Abstract
When an organisation has had an active existence since 1804 and embraces such a wide-ranging activity as horticulture, it is not surprising that it has acquired a number of medals to indicate approval in the different areas of its concern. With a few exceptions the details of awards made by the Horticultural Society of London, renamed the Royal Horticultural Society in 1861, were published in accessible form, but the relationship of one medal to another, and details of cost, size and metal used, for instance, are not so easily found. What follows is an attempt to fill a gap, and to correct some errors in the history of the Society (Fletcher, 1969). Dr Fletcher relied on a 350-page typescript by Arthur Simmonds, former Secretary of the Society, who was asked to write the history on his retirement in 1962, but was unable to finish it before his death in 1968. What Simmonds wrote on the medals was used by Fletcher verbatim.
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