PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
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ors gie I believe that certain ng Mies were | numerous objects that the town affords for 
act , and the opinion of the jurors was taken | gratification of the stra: d then alluded to 
either ro ballot or by show of hands. uide the claims sterdam has on the res f 
the great number and variety of object to be adju- | botanists and horticulturists its past servi 
dicated upon, the Searg of the jury were very | to botany and horticulture ight have led, 
satisfactory. Occasional mistakes, giving rise to | as a reason for selecting this pe сабау í interesting 
individual co t were of course inevitable; | city as a meeting-plaee, the Wm к — simple 
and the rut of the jury was in some few | courtesy of the inhabitants, and, to an English- 
instance objection, but this seems to hav he might have held out the апау of race, 
been rather from жең e ote of. the positas гь ami thought, and pursuit. After this formal 
T f the foreign members than | inauguration, Vice-Presidents and other officers 
а ап ee ause : A of our dis- | were appointed, and the future meetings divided 
tinguished pomologists was appointed to d into sections—one for p tany, presided over 
on the e bouquets, &e. Ille by Professor Fée of Strasburgh, with 
arising fro 8 cause were generally erii Oudemans and orren as Secretaries ; on 
this 
by the numbers serving on the jury. weh 
the num a 
seemed on the mis im- 
Judicious, no prize being awarded i 
many instances where sufficient merit was s 
attain As 
I must not omit 2 allude to the ip. 
the Seok Verbal o a 
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logue of objects exhibit ; 
bot he French and in the Dutch languages. 
The eatalogue is especially hri d of жены 
from its completeness. It for n 8vo. volum 
of nearly 200 pages, and hens 3 " fret of i; a 
of the officials of the various societies con- 
nected with the pore orl a code of regulations, 
lists of the don 
the guarantors 
and a very Соне lit at the plants shown by 
each exhibitor—t mbers in the catalogue cor 
responding to the аде affixed to the бй 
In 
tions in the е palace. In some cases of large genera 
and families, e.g., Agave, Cactee, the arrangement 
A was of a “ entific ide eter. Such a 
as à permanent value, as affording a more 
or less com 
lete n Mansi of the plants in 
cultivation, or at least of such as come within the 
вео = ае, 
h nata 
previous Congress at Bru russe 
others met hee for the first ti an 
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espondence or "d for many 
at wonder, then, if [e x ering was 
le 
for such а purpose—the Cry 
Palace, the facilities fo or transit, the pictures and 
and one 
for applied botany and hor "rs under the 
meme of Professor Koch of Berlin. The 
rs I forward with this will тайса: ate the nature 
bd extent of the оса proposed for discussion, 
a 
full re sy Se ort of whic 3 will hereafter be published. 
I will merely mention the names эй bip 
Chatin, Кө: Reichenba ch, Oudemans, Morren, 
Regel, Caspary, Wilkomm, as gu ees for th 
ue о 
ferns, tlie rd s, the 
glazing of ево, shies нь д of hybrids by 
grafting, бге. &e. At these eat n and elsewhere 
cea s > interests of 
held, and with what respect the names of M 
Hooker, Berkeley ред. other English botanis 
held. Great ааны was expressed i the 
val of Mr. Berkeley and Mr. Tho 
non-arrival mas 
oore. I ventured also to exp: pe that 
we should shortly have a similar ional 
gathering in London, in which , I requested 
the members pre contribute from their 
stores and to honour us wit. nce. 
these 
some of 
рый t the wishes у 
ord of mouth, but fes n the form of a written 
proposition рете меблевих of дык &e.), 
in the printed Report of the 
be ungracious in the extreme to close 
oti а 
It would 
- notice without grateful allusion to the hos- 
d 
reading-rooms 
mus rget the frd 
for its i nee than for the “ émpremément " Е 
able or its e ва и 
h 
Congress be кк to 
area дачей" and the association ees many 
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