The Gardeners' chronicle - a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects (1903) (14780688731)

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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
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries



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d as members of theExecutive of the late Nature-Study ExhibitionAssociation, we venture to bring the undertakingto your notice, and to intimate that, after care-fully considering the results and reports of lastyears exhibition, the committee has drawn up ascheme, with schedules, which may be obtainedfrom the Honorary Secretary, Mr. Wilfred MarkWebb, at 20, Hanover Square, W., who will grate- J ame s W. Withers, whose death we recentlyrecorded, was Presidentof the American GardeningPublishing Co., and business manager of the paperof that name. He died at Kingston, Jamaica, onApril 13, from a long-standing chronic disease ofthe kidneys. Mr. Withers was born at Welch-pool, Montgomeryshire, Wales, forty-two yearsago, and was the son of the steward and factoron the estate of the Earl of Powis. At an earlyage he was apprenticed to the gardening profes-sion at Vaynor Hall, one of the old-time famousgardens of Great Britain, and he evinced suchaptitude in his chosen work that at the early age
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Fig. 113.—the ghent quinquennial: showing the arrangement of the azaleas and other plantsin the temporary annexe. (see p. 267, in last issue.) mittee, and the list of patrons already includesthe Countess of Bective, Lady Frederick Caven-dish, the Marquess of Ripon, the Earl of Aber-deen, the Earl of Stamford, the Bishop ofHereford, Lord Herries, the Right Hon.Henry Hobhouse, M.P., Sir George Keke-wich, Sir Joshua Fitch, Sir Philip Magnus,find the officers of the recent Nature-study exhi-bition—Sir John Cockburn. Mr. C. S. Eoundell,and Mr. J. C. Medd. Upon the committee willbe found such well-known naturalists, edu-cationalists, and public people as the Right Hon.-James Bryee, M.P.,the Right Hon. JesseCollings,M.P., the Hon. Walter Rothschild,,M.P., Sir JohnHutton, Mr. G. Herbert Morrell, M.P., Mrs.Brightwen, Mrs. Franklin, Mrs. Owen Visger, fully receive all offers of help in the form ofprizes, donations, subscriptions, and suggestionsas to exhibits. We sincerely trust that this e