MAY 1, 1852. 



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books on horticulture or allied subjects for wliich they have not 

 themselves any use. . 



The number of Visitors to. the Garden has not materially 

 increased, notwithstanding the unusual influx of foreigners, the 

 total admissions, exclusive of the days of exhibition, liaving been 

 6964, rather more tlian 200 above the number in 1850-51. 



The only other point to whicli the Committee would allude 

 is the general expenditure of the Garden, the details of which for 

 the last three years are given in the following table. 



1849-50 1850-51 



Garden labour 



Implements, mats, seeds, &c. • • 



Tan, dung, &c 



Coals and coke for Garden . . 

 Miscellaneous expenses at Garden 



Gai'den repairs 



Distribution expenses .... 

 Exhibition expenses .... 

 New works at Garden .... 

 American Exhibition expenses, 1851 



Total .... 



1851-52 



£. s. d.\ £. s. d. 



1010 15 Oil077 19 6 



113 15 5 116 8 10 



28 6 1 50 1 11 



147 16 l' 129 7 



183 13 2i 140 3 5 



107 6 111 92 12 5 



214 13 8| 170 15 1 



1562 10 10 1107 2 1 



231 18 1 



1044 3 2 



3600 15 3 3928 7 



£. s. 



1332 1 

 118 8 

 31 11 

 96 13 

 127 16 

 109 5 

 124 15 



1145 6 

 360 2 

 275 5 



3721 7 3 



Tlie chief item which appears to require explanation in this 

 account is the charge for labour, which would seem to have 

 largely increased, although in reality that is not the case. It 

 will be remembered that at the last anniversary it was announced 

 that various changes had been made in the management of the 

 labour ; that permanent mowers had been substituted for the 

 desultory system previously in force ; that the lawn in the 

 Arboretum would be no longer allowed to grow rough in autunm 

 and winter ; that the distribution department had been altered, 

 and a small increase of Mages had been given to some of the head 

 men. There can be no doubt that the Garden has benefited by 

 the alteration, and that it is at the present moment in a state df 

 greater efficiency than it ever was before : and at the same time 

 the expectation expressed by the last Committee that the new 

 arrangements would not be attended with increased expense lias 

 been entirely justified, for it will be seen by the follo\^ing table 

 that the labour account in the last three years has been respec- 

 tively 1546/., 1568/., and 1554/. 



