NEW CHARTER OF ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 5 1 3 



be balloted for can be had on application at the Garden Office 

 in South Kensington. 



Journal. 



Each Fellow will receive gratuitously a copy of any Journal. 

 Proceedings, or other publication issued by the Society. 



May lOth, 1861. JOHN LINDLEY, 



LXVI.— NEW CHAETER AND AGREEMENTS OF 



THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



VICTORIA, by the Grace of God, of the United 



Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Queen, 



Defender of the Faith, to all to whom these 



presents shall come, Greeting : 



1. WHEREAS THE HORTICULTUBAL SOCIETY OF LoNDON, ^*^^* Jjj^^^^j" 



herein-after referred to as " the said Society," was incorporated SJg^goSety 

 by Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of our said United by Letters 

 Kingdom, bearing date at Westminster the 17th day of April in Paten^ 49 

 the 49th year of the reign of His late Majesty King George the ''^°- • 

 Third, for the purpose of the improvement of Horticulture in 

 all its branches, ornamental as well as useful. 



2. And whereas it has been represented to Us that the said First 

 Society has sedulously pursued and successfully promoted the ^^^^^^^^^ 

 objects for which it was incorporated ; And it has been also repre- commis- 

 sented to Us that, with the view of still further promoting such sioners of 

 objects, an arrangement was lately entered into between the Com- ^^^^^^^J' 

 missioners for the Exhibition of 1851 (hereinafter referred to as igji ^nd 



" the Commissioners ") and the said Society, which is contained the So- 

 in certain Articles of Agreement, dated the 24th day of July, <='^*y- 

 I860, and sealed with the corporate seals of the Commissioners 

 and the said Society respectively, whereby it was agreed (amongst 

 other things) : first, that a piece of land at Kensington Gore, con- 

 taining 20 acres, or thereabouts, part of the estate of the Com- 

 missioners, should be leased to the said Society for a term of 

 years; secondly, that the said Society, immediately after the 

 execution by the said Commissioners of certain earthworks, 

 should lay out and construct on the land an ornamental garden, 

 with walks, trees, shrubs, terraces, steps, fountains, band-houses, 

 statues, and vases, and at the north end of the said land a con- 



