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will probably take place in time to benefit G. R. G., we recom- 

 mend him to continue to store his mind with all kinds ot 

 knowledge that he can bring to bear upon his profession. — 

 Cond. 



Art. XXI. Reasons for not subscribing towards the Form- 

 ation or Support of the Garden of the Horticultural Society 

 of London, with some Remarks on the Management of the 

 Society generally. By Mentor. 



Sir, 



Presuming the pages of your Magazine to be open to the 

 discussion of every subject relative to horticulture, I send 

 you the following observations as containing my reasons for 

 not subscribing towards either the formation or support of the 

 garden of the Horticultural Society of London, as also some 

 remarks on the management of the Society generally. 



Having been elected a Fellow prior to the establishment 

 of the garden, I have lately received a circular from the coun- 

 cil, reminding me that former applications from them rela- 

 tive to the garden are still unnoticed, and enclosing to me 

 certain explanatory notes relative to the mode in which each 

 class of the Fellows are to be treated, so far as regards the 

 amount of their donations and subscriptions thereto. Now, 

 as I reside very many miles from London, I cannot, under 

 those regulations, have any inducement either to increase 

 my subscription or become a donor, for I consider the 

 original Fellows of the Society, or at least such of them as 

 have not thought proper to increase their subscriptions, have 

 been very unceremoniously turned to the right about, and 

 shorn of an equal share of the privileges which they were 

 entitled to expect by the charter, notwithstanding the great 

 exertions they have made, jointly and severally, to promote, 

 as much as in them lay, its interests and well-doing, and 

 having by their great and constant attention assisted mainly in 

 placing it on the high ground on which it at present stands ; 

 while those Fellows who have been elected since the formation 

 of the garden, who have merely complied with the regulations 

 existing at the time of their admission, but who have not once 

 pulled at the labouring oar by which the Society has been 

 called into notice, are allowed advantages which I am de- 

 cidedly of opinion (and I am not singular in this respect) 

 they are not by any means exclusively entitled to. And furtherj 

 I firmly believe that by the expensive principles on which the 

 garden is now conducted, the seeds of its own ruin are already 



