, Geo. Barr, J. W. Moorman, 
Berry, J. Fraser, and E. Cuthbert Nunn, 
F.R.C.O., A.R.A.M., the latter being the organist 
to Leytonstone Parish Church, who on this occasion 
acted as accompanist on the piano. 
After the usual loyal leasts, proposed by the chair¬ 
man, and well received, he then proposed the 
" Royal Gardeners' Orphan Fund," of which he gave 
a brief history from its foundation iu 1887, to com¬ 
memorate the year of Her Majesty's jubilee. He 
recalled the splendid meetings held ia Covent 
Garden Flower Market, when the market men first 
came seriously to the aid of the fund, which, since 
* Denotes the number of votes received at last poll. 
