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EEPORT OF THE COUNCIL. 



£5,056 17 



Not alone the Exhibitors in the Garden have been thus largely- 

 rewarded ; those in Regent-street, at the ordinary meetings of 

 the Society, have also been constantly encouraged to exertion 

 by a similar though less extensive distribution of prizes. And 

 the Council confidently refer to the increasing skill in all 

 branches of horticulture which this country presents, as the best 

 proof of the advantages which such an application of the funds 

 of the Society produces ; affording as it does, to all classes of 

 intelligent gardeners, a continual opportunity of laying before 

 the public, in the most advantageous manner, the result of their 

 experiments ; and to nurserymen or others the means of bring- 

 ing into notice the- new plants which they procure. 



The annual expense of medals awarded in Regent-street has 

 been — 



£634 2 



In explanation of the decrease of charges under this head in 

 the three last years, the Council refer to the discontinuance of a 

 portion of the meetings of the Society during ten months of the 

 year. 



But while the exhibitions in the Garden and Regent-street 

 have thus been amply provided for, the Garden itself has been 

 maintained in a state of unimpaired efficiency. The Council 

 may refer to the numerous works which have been carried on 

 there, as has been already stated ; to the complete repair in 

 which every part of it has been kept ; to the considerable distri- 

 butions of plants and seeds which have been incessantly made to 

 Fellows of the Society and others ; and to the large numbers of 



