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PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
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by. 
е Љу ad Lr, for eountry herbaria; also 
1 from five Manchester bota- 
Mx on din ers "Vibe —Т have the honou 
be, sir, your most obedient servant, J. S. M 
The Seere of the 
°з Horticultural Society. 
P.S. s offered for collections of wild plan 
properly ied and named, will tend to o nad 
young gardeners and ers in endeavours 
aequire some knowledge of scientific botany. So 
far, good. t full county collect : I to 
destroy rare or loc les, wa 
and 
money of the collectors, and limit the competition 
to those who can spare time and ee е. 
If the prizes were offered for the best collections 
(as to names, S &c.) of 300 of the com- 
ie Aes untry, ver d ocal or 
unted or allowed, all the ыа, 
and none of the bad, would result. 
rage, common species will TM as 
cal instruetion as s ies do, 
pray betae Dr gardeners, ind 
know the plants which Жум only s s 
an to run about collecting rarities. J. S, M 
Other remonstrances came too late for i insertion. 
RzMONSTRANCE FROM Ехнївгговз wenig THE 
PROPOSED SEcoxp Dav's Ехнив 
The following remonstrance has ш bed 
to the Council by. the ашы whose names аге 
appended, viz. : 
To the Council of the Royal Horticultural Society 
of London 
We, your petitioners, cr һыу beg to inform 
you that in eonsequen ws schedule of the 
Royal Horticultural taining two days’ 
exhibition consecutively, we е out 
of justice to our respective employers, advise that 
their plants should be shown, our former experience 
convinced at the exposure on the 
second day materially injures the plants, especially 
those of the orchids stove plants generally. 
at the time occupied by the second day doubly 
de from our daily pursuits consequent to our 
employment ; that the expenses attendant to taking 
our produetions to and from the exhibitions, coupled 
by our double those of one day's 
nd We therefore pray that you ke these 
urgri are obvious to every practical 
exhib bitor) into your serious consid Mon, and 
rescind your second rds 8 show. 
It having ur knowledge that you 
purpose lighting the eins ory with gas, we be 
most песа to miei Ries that after one 
day’s ure ina dry hot a mosphere, the tw 
fom gis would be decidedly i injurious to wr 
eorge ener to A. Bas 
$ Stamford Hi : Bs, 
oseph Wheeler, Gardener to J. Phil 
Бе : tamford Hill. nei 
arles Penny, = to Н. Н. 
к, у D an r to Gibbs, 
в, Regent’s Par 
pm. С > найн to Sir F. H. Goldsmid, 
Ec 
Thom Pags, Gardener to W. Leaf, Esq., Streatham 
Esq., 
Esq., 
en Gardener to Mrs, Tredwell, Lower 
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quently printed forms wi 
| be filled up. 
m € Жаы to А. Anderson, ыц 
ood G 
jam Green, Garett to Sir Е. Antrobus, Ваң, 
eam, 
Henry Chilman Gardener to Mrs. Smith, Ashlead 
William Kaile, ue to the Earl of me 
East Horsley Tov 
Richard m бшм, R- ; 
John Wiggi ‚ Garde ener to W. Beck, Esq., ые 
wo 
me Smith, Gardener to His Ap the Date d 
mberland, Syon Hou 
William Taylor, Gardener to di "Yates, Esq. | "d 
ouse, Hi ghgate 
William bes ng, Gardener "to E. Barclay, 2d 
st Hill House, Highgate. 
James Weir, Gardener to Mrs, Hodgson, The Elms 
mpstea 
Willian. Mitford, Gardener to С. MeMorland, Eu 
ampstead. 
Thomas Baile ким to T. T. Drakes 
eg Amershan 
May, Qxxdener' sé. Tf P. У. Butt, 
William "May, Gardener to Josiah Spode, Es 
Hawkesyard Park, near Rugely, Staffordshire. 
To this letter e Council have directed the À 
lowing reply to 
Gentleme April = LM 
Your letter, (—— against the 
Mee s cete the Co rr 
ting to pd p yo meeti 
they have held des its recei 
Pee 
m direeted b Me to — | 
vee ines се it wit p 
t, 
are sorry to learn that you лн р = 
ste банан to your interests, which 
was not intended. ешеш, 
,In A" vit the pro s osed arrangem 
am to point out to you that for some years i 
has Pa found that the Flower Shows 
been on the whole rin pd! and are 
riskful owing to bad weather 
| em in which e xhibitors | re 
rested has véscivid itself into 
i be held at 
rable 
ought that а а sec 
pe an rations ды ae mi 
аз dece n for the 
neces; ыы к ттап 
the plants, and would lend ers 
xhibitors in doing s е о 
will be used afford ample facilities P^ fhem- 
and the ved invite you to № 
enable suitable arrangements s 
requisite to Bie information of 
of the plants pro to be © 
ce they will oceupy. For пах 
will Берге 
