34 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
cil have introduced into their programm 
in tages to those irse 
uni 
thus afforded for mutual — d it is con. 
templated that such an union may help forward 
the system proposed for encouraging ies edueation 
of garden 
16. It - ‘also under consideration, whether it 
might not eonduce to the p of — 
to hold a "Provincial Meeting, лкт о those р 
воше he other scientific societie y in 
one 
the important centres of gardening interest, vin 
time during the autumn 
17. The Coun cil n given much consideration 
ы. the desirability of further improving the scien- 
е services of the 
- The Council are endeavouring to improve 
the scientifie action of the Society фу the ринг 
n 
y Mr. Berkeley” under the 
е Floral Committee, which 
from t time to time in the 
- The that the Ex 3 : 
mental andes o of | the Society at Chiswick Á- s been 
eful to the progress of Horticultur 
у, been carried оп. 
- The Council deeply regret, h - 
grad mede Р y regn заана, to ап 
of Mr. Weir have b for 
rape present реу m sg а close e a seri i il Sed 
ып ev тяг, he is still lying a to- 
у paralysed, but the last mail let intelli 
| ves amendment, and it 
fori be. he may shortly be able to retu i 
country. In the n nd ie 
measures to alleviate his Mares 80 far as it is 
possible for them to do so ty be- 
fel him, he i 
, he had gai rilliant success. His 
ments contai oe the finest collection of 
valuable plants which have been import many 
th be oted 
r,and many others are under propagation for bal- 
e among the Fellows during the ne d y months. 
22. The Council are able to t Her 
Majesty continues to take the liveliest interest in 
the procedings of e Soe өчен and has expressed 
herself in high terms of ¢ а а on the im- 
provements which goes р made in the Gardens. 
+1 Д the R + 
Aw puri, 
аначы of the oa ретро: p. of gar- 
den ners, and 
ated 
tinuation of the work of glazing the peers of th 
— — had been com ced. 
DREW SCOTT rw "edid the mo- 
Ms Gopson, jesse, es 2 n an nM 
ment for the appoi t of a co en quire 
into the finanei xe cond liti ion x the 
ciety. He pepe in detail uei pides of 
accounts which NUM produeed, a 
their truthfulnes 
guarding 
himself from bang reals ois to agree dn every 
respect with what the mover had said. He con- 
sidered that the rei on of the Horticultural 
Society with the Commissioners of 1851 was 4 
great calamity. 
. Core reviewed in detail the statements i 
Mr. Godson, which, he eontended, were 
e 
aved the Social 
n; an M the members of the 
had inereased from about 900 to about 3,000 or 
4,000, pesi: ке still i increasing. 
Mr, Сготтох, the ко, сонор on some 
of the а of Messrs on, and asserted 
t the a 
hey 
endment, but it had sai ado pted by by the 
Pines Committee when Mr. Godson, senior, WaS 
their chair са 
. THe a Commissioner, a Fellow, x 
a Debenture-l Кош, deprecated Ри constant flt 
wi 
the aep. to give an emphat ith 
again disclaimed деа = "He 
all that Ta fallen from the Messrs, Godson. 
did not intend to accuse the Council of mis stale 
facts, and h hoped he had said nothing to Mot 
feelings of PS felt 
ATEMAN, эуе E крс the pain he 
at the чалчу brought by the Messrs. Godson, 
id:—Let us е n of Ж 
moment, I must, for my p 
part, maintain that Chiswiek is in а most 
cient state as far and in connexion with for 
departments in which, making 
