Encouraged by this success, competing horticultural societies appeared during the 19th Century.

Today, the horticultural society is still cultured, but in a different way.

A horticultural society is an organization devoted to the study and culture of cultivated plants.

Quiet, modest, and retiring, although an active member of horticultural societies, he would never make a public speech.

The odd combination was established in 1845 by a horticultural society.

He became a keen member of his local church starting a horticultural society and becoming a church warden.

Tilehurst has a horticultural society which holds a produce show annually in August.

He was elected to a number of positions in the agricultural, horticultural and geographical societies.

"Both artistically and technologically, we wanted to show that this isn't your grandmother's horticultural society any more," he said.

Mr. Farnham was the executive secretary of the horticultural society from about 1950 to 1966, when he retired.