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delay in the appointment of a treasurer. It is farther proposed, that a full 

 account of the Society's debts and credits shall be printed with the report 

 of the auditors at each Anniversary, and publicly read on that day. 



"Without adverting to the causes of the proceedings and discussions 

 which have of late unfortunately agitated the Society, the Council trust that 

 a general interest in the common welfare will induce the Fellows to sacri- 

 fice all personal feelings, and to unite henceforward in one general object, 

 viz. that of placing the Society upon such a solid and permanent basis, as 

 will enable it to maintain the character which it has acquired as an Institu- 

 tion of national importance, having paramount claims to encouragement in 

 the United Kingdom, and having already extended the benefits of its labours 

 through every quarter of the globe." 



May 4. — Read. An Account of an economical Method of obtaining 

 early Crops of Potatoes ; by T. A. Knight, Esq. 



Exhibited. Sweeney Nonpareil Apples, from T. N. Parker, Esq. One 

 hundred sorts of Apples, from Mr. Hugh Ronalds, F.H.S. Models of fruit 

 of Apples, Pears, &c, by Mr. W. Tuson (these may be had of Mr. Thos. 

 Goode, 15. Mill Street, Conduit Street). Several sorts of Tulips, from 

 Mr. H. Groom. 



Also, from the Garden of the Society. The following sorts of Apples : — Old 

 Nonpareil (kept in pure sand), Sussex, Framboise, New England Sweeting, 

 Skirm's Kernel, American French Crab, Keeping Red Streak, Nine Part- 

 ners' Russet, Calville Rouge de Pentecote, Norfolk Beaufin, and Bedford- 

 shire Foundling. Also Flowers, as under : — Valerianella congesta ; Pyrus 

 floribimda, pubens, grandifolia, melanocarpa, ^orunifolia, arbutifolia, inter- 

 media, and sorbifolia ; i?6sa Banks^ liiteo ,' Caltha palustris pleno ; double- 

 flowering furze, double tulips, parrot tulips, show tulips ; Pssonia Moidan 

 rosea, Banks?'^, and papaveracea ; ^E'sculus glabra ; Ribes aureum seroti- 

 num ; Pssonia officinalis, albicans. 



Though the reformation which has taken place in this Society is consi- 

 derable, it is by no means such as, we think, will eventually lead to the pay- 

 ment of its debts and its permanent establishment. We have no doubt, 

 however, that it may linger on awhile, and we hope long enough to pay off 

 all debts, and till Mr. Lindley meets with something as good, or better, than 

 the vice-secretaryship. As to the public, whether the Society dies a year 

 sooner or later is a matter of no sort of consequence. — Cond. 



A correspondent writes as follows: — It is a curious anomaly in this 

 the largest gardeners' club in the world, that no practical gardener has ever 

 been admitted into the Council, no man who could prune the vine or grow 

 a cucumber. Every other society in the world is desirous of embodying 

 knowledge and experience ; but in this club not a half, nor one third, nor 

 indeed any part, of the practical men is admitted. A succession of expen- 

 sive apprentices indeed there has been, and their labours and the result of 

 their experience are before us. The last batch of seedling gardeners are 

 chiefly from Lincoln's Inn * ; and they will no doubt soon teach the world 

 how to cultivate the vine and the fig, which none of their predecessors 

 attempted. — S. Kensington, May 14. 1830. 



We do not very well know whom our correspondent considers fit to prune 

 the vine and grow a cucumber. Messrs. Malcolm, Young, Ronalds, Hender- 

 son, and Loddiges should know something about it ; though perhaps not 

 so much as Mr. Mackintosh, Mr. M' Arthur, Mr. Forrest, and other private 

 gardeners. — Mr. Malcolm is said to have resigned his seat in the Council 

 of the Horticultural Society, because he failed to keep down lavish expen- 

 diture, the creditors in the mean time pressing hard for payment. — Cond. 



* Messrs. Harrison, Briggs, and Bentham are lawyers. 

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