April  25,  1901. 
JOURNAL  OF  HORTICULTURE  AND  COTTAGE  GARDENER . 
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FRUIT  TREES, 
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FIGS,  ORANGES, 
AND 
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No.  joS’i.-VoL.  XLII..  Third  Seriks. 
Joui’iral  of  !jortti|itltutii', 
THURSDAY.  APRIL  25,  1901. 
Garden  or  Hall? 
Hall  and  Garden? 
'UR  Royal  Horticultural  Society 
will  shortly  attain  to  the  honours 
of  its  centenary.  As  a  rule  the 
individual  centenarian  owes  his  or 
her  extended  existence  to  an  un¬ 
eventful  and  undistinguisbed’progress 
through  this  vale  of  tears.  The  cen¬ 
tenarian  more  frequently  than  not  is  a 
pauper.  In  looking  back  upon  the  career 
of  this  our  venerable  and  admirable  mother- 
society,  the  phases  of  it  which  strike  the 
imagination  are  her  resplendent  youth,  her 
embarrassed  maturity,  and  her  opulent  age.  She 
may  be  said  to  have  started  by  keeping  open  house 
for  all  the  beau  monde  and  celebrities  of  the  day ; 
later  on  she  found  this  association  expensive, 
leading  to  complications,  compositions,  and  what 
not;  and  now,  wonderfnl  to  say,  having,  unlike  the 
majority  of  patriarchs,  grown  in  wisdom  and 
sobriety  with  her  octogenarian  years,  she  finds  her 
revenues  increasing  so  inordinately  that  she  can 
think  of  nothina:  better  to  do  with  her  money  than 
to  bury  much  of  it  in  a  carefully  concealed  garden 
somewhere  in  the  neighbourhoods  of  Limpsfield  or 
FarniDgbam. 
4  Time  was  when  the  fortunes  of  the  Royal 
Horticultural  Society  were  more  brilliant  than 
solid  ;  when  the  fetes  became  the  resort  of  the 
most  fashionable  of  the  haut  ton ,  and  figured  as  a 
conspicuous  event  of  the  London  season.  These 
fetes  took  place  at  Chiswick,  which  in  those  days 
was  more  secluded  and  more  rurally  environed 
than  now.  But  whether  the  metropolis  presented 
fewer  distractions  than  at  present,  or  whether  the 
very  seclusion  from  city  turmoil  added  a  charm  to 
the  excursion,  the  fact  remiins  that  until  perhaps  in 
recent  years  the  glories  of  the  Chiswick  exhibitions 
have  never  been  equalled  and  never  surpassed. 
We  are  all  of  us  ouly  too  willing  to  forget 
the  wretched  years  of  wrangling  and  impe- 
cuniosity  spent  at  South  Kensington.  lhe 
READERS  are  requested  to  send  Notices  of  Gardening 
Appointments  or  Notes  of  Horticultural  Interest. 
Intimations  of  Meetings,  Queries,  and  all  Articles  for 
Publication,  officially  to  “THE  EDITOR,”  at 
12,  Mitre  Court  Chambers,  Fleet  Street, 
London,  E.C.,  and  to  no  other  person  and  to  no  ©the* 
address. 
