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THURSDAY,  OCTOBER  23,  1902. 
Provident  Gardeners. 
XE  who  has  most  minutely 
chronicled  the  history  of 
English  horticulture  down  to 
his  own  era,  a  full  generation 
ago,  records  the  existence  in 
the  England  of  one  hundred  years 
ago,  a  mutual  benefit  society  of  gar¬ 
deners.  “Adam’s  Lodge”  was  founded 
in  London  on  the  4th  of  June,  1781,  as 
“  a  fraternity  of  gardeners  to  establish  a  fund 
for  the  mutual  support  and  relief  of  each 
other  in  time  of  sickness,  lameness,  or  dis¬ 
tress  ;  ”  and  the  illustrious  Loudon,  who 
preserved  so  much  that  was  valuable  by  his 
writings,  adds  that  in  1824  “the  Lodge” 
consisted  of  150  members.  From  lack  of 
monetary  support  in  proportion  to  the 
demands  upon  its  treasury,  this  earliest 
gardening  benefit  society  slowly  drooped,  and 
finally  jessed  away. 
Thirty-six  years  ago,  however,  another 
institution,  having  exactly  the  same  purpose 
and  aim,  was  originated  at  the  Green  Dragon 
Hotel,  Bishopsgate  Street,  in  the  City  '  of 
London,  and  the  United  Horticultural  Benefit 
and  Provident  Society  is  to-day  swelling  its 
sphere  of  useful  operation  to ’'every  parish 
throughout  these  teeming  Isles.  As  we  write 
a  statement  of  the  work  and  privileges  of 
this  society,  prepared  by  its  treasurer,  Mr. 
James  Hudson,  Y.M.H.,  comes  to  us,  and  the 
facts  herein  stated  we  are  pleased  to  publish. 
Mr.  Hudson  says  of  the  society  : — “  Like 
many  other  such  institutions,  its  progress  at 
first  was  slow.  Thanks,  however,  to  its 
friends  and  supporters,  its  merits  were  real¬ 
ised  by  some  of  those  for  whom  it  had  been 
constituted,  and  for  the  past  sixteen  year 
there  has  been  an  uninterrupted  run  of 
prosperity.  Twenty-one  years  ago,  in  1881, 
the  membership  was  only  eighty-eight ;  in 
1886  it  was  177  ;  in  1891  the  number  was  413  ; 
I  READERS  ar;  requested  to  send  notices  of  Gardening 
A  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  other 
address. 
