Identifier: gardenerschronic16lond (find matches)
Title: The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects
Year: 1874 (1870s)
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Subjects: Ornamental horticulture Horticulture Plants, Ornamental Gardening
Publisher: London : (Gardeners Chronicle)
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
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Aberdare, President ofthe Royal Horticultural Society. His Lordshipwas supported by several members of theCouncil of the Society, by the leading men inthe market and nursery trades, by many enthu-siastic amateurs, and by a good sprinkling ofpractical gardeners, to the number of about 130in all. We do not remember any similar eventin the history of the Institution which excelledthis in the pleasant character of the pro-ceedings. In proposing the toast of HerMajesty the Queen, our Patroness, the Chair-man remarked that though Her Majestysreign had been marked by many triumphs,nothing was more remarkable than the immenseadvance that had been made in horticulturalprogress since 1S37, and which, it had beensuggested to him, was in a great measure dueto the acts of two of Her Majestys PrimeMinisters—the late Sir Robert Peel, whotook the duty off glass, and Mr. GLADSTONE,who removed the impost on bricks. Proposing Continued Success and Prosperity I The Gardeners Chronicle,) (July 9, 1881.
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Fig. II.—eremurus himalaicus t flowers white, (see p. 50.) 50 THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. (July 9, iSSi. to the Gardeners Royal Benevolent Institu-tion, the Chairman alluded to the remark-ably sound financial basis upon which theInstitution existed, for much of which thesubscribers were very greatly indebted to theirSecretary, Mr. Cutler, whose first festival,he would remind them, brought ^40 to the ex-chequer, and that was considered a fortunateresult. He would not stay to make comparisonsbetween the circumstances of the Institutionthen and now, but proceeded to ask what werethe claims of gardeners to such assistance aswas provided by the Institution whose aimsand objects they had met to (promote ? Theywere many. From the time of that grand oldgardener, Adam, no class had better ministeredto our material wants or contributed more largelyto the enjoyment of our greatest pleasures ; andon this point he would take leave to say, thatalthough a very high value was set on thecomestible prod

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