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Earl of Leicester, after paying 8 years' subscription, byl „, ,« rt 



further payment of J 



B. Edgington, Esq., after paying 14 years' subscription, \ 9 „ ~ q 



by further payment of . . . . . J 



W. Aldam, Esq., after paying 9 years' subscription, by 1 ,i i n n 



further payment of . . . . . J 



J. Rogers, Esq., after paying 20 years' subscription, T , n ( . 



by further payment of . . . . . J 



Rev. J. H. Horner, after paying 7 years' subscription, 1 o-j i q a 



by further payment of . . . . . J 



Alderman "Wilson, after paying 20 years' subscription, 1 n\ n 



by fui'ther payment of . . . . . J 



With a view to the greater extension of the utility of the Monthly 

 Meetings in Eegent Street, and to the further encouragement of 

 good cultivation at all seasons and in all branches of Gardening, 

 the Council gave public notice, last October, that Medals and 

 Certificates of Merit would be given at each General Meeting 

 during the years 1852 and 1853, according to a Schedule and 

 under certain regulations thereto annexed; not, however, to the 

 exclusion of other objects of horticultural interest, for which prizes 

 would continue to be given, provided the Exhibitions possessed 

 conspicuous merit. A trial of this plan, during the six winter 

 months, although not attended with all the advantages expected 

 from it, partly from the very bad weather, partly, as it would 

 seem, from Gardeners not being prepared for the change, and in 

 some measure from the difficulties inseparable from all unexpected 

 alterations, has upon the whole worked so well as to induce the 

 Council to continue the plan, hoping more especially that the 

 admission of Kitchen Garden produce to exhibition will have the 

 effect of improving that most useful branch of Horticulture as 

 much as public Exhibitions have stimulated the more attractive, 

 but not more important departments, of flower and fruit gardening. 

 The following is a Return of the number of Medals awarded in 

 Regent Street between April 1, 1852, and April 1, 1853 : — 



1. Flowers. 2. Fruits. 



1 Large Silver Medal. 1 Knightian Medal. 



11 Knightian Medals. 13 Banksian Medals 



13 Banksian Medals. 

 1 6 Certificates of Merit 



41 



27 Certificates of Merit. 

 41 



Vegetables. 



4 Banksian Medals. 

 8 Certificates of Merit. 



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