§ Major GLYNasked the First Commissioner of Works whether he will consider the advisability of urging upon the authorities of Kew Gardens to take up a neutral position in testing out new varieties of plants in order that the general public may go there and actually see whether varieties of plants sent out by nurserymen in different parts of the country are really all they are represented to be, since genuine nurserymen would be only too willing to give such stock to Kew Gardens for trials to be carried out and the fact of new species being produced proved or disproved?
Sir A. BOSCAWENThis work is undertaken by the Royal Horticultural Society in their gardens at Wisley in a purely impartial manner and there is no need for the duplication of such work. The trials at Wisley can be seen by the public and full accounts are published by the Royal Horticultural Society in their journal as well as in the horticultural Press. Even were it desirable to duplicate such work there is no space available at Kew for carrying out trials of this kind.