. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. ce on Tuesday next in the Societys hall,Vincent Square, Westminster. At 3 a lec-ture on The Evolution of Plants and theDdrectivity of Life as shown by VegetativeStructures will be delivered bv Rev. Prof. , , Horticultural Club.—A House Dinner ofthe Club will take place on Tuesday, the 17thinst., at , at the Hotel Windsor. Afterdinner Mr. Arthur Pullen Burry will delivera lecture entitled The Efficient Movement, ofLarge Glass Structures and its Economic Valueas Applie
. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. ce on Tuesday next in the Societys hall,Vincent Square, Westminster. At 3 a lec-ture on The Evolution of Plants and theDdrectivity of Life as shown by VegetativeStructures will be delivered bv Rev. Prof. , , Horticultural Club.—A House Dinner ofthe Club will take place on Tuesday, the 17thinst., at , at the Hotel Windsor. Afterdinner Mr. Arthur Pullen Burry will delivera lecture entitled The Efficient Movement, ofLarge Glass Structures and its Economic Valueas Applied to Intensive Culture. The lecturewill be illustrated with lantern slides. Marketgardeners desiring to be present should communi-cate with the Hon. Sec, Mr. R. Hooper Pear-son. Gardeners Royal Benevolent Institu-tion.— The seventy-fourth anniversary festivaldinner of the Gardeners Royal Benevolent Insti-tution will take place at the Hotel Metropole,Northumberland Avenue, on the 25th inst. de Rothschild, who will preside at thedinner, makes an appeal for increased support to. CV=. R[bc H Rp^ Fig. 169— p.£onia delavayi : flowers crimsox. (See page 405.) 404 THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. [June 14, 1913. enable the Fund to continue its good work amonggardeners or the widows of gardeners who are inneed of help. Mr. Rothschild points out thatthe sum of £4,500 is required yearly, of whichamount only £950 is assured from invested hundred and fifty-eight necessitousgardeners or widows of gardeners are at presentreceiving pensions from the Fund, and since itsinstitution a sum of i,o less than £140,000 hasbeen distributed by the charity. A National Botanic Garden for SouthAfrica.—The project of establishing a nationalbotanic garden fcr South Africa, which has beenurged often and from various quarters, appearsto be at last in course of realisation. A definiteproposal to establish such a garden was madein the House of Assembly on Wednesday. May 7,and was accepte
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