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THE GARDENING WORLD 
December i7, 1904. 
look upon the idea with favour. After a little discussion on 
a suggestion that officials who were unable to attend the society’s 
meetings should vote by proxy (subsequently withdrawn), the 
motion was carried unanimously. The following are the first 
appointments : —Boston : Messrs. E. J. Deal and W. R. Porter ; 
Spalding: W. J. Atkinson and G. Massey; Lincoln: G. D. 
Blanshard and F. Pickering; North Lines.: T. J. Blaydes; 
York: — Jeff, Poad ; Warminster: Hy. Scott; Cambridge: 
Prof. Middleton and Mr. W. Hensliaw ; Dundee: W. P. Laird ; 
Perth : J. Gardiner and L. Anderson ; Dumfries : M. Wallace 
and D. Arnott; Edinburgh and the Lothians : Harry Hope and 
W. Davie; Jersey: E. J. Ashelford Montrose : D. Spence; 
Reading: Prof. Percival and Mr. C. Foster; Wisbech: R. AV. 
Green; Cranhook : H. Finch am and H. Baker; Oxford: J. E. 
Jefferies and S. Heaton; Faversham : Al. F. De Laure and 
F. Pincott; Belfast: J. M'Dowell and Wesley Forbes; Win¬ 
chester : S. W. Breadmore; Kelvedon : AA r . Deal and AV. Cutli- 
bertson ; Bedford : Zecli. Gray. 
Next Year’s Show. 
In order to assist the executive committee in their choice 
of a place for holding next year’s exhibition, a test of the 
feeling of the general meeting was taken. This was in favour 
of London, with possibly another exhibition in the provinces. 
Edinburgh and Doncaster were next in favour, securing an 
equal number of votes. 
Organising Secretaries. 
The following gentlemen were elected secretaries of the trials 
committees: —Mr. AV. Bruce, Edinburgh; Mr. A. Dean, 
ACM.H., Surrey; Mr. W. Dunkin, Warwick ; Mr. M. J. R. 
Dunstan, Wye’; Mr. J. Ettle, Somerset; Professor Gilchrist, 
College of Science, Newcastle-on-Tyne; Mr. W. Goaring, East 
Sussex; Mr. S. Heaton, Oxford ; Mr. G. H. Hollingworth, 
Gloucester; Mr. A. H. Lancaster, Sendholme, Surrey; Mr. 
G. T. Malthouse, Shropshire ; Mr. P. Mann, Bucks ; Mr. W. 
Neild, Cheshire ; Mr. J. C. Newsham, Hants; Mr. Tlios. Red- 
ington, Yorks; Mr. J. C. Rusliton, Staffs; Mr. J. Udale, 
Worcester; Mr. C. Wakely, Essex; Mr. J. Weathers, Middle¬ 
sex; Mr. H. J. Wright, Kent; Mr. John'Wright, V.M.H., 
Surrey; Mr. T. J. Young, Holmes Chapel. 
Executive Committee. 
Chairmen and correspondents of district committees, also 
organising secretaries of trials committees, have votes on the 
executive committee. To this body were added the following 
names by special vote : Dr. Masters, Professor W. J. Malden, 
Mr. Edwin Beckett, Mr. James Gibson, and Mr. Edwin Moly- 
neux. As many members declared their inability to attend 
committee meetings in London except on special occasions, the 
following gentlemen were chosen to form an executive sub-com¬ 
mittee:—Dr. Masters, Professor Malden, Professor Percival, 
Messrs. A. Dean, V.M.H., C. Foster, G. Gordon, Y.M.H., and 
Horace J. Wright. 
Board oe Arbitration. 
A suggestion was made by Mr. W. Davie that something 
should be done to avert the disastrous effects of lawsuits on 
the Potato industry. As an instance of what might be expected 
from trial by jury in cases requiring the adjudication of experts, 
he mentioned that in one particular case six of the jury were 
tailors! This matter was fully discussed, and, as a result, it 
was decided to issue with the annual report a list of Potato 
experts, being trade growers and members of the society, whose 
services could be sought as arbitrators. The list is as follows : — 
T. J. Blaydes, Epworth, Doncaster; W. Cuthbertson, Dobbie’s 
Seed Farms, Marks Tey, Essex ; W. Davie, 38, Market Street, 
Haddington, N.B. ; E. J. Deal, W. AV. Johnson and Son, Bos¬ 
ton ; Wm. Deal, Brooklands, Kelvedon, Essex ; J. D. Blanshard, 
Bardney, Lincoln ; J. Gardiner, Perth; Zecb. Gray, Everton, 
Sandy, Beds ; R. W. Green, Wisbech ; E. T. Marsh, 15, Borough 
High Street, London, S.E. ; George Massey, 17, Market Place, 
Spalding; Jeff. Poad, Fulford, York; T. A. Scarlett, Market 
Street, Edinburgh ; and J. F. Williamson, Summer Hill, Mal¬ 
low, Ireland. 
