Domestic Notices : — Ireland. lOo 



verified by three auditors, shall be presented. 5. That no operative be 

 admitted a member of this Society, except such as shall have been pro- 

 posed by one member of the committee and seconded by another 5 and 

 that no person whose character can be impeached with immorality or 

 intemperance can on any account be admitted a member; and if any 

 member should be found guilty of any such offence, he shall for the first 

 offence incur the censure of the Society, and upon repetition of the same 

 shall be expelled, forfeiting all subscriptions or donations which may have 

 been paid by him up to the period of expulsion. G. That gardeners, pre- 

 viously to becoming members of this Society, must have been occupied at 

 least five years at their profession. 7. That journeymen gardeners, pre- 

 viously to becoming members, must have been employed at least five years 

 in some noted garden or gardens. 8. Tradesmen of other denominations 

 may be admitted memliers of this Societ}', on paying the same amount of 

 subscription or donation as paid by ganleners, and shall be entitled to 

 exhibit plants, flowers, fruits, &c., for which they shall receive premiums in 

 every respect as if the same belonged to gardeners. 9. Length of service 

 is meritorious : and a premium shall be awarded to every gardener who 

 shall henceforth have served five years in one and the same situation. 

 10. That the committee be competent to make such rules and regulations 

 connected with the business of the Society as shall be deemed necessary, 

 the same to remain in force until rejected by a general meeting of the 

 Society. 11. Any member calling in question the judgment of those 

 appointed to award premiums, or attempting to evade any of the rules of 

 the Society, shall pay a fine to the amount of his annual subscription, or 

 be expelled the Society, as a majority of the committee shall decide. 

 12. All drafts for payment shall be signed by the chairman and three 

 members of the committee. 13. That the secretary shall not, at any 

 one time, retain more on hands than 10/. of the funds, for discharging the 

 current expenses of the Society, ll. That the funds be lodged in the 

 bank of Messrs. Latouche and Company. 



" That the science of horticulture has, since the commencement of the 

 present century, been advancing with imprecedented strides towards per- 

 fection, as well in England and Scotland as on the Continents of Europe 

 and America, whilst that in Ireland, during the same period, it has been 

 merely stationary, if not retrograding, is a truth not less certain than 

 humiliating to gardeners and the amateurs of gardening in this country. 

 Much, doubtless, might be ofl^ered in extenuation of this apparent apathj'. 

 The absence from the country of those whose affluence might put the 

 higher departments of the profession in requisition, and, consequent on this, 

 the paucity of gardens where all the branches of gardening are practised, 

 and where alone gardeners could be properly educated ; the limited in- 

 fluence, followed by the total failure of the Horticultural Societj', esta- 

 blished in this city in the year 1816, from which the aristocracy of the 

 country ever stood aloof; in a word, the total want of encouragement, 

 and of an experimental garden, such as, with the assistance of those in- 

 terested in the advancement of horticultural science, we hope to establish, 

 with various other causes, have conspiretl to render a country, which for its 

 climate and soil has been evidently intended by nature to exhibit the per- 

 fection of horticulture, a blank in the history of the science. On tiie utility 

 of horticultural societies, judiciously conducted, there is not any diversity 

 of opinion; and with the proceedings of those that have long flourished to 

 guide us, and of those that have failed and are failing to warn us, we con- 

 fidently hope to be enabled to follow the one and to avoid the other. It 

 being of the first importance that the experimental garden should be esta- 

 blished with as little delay as possible, and the fumls at present in the 

 hands of the treasurers not being adequate to that purpose, all persons 

 wishing to become members will have the goodness inunediately to signify 

 such their intention to the secretary. All communications on the busmess 



