N.Z. INSTITUTE OF HORTICULTURE.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18220, 3 November 1924, Page 13

N.Z. INSTITUTE OF HORTICULTURE.

CANTERBURY COUNCIL.

A meeting of the Canterbury Council of the New Zealand Institute of Horticulture was held on Saturday evening. In the unavoidable absence of the president (Dr. C'has. Chilton) Mr A. W. Buxton was voted to the chair.

The secretary (Mr A. 11. ShrubskaJl) reported that the Kaiapoi Horticultural Association had affiliated with the Institute. A letter was read from the Dominion president, Dr. L. Cockayne-, F.K.S., outlining the scheme of work decided on by the Dominion executive in connexion with preparing a scheme of horticultural education suitable to conditions in the Dominion. Each council is Doing asKed to prepare and submit suggestions to the Dominion executive. Inn 7atest information was being obtained from England, the Continent, and America, so that the committee may be able to give as exhaustive a. report as possible. It was decided to receive Dr. CV.rkavnn s letter and to reply that the work asked for would be undertaken as eoou an possible. The Dominion secretary, Mr Geo. AGreen, reported the setting up of an Kditorial Committee, and staled that a: ran pent cnts had been completed "or the puijhea.t,ion of a. quarterly bulletin, which would be free to members. The initial work :n respect of nomenclature had been started. A •■.Species" Committee had been appointed, consisting of Messrs W. R. D. Oliver iconvctndr\ B. C. Aston, Dr. H. H. Allen, ant. Dr. Cockavnc, with power to add. It wi»s "cxolained that as far as possible existino- organisation would be used to further the work. It will be necessary to divide it into two main sections, i.e., that dealing with native piante, and second wnn imported plants. ■U the surest ion of the chairman it wa.-> decided to draft a lea Jet «vtting forth the aims of the Institute. . .-,,„„,„■, Mr A 11. Hacs; (one o: the vice-president.") -.tinted out the need ?or the aims of the Institute to be widelv know,.. It was an or-gani.-ntic.il winch woulo help ad cx,s ; n S bor-fu-ultural interest, and conflict with none It was worthy of seneral support, and iw value was alrer.dy being recognised o> those who realised what ite arms stood writ was reported .that the bud selection work was bein<r maintained, and citrus trees we e now included, and about 10.000 buds were beinsr supp'.ied this spring by the affiliated citrus associations.