NATIONAL ROSE SOCIETY. 
Report of the Committee for 1904, 
The report which the committee have now the pleasure of 
presenting must, in their opinion, be regarded as the most 
favourable that has yet been placed before the members, for 
there is not a single branch of the work undertaken by the 
society which does not show during the past year a distinct 
Advance. 
The metropolitan exhibition, which again took place, by the 
kind permission of the Benchers, in the Temple Gardens, was 
one of the largest, and certainly the most varied and interest¬ 
ing, the society has yet held, while the average quality of the 
exhibits was at the same time exceptionally good. In fact, con¬ 
sidered as a whole, it may justly claim to have been the finest 
Rose show ever held in any part of the world. The weather 
previous to the exhibition was, throughout a great part of the 
country, very favourable, while the fixture, July 6th, proved 
singularly well-timed, bearing in mind that during June and 
tfi© early part of July the season was a somewhat backward 
one. The arrangements connected with the show were, on the 
whole, very satisfactory. This was in a great measure due to 
the experienced staff of the Royal Horticultural Society having 
been again so generously placed at the disposal of the committee 
on the show day by the president and council of that society. 
In order to maintain the general interest in this, the leading 
Rose show of the year, several new features are annually intro¬ 
duced. These appear to have been much appreciated, especially 
by the visitors, who were more numerous than at either of the 
two previous exhibitions held by the society in the Temple 
Gardens. 
Although a provincial show was not held this year in the 
North of England, no break was allowed to take place in the 
long series of interesting competitions for the society’s two 
Jubilee Challenge Trophies, which were, with the consent of 
the committee, competed for instead at the Bath Rose Show 
on July 14th. It had often been proposed that the committee 
should hold an exhibition in September, in order to bring before 
the public the large number of Roses now in cultivation which 
bloom freely in the autumn, but not until the present year 
has this been found practicable. For a first venture, the 
autumn Rose show held by the society, in conjunction with the 
Royal Horticultural Society, in their new hall in Vincent 
Square, in September last, has been generally considered a 
great success. The committee are encouraged to think that 
when better known this very interesting and instructive exhi¬ 
bition will fully justify the new departure in the way of Rose 
shows that has now been made. It may here be mentioned, as 
showing the friendly feeling existing between the two societies, 
that on the occasion of the opening, in July last, of the magni¬ 
ficent hall where the autumn Rose show was afterwards held, 
a congratulatory address was presented from the National Rose 
Society to His Majesty the King, as patron of the Royal Agri¬ 
cultural Society, in reply to which address an equally cordial 
message has since been received, signed by the president, 
treasurer, and secretary of the Royal Horticultural Society. 
It is with the deepest sorrow that the committee have to re¬ 
cord the sad loss the society has sustained in the death of their 
president, the late Dean of Rochester, which took place on 
August 27th last. It may not be generally known that Dean 
Hole presided at that memorable meeting of rosarians in 1876 
when the National Rose Society was formed. He was at once 
elected president, a position he has occupied, with ere at benefit 
to the society, ever since—that is to say, for the last twenty- 
seven years. The loss of Dean Hole to the society is in many 
ways an irreparable one, for he occupied an altogether unique 
position in the Rose world, as being the great apostle of Rose 
culture, so that wherever Roses are mentioned the name of 
Dean Hole '■must long remain inseparably connected with 
them. It is proposed early next year to set on foot a fund in 
order to establish a suitable memorial to the society’s late 
president, to which fund many of the members will, no doubt, 
be glad to contribute. 
The committee also announce with much regret the recent 
death of the Rev. A. Foster-Melliar, one of the society’s most 
valued vice-presidents. He had just completed the revision of 
a new edition of his “ Book of the Rose,” one of the most com¬ 
plete and practical works on Rose culture, particularly from an 
exhibitor’s point of view, that has yet been written. He was 
himself a keen exhibitor, and in 1893 won the society’s Tea and 
Noisette Challenge Trophy. His kindly presence will be much 
missed, both at the annual meetings and at the exhibitions. 
The bye-laws and regulations of the society have year by year 
received various additions and amendments, but the committee 
feel that the time has now come when those additions and 
amendments should be brought into line, and the whole series 
overhauled. The constitution, rules, bye-laws, and regulations 
which will in their place be submitted to the meeting to-day, 
have been drawn up with much thought and care by Mr. C. E. 
Shea, assisted by a small committee of experts in such matters. 
Another sub-committee, which lias also been doing good 
work during the past year, lias been that appointed to prepare 
