on the Formation and Progress of the Garden. 443 



before you wish to receive them. — App. 2. List of Sub- 

 scribers to the formation of the Garden, since April, 1826; 

 the number 40, and amount nearly 500/. — App. 3. Regu- 

 lations as to the privileges acquired by subscriptions to the 

 Garden. These we shall insert, in order to give the garden 

 every chance, notwithstanding our entire opposition to its 

 plan, and determination to use every fair means to expose its 

 defects to the contemporary world, and to posterity. 



" 1. Subscribers of one guinea annually to the maintenance of the 

 Garden (or those who have compounded for the same), are entitled to 

 make application to the Garden Committee for cuttings of fruit-trees, 

 plants of strawberries, seeds of new esculents, and such ornamental plants 

 as can be propagated for general distribution. 



"N.B. The annual subscriptions of all the fellows elected since the 1st 

 of May, 1822, includes the above subscription of one guinea to the Garden. 

 The payment of the subscription is voluntary with the Fellows elected 

 prior to that date. 



" 2. Subscribers of 10/. or upwards to the formation of the Garden, are 

 entitled to the same privileges as the foregoing, with the additional power 

 of issuing tickets for the admission of visitors to the Garden. 



" 5. Subscribers both of 10/. or upwards to the formation of the Garden^ 

 and also of one guinea annually to its maintenance, have all the above privi- 

 leges, with the right, in addition, of making application to the Garden 

 Committee for all such plants as cannot be propagated for general distri^ 

 bution. 



" 4. Members who contribute plants or seeds to the Garden, without, 

 being subscribers, have also a right of making application to the Garden 

 Committee, who, in such cases, judge of their claim by the extent of their 

 contributions. Contributions made by subscribers, increase their claims on 

 the Committee, in proportion to the extent of their donations. 



" (Jj* It is particularly necessary to observe, that no applications can be 

 laid before the Garden Committee, in which the objects desired are not 

 clearly and specifically mentioned. This regulation will hereafter be more 

 positively enforced, in consequence of the publication of the catalogue of 

 fruits in the Garden, and of the various Reports that have from time to 

 time been printed in the Transactions." 



App. 4. Garden Committee : T. A. Knight, Esq., Pres., 

 E. Barnard, Esq., J. Elliot, Esq., R. H. Jenkison, Esq.,, 

 Mr. G. Loddiges, J. Sabine, Esq., Alexander Comte d& 

 Vandes, Mr. H. Ronalds, Mr. S. Brooks. 



The following Reports respecting the Garden have been 

 previously published : for 1823, with a plan, 5s. ; 1824, 2s. 6d.;, 

 1825, 25. 6d. ; 1826, with a plan of the arboretum, 5s. 



On the whole, we are better pleased with this Report than 

 with any of the preceding ones. It is free from the ridiculous 

 lists of rules and regulations which have given so much 

 offence; and though the absurdity is still retained of calling 

 the workmen in the garden, labourers, (as if they did not 

 become entitled to the appellation of gardeners till after being 



