Dar J. H. MAIDEN. 
Auditors: Mr. R. Driver; Mr. R. Broad; Mr. John McCarty. 
Committee of Management: Messrs. Sippe, McCulloch, Webb, 
J. Edrop, W. Brown, McLaughlin, T. W. Smart, J. Hip- 
kiss, T.S. Mort, Anderson, Henderson, J. Kay, F. Kenyon, 
Baptist, J. Bellamy and McKnight, etc. 
I have a note, without reference, ‘‘First Show of Floral 
and Horticultural Society, held September 19th, 1838.” 
“The Committee meets on the first Thursday in every 
month, at Mr. Richard Driver’s Tavern, corner of King and 
Castlereagh Streets, for the dispatch of business. 
Members are admitted by ballot, on an annual subscrip- 
tion of £1, which admits a member and his family to every 
show during the year, and to be competitors at the exhi- 
bitions.’’ (New South Wales Pocket Almanac for 1842). 
There is no mention of the Society in the issues for 1843 
and 1844, but the 1843 issue of the New South Wales and 
Sydney Directory gives a note “‘Australian Floral Society, 
corner of Castlereagh and King Streets. Secretary, Mr. R. 
Hipkiss.”’ 
The list of office-bearers re-appears in the “‘Australian 
Almanac”’ for 1848. I may say that I have not been able 
to see Almanacs for 1845-7 and 1849. 
References to this Society are contained in a leading 
article in the ‘‘Sydney Morning Herald” of 27th June, 
1848, worded ina kindly yet disparaging manner. It refers 
to the fact that it had not the patronage of “influential 
individuals’ and that its exhibitions were held in the 
** Market shed.” 
See also the reference to the management (p. 235) 
in Scott’s “‘New South Wales Sporting Magazine” of 
November 1848, where its name is quoted as “The Sydney 
Horticultural Society.” : 
This Society was chiefly supported by professional 
gardeners in contradistinction to amateurs. 
