HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16156, 9 March 1918, Page 5

HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.

I A meeting of the committee of the Canterbury HorlicuHr.ra' Society was held in tho Society's «yilit:e last right, Mr F. C. ' Raphael presiding over a good attendanco. I A letter was read from tho Gcraldino HorI ticullmal Society, asking the Sscwty to proj test agiiu the imposition of t'n; amusement tax on horticultural societies, which were ' r.ot run for profit, but for education and I scientific purposes. It was decided to write j asking for a refund of tho tar. j An appeal on behalf of the Royal Horti- • cultutal Society, England, frcm LieutenantI Calorie! E. Mayficld, representative of the i Horticultural Belief Fund, for funds to rc- • storo tl'.o damage done bv the v/ar in Allied I countries, was discussed, and held over for j further information. I Some fine exhibits were shown by the foli lowing:—Mr \V. G. C. Beumelberg, Amaryllis Belladona anil Colchicum Byzantinum: Mr C. G. Clark, secimen of Plumbago Capen- ! kk: Mr Pcrulsen, ri"w roses, including Lord Kitchener, Gladys Holland, K. of K., Francis Soott Key, lJonald Macdonald, Mrs Bryce Allen, Crimson Emblem, W. C. Gaunt, Mrs Glen Kids ton, Nellie Parker, Janet, Con-, ettmoe, and Mrs Mackellar. 1 '