380 Intelligence and Miscellanies. 



their labors, and that of their receipts and expenditures, as 

 hkewise to propose and distribute prizes or give medals of 

 encouragement. 



The general secretary is particularly charged with making 

 the report, to the general meeting, of the labors of the soci- 

 ety, and of conducting the correspondence with learned 

 societies. 



The progress and perfection of the art being founded on 

 experience and observation, the society will take measures 

 to procure at Paris or in its environs, a garden, where it will 

 be able to verify facts, to make essays concerning the culture 

 of useful or ornamental plants, and observe the new species, 

 that may be received from distant countries so as afterwards 

 to distribute them in France, according to their qualities. 

 The formation of this garden depends, in a great measure, 

 on the state of the society's finances; and its great utility is 

 so incontestable, that it does not fear urgently to solicit the 

 subscription of all such as feel interested in the prosperity of 

 their country. The moderate subscription, fixed at thirty 

 francs a year, is, in some degree, compensated by the jour- 

 nal, which it publishes monthly, and which is distributed gra- 

 tuitously to all the members. 



The annals of the Horticultural Society, which must be- 

 come the depository of all the facts, all the experiment^, all 

 the inquiries, and all the writings relating to horticulture, 

 ought to be, at the same time, the bond, that shall unite, in 

 heart, spirit and labor, with the council of administration re- 

 siding at Paris, all the members of the association scattered 

 through the different parts of the kingdom. For it is not 

 necessary that these members should be regarded as sub- 

 scribers merely because they do not actually form part of 

 the council of administration. Each member of the society 

 is alike one of its fellow laborers. Whenever they visit Pa- 

 ris, it is their duty, it will be for their interest, and we flatter 

 ourselves that it will enter into the arrangement of their 

 pleasures, to assist at the meetings where they will have 

 the privilege of debating, and the times for which will, 

 for this purpose, be regularly pointed out on the cover 

 of each number of the Annals ; and all, in whatever direc- 

 tion, and at whatever distance they may be situated, to what- 

 ever branch of horticulture they may devote their studies or 

 their labors, are alike invited to a co-operation, which will 

 be so much the more beneficial as it shall be tne more uni- 



