February 14, 1903. THE GARDENING WORLD. 133 
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EDITORIAL NOTES. 
I lb Culture by Children. 
'Ve are pleased to notice that the municipal 
i iiorities at Dundee are still encouraging 
cultivation of bulbs and other plants by 
' dren. The services of the Dundee Hor- 
ltural Association have also been enlisted 
r he interests of the children. The Town 
hncil of Dundee and the gardeners’ 
> ©ties and associations are nothing if not 
' gressive. 
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1 e Holland House Show. 
JVe are pleased to notice that the Rose 
' >w at Holland House last year was so 
[ Hy a financial success. According to the 
f ires, only £15 18s. lOd. was necessary to 
| c made it financially successful. Under 
the depressing circumstances of the King’s 
illness in June last, it is quite a surprise that 
the show was so successful in itself, and so 
nearly successful financially. 
Fruit and Vegetable Show. 
It is somewhat surprising that the Crystal 
Palace authorities should have been averse 
to- the holding of an exhibition of vegetables 
there, seeing that in former times they were 
so successful and talked about throughout 
the country. The Royal Horticultural 
Society has done the proper thing in taking 
the matter into their own hands, by announc¬ 
ing their intention of holding an exhibition of 
British-grown fruit and vegetables at Chis¬ 
wick next September. The estimated cost 
will be £350 to' £400, and those interested 
are expected to raise at least half the money. 
If the vegetable men are as loyal to the 
society as the fruit, people hitherto have 
been, there should be no difficulty in raising 
the necessary amount. Since the society 
commenced holding a show of British-grown 
fruit a great impetus lias been given to the 
industry in more ways than one. Not till 
then were we aware that fruit of such high 
quality could be produced in this country. 
Where one had a good exhibit in the early 
days, there are now numerous exhibitors 
whose fruits are quite up to the highest 
standard. Much improvement has been 
made through imitating those who were 
amongst the most successful in the early days 
of this exhibition; and where one could 
possibly grow good fruit, a hundred could do 
so equally well after they had got into the 
secret of culture, provided the climatic condi¬ 
tions were equal. 
-O'— 
“Journal” of the R.H.S. 
We note that the- expenditure on tliei 
“ Journal ’’ is annually increasing, and also; 
that when the price was still relatively small 
there were those who were alarmed, or pre¬ 
tended to be so, at the enormous ex¬ 
pense attached to the production of a 
journal. Independently of increased size, 
it must be remembered that the number 
has also been increased in order to 
meet the requirements of the continually 
growing number of Fellows. The cost 
for the past year was slightly over £1,808. 
Comparing the “ Journal ” with that of 
the Linnaean Society or the Royal Agri¬ 
cultural Society, the Fellows have reason to 
be satisfied that they receive as much and as 
useful matter for their money as the Fellows 
of the societies just mentioned. 
-Oi— 
Royal Botanic Society. 
Tire preliminary arrangements of the above 
society show that the exhibition of spring- 
flowers will be held on Wednesday, April 1st. 
Messrs. Waterer, of Bagshot, Surrey, will 
have their exhibition of Rhododendrons daily 
during June. Messrs. Barr & Sons, Covent 
Garden, will maintain a display of hardy 
flowers during the same period. Musical 
promenades will be held every Wednesday 
from June 17th to August 5th inclusive. 
Botanical lectures will be held on Friday 
afternoons at four o’clock during May, June, 
and July. 
-O'— 
Old Trafford Botanical Gardens. 
It seems strange that the Old Trafford 
Gardens, which have done such signal service 
for the town in bygone times, should be so 
much neglected by the modem population of 
the place, and more particularly by the 
powers that be. The fine old gardens at 
Manchester are not the only ones which have 
suffered in this way; although we should 
like to see them past their difficulties and 
become an efficient institution as of old. We 
believe that Glasgow Botanic Gardens lay 
under a somewhat similar difficulty in bygone 
times, when of a somewhat private character. 
Until the people of Kelvinside could be in¬ 
duced to pay their share of the rates, so that 
the gardens should be taken over by the Cor¬ 
poration, the gardens and their fine glass¬ 
houses practically lived a lingering life, very 
little seen except by students and a few 
friends of the curator, who had access to 
them. Since they have been taken in. hand 
by the Corporation they have once more 
attained a flourishing condition, with full 
admission for the public. It would be a 
thousand pities if the Old Trafford Gardens 
were allowed to drift into the hands of the 
builder. 
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A Free Gift of £22,000. 
It was a very happy expression of the 
president of the Royal Horticultural Society 
on Tuesday last, in which lie stated that they 
had received a gift of £22,000 towards the 
building of the New Hall. Many societies 
and even private individuals, with smaller 
courage than that of which the R.H.S. should 
be possessed, would go forward with the 
building of the Hall after receiving encour¬ 
agement with a present of a much smaller 
sum than the alcove. He submitted that 
they had had many criticisms with regard to 
the New Hall, but he hoped that the society 
would adhere to their previous resolution. 
We are pleased to say that there appeared to 
be no wavering on the part of the Fellows 
about adhering to their resolution to build 
the Hall. The announcement that 212 new 
Fellows had already been elected this year 
should have been sufficient to strengthen 
their courage, even if they had previously 
felt somewhat nervous on the subject. The 
old bogey of Chiswick was again brought 
before the Fellows for the' purpose of frighten¬ 
ing them, but the latter did not seem to be 
alarmed in the matter. 
