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Art. XVI. Proceedings of the Horticultural Society. 



In a former Number, we promised to notice regularly the pro- 

 ceedings of this interesting and highly useful society, which, 

 through the energy of its management, and the fascinating 

 nature of the objects to which its attention is directed, has, in 

 a few years, attained a consequence and stability that may rank 

 it with the first societies in the kingdom. 



We now proceed to fulfil that promise, and shall commence 

 with the fifteenth anniversary of the society, held on the 1st 

 of May, 1819. On this occasion it was removed from the 

 apartments of the Linnean Society in Gerrard-Street, where 

 its meetings had been hitherto held, to a very commodious 

 house and spacious meeting-room of its own in Regent-Street. 

 The business of the anniversary is principally the election of 

 officers, and the members of the council for the ensuing year. 

 On this occasion all the officers were re-elected ; and no other 

 change was made in the council than that which the laws of 

 the society enjoin, namely, the removal of three in rotation. 



After the proceedings had closed, near a hundred members 

 dined together at Almack's Rooms, in King-Street, St. James's. 

 When the cloth was removed, a Report on the state of the 

 society was read, by which it appeared that the total number of 

 the society on that day was 601, of which 220 had been elected 

 in the preceding year. It also appeared that the society had pre- 

 sented twenty silver medals within the year to different persons 

 for their skill in various branches of Horticulture. 



At the meeting of the 18th of May, a paper by Mr. William 

 Masters, jun., was read, on the various species of the Genus 

 Phlox, in which, after distinguishing the different species and 

 varieties, Mr. Masters gives practical directions for their culti- 

 vation. 



A paper descriptive of an improved frame for forcing vines 

 was read, communicated by Sir Robert Vaughan, bart. ; toge- 

 ther with a model of the frame. The diflTercnce of this frame 



