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tion made in 1850 by the president in his 

 customary address. 



"Premiums should be offered, and 

 gratuities be given, by the society, under 

 the direction of a committee appointed 

 for that purpose, whose duty it should be 

 to visit and examine such places as the 

 proprietors should invite them so to do, 

 at such times and as often as they might 

 deem proper, without any previous notice 

 having been given to the gardener, super- 

 intendent, or other person having charge 

 of the same, that the committee might be 

 able to form a correct judgment as to the 

 general management and state of cultiva- 

 tion on the premises, and to report to the 

 society the most successful cultivators at 

 home, as the other committees report the 

 finest products exhibited in the hall of 

 the society. " 



The excellent advice given by Down- 

 ing many years ago in one of his Essays 

 is here worthy of mention : " We think 

 there can scarcely be a question that an 

 examination of the best examples of taste 

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