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REPORT or THE COUNCIL, 



Alterations in Arboretum, &c. 

 Completion of American g-artien 

 Construction of Orchard House for growtli 



of Roses ...... 



Miscellaneous expenses in altering and 



improving the Garden 



The Distribution department continues to work satisfactorily, 

 the following having been the numbers of plants, &c., given 

 away. 



But although the Committee announce with satisfaction that 

 the value of the articles distributed has very materially improved 

 under the new regulations announced in the last annual Report, 

 they at the same time feel that the period has arrived when it is 

 desirable once more to despatch a collector of plants in search of 

 horticultural novelties. The Council have concurred in this 

 opinion, and it is now seriously under consideration whether 

 an agent may not be advantageously employed in some of the 

 temperate regions of South America. With regard to the 

 Scotch expedition to Oregon, towards the exp^ise of which the 

 Society subscribed in the year 1850, there is still nothing to 

 report, except that it continues to remain without result. 



The assistance rendered to the Garden by its correspondents 

 has been unusually large, as will be seen from the following list 

 of presents, in addition to those large supplies from Messrs. Lane, 

 Lucombe and Pince, Osborne, Paul, Rivers, and Veitch, which 

 have been acknowledged in a former part of this Report. 



From C. A. Uhde, Esq., of Handschusheim, near Heidelberg, Seeds of 

 the Russian Forget-me-Not, and a purple Potato raised in Ger- 

 many from the Mexican Potatoes formerly given to the Society by 

 Mr. Uhde. 



From Sir Thomas Acland, Bart., a Plant of Escallonia macrantha. 



