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MR. J. S. L. GILMOUR, who has just been appointed director of the Royal Horticultural Society's gardens at Wisley has boeen assistant director at the Royal Botan Gardens, Kew, since 1931, although during the War he was seconded to the Ministry of Fuel and Power. While at Kew he showed himself to be an able administrator, and his genuine and assiduous interest in the welfare of the student-gardeners will engender a feeling of personal loss beyond the circle of his immediate colleagues. It is a happy augury for the future of horticulture that the directorships of the Royal Gardens, Kew, and the gardens at Wisley should be thus held by men linked by ties of friendship and common interests. Changing economic conditions must inevitably bring about considerable re-orientation of the pursuits and interests of the fellows of the Royal Horticultural Society and thus influence the purpose and policy of their Gardens, so that our good wishes go out to Mr. Gilmour in his difficult but interesting task.
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Mr. J. S. L. Gilmour. Nature 158, 92 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/158092a0
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