HORTICULTURAL feOCIETY OF LONDON. 



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audit had, therefore, been to this extent decreased beyond what 

 the Council had considered it really necessary to effect. Conse- 

 quently in incurring new debt to the extent of £1500, the Coun- 

 cil have, in reality, avoided using the reserved fund at their dis- 

 posal to the amount of more than £2000.* Or if the profits of 

 the Garden Exhibitions for the years 1839 and 1840 are divided 

 by two, then the sum at the disposal of the Council has been 

 unappropriated to the extent of more than £1300. 



Since the year 1838, independently of minor sums of a consi- 

 derable aggregate amount, for additions to the Library, and 

 substantial repairs at the Garden, the following expenses have 

 been incurred in permanently increasing the efficiency of the 

 Society, or in augmenting its wealth, viz. 



£ s. d. 



For the new Conservatory . - - 4556 13 7 



For alterations and improvements in the roof of 



the Meeting-room in Regent-street - - 28* 



For Sheds and other Buildings erected in the Oar- 

 den, apd for New Hot Water Apparatus - 410 12 11 



^5254 6 6 



It was Resolved that thanks be returned to the Council for 

 their Report and for the attention and skill with which they had 

 conducted the affiiirs of the Society during the past year. 



May 3, 1842. 



GARDEN COMMITTEE. 



Mr. Thompson reported from the Orchard and Kitchen Garden 

 Department, that Nitrate of Soda, in a strong solution, had been 

 applied to various plants with a view to ascertain its effects 

 upon them and to what extent it might be safely applied. Four 



* It will also be found in the Report from the Auditors, that the Society 

 is this year charged with the sum of £150, in satisfaction of a claim of £300, 

 for alleged old arrears of rent due to H. M. Commissioners of Woods 

 Forests, etc. This claim was first made in the year 1831, and was then resisted 

 by the Council, who were of opinion that it could not be maintained ; and 

 it has been at length settled by the Commissioners of Woods, etc. abandoning • 

 the claim, upon the payment by the Society of the £J50 charged in the 

 accounts of the present year. 



