Report of the Garden Committee of the Hort. Soc. 441 



plan could not have been produced without extraordinary pains 

 and trouble; and no man, or class of men, likes to work hard 

 without being paid in some way or other. We have paid our 

 share in kind, and should not mind a second subscription, if 

 we thought it would bring forward some one of them to de- 

 fend the plan, and point out its superiority to what we have 

 suggested (p. 359.); but however anxious some nurserymen 

 may be to get seeds or plants from the garden, we have never 

 heard of one of them who would acknowledge having had any 

 thing to do with its plan. All we wish is, to pull it to pieces, 

 and lay out the ground anew ; but, if we cannot attain this, 

 we shall at least prevent it from being in any part of the world 

 considered as approved of by British gardeners, and save other 

 societies from the misfortune of adopting it as a model. 



Art. II. Report of the Garden Committee of the Horticultural 

 Society of London on the Formation and Progress of the Garden. 

 March 31. 1827. 4to. pp. 16. 



Progress has been made in procuring fruit-bearing plants, 

 in ascertaining the correctness of their nomenclature, consoli- 

 dating their synonyms, and describing their varieties. The 

 same as to culinary vegetables. " Additions, wherever 

 possible, have been made to the hardy trees and shrubs, 

 not only by the acquisition of species and varieties not before 

 in the garden, but by the acclimatising of plants hitherto con- 

 sidered too tender or valuable to be risked to exposure." 

 (p. 381.) 



A catalogue of the fruit-trees in the garden has been pub- 

 lished (see p. 208.). " It is now proposed to commence the 

 preparation for the press, of a similar catalogue of the hardy 

 trees and shrubs in the arboretum, which will probably be 

 completed after the close of the ensuing summer. The 

 catalogue of esculent vegetables is also in a state of forward- 

 ness, and will be published as soon as shall be found practicable." 

 We trust these catalogues will prove something better than 

 the one on fruit-trees (p. 208.), which is really unworthy of the 

 Society. Nothing can be easier or more useful than an 

 arrangement founded on affinity, adopting, as a principle of 

 affinity, either the uses to which the culinary vegetables are 

 applicable, their affinities in regard to culture, or their natural 

 affinities. As to the trees, the natural system is alone appli- 

 cable to them ; it is applicable also to the fruits, and possibly, 

 for we have not considered the thing in detail, it may be 



