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luck in tliem seemed to have clianged, anxious to find some 

 place ia whicli their meetings miglit be held nearer London. 

 Years, however, passed by without any suitable place being 

 found; and it was not until 1854 that they at last turned 

 their eyes to the estate of Gore House, which belonged to Her 

 Majesty's Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851, who oblig- 

 ingly placed the grounds and house at the disposal of the Society 

 for the meeting in May, 1855. 



All their efforts, however, did not change the course of 

 events. The tide had turned, and contiaued to ebb. The 

 Exhibitions were admirable Horticrdtural displays ; — indeed it 

 is to be noted that they had gone on year after year improving, 

 imtU. now, when no longer profitable, they surpassed anything 

 hitherto seen ; but mstead of yielding their old profit of 2000/., 

 they feU even below the previous years' descent, and left a 

 loss of 276/., which of course only represented a small portion 

 of the iQcrease of debt, most of the old sources of outgoing, 

 although confined, being stUl ia operation. The actual increase 

 of debt on this year was 1250/. 



The Council, finding that matters had apparently taken so 



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their resources, and arrived at so discouraging a conclusion, that 

 a considerable proportion of them, and of a committee of Fellows 

 whom they had appointed to advise with them, expressed their 

 opiuion that the Garden must be rehnquished, the property ia 

 it realised, and the Society pass away into the things that had 

 been. The existence of this noble Society, which had done so 

 much good, and which it is to be hoped wlU long live to do 

 more, hung ujoon a thread. Fortunately, the less desponding 



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