HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



was looked on by the general public, it may be mentioned that 

 sixteen of these subscribers were not Fellows, and one of them, 

 Heineich Beheens (let his name be honoured), a German 

 gentleman, subscribed no less a sum than 100/. The subscrip- 

 tion was considered so far satisfactory that the relinquishment of 

 the Garden at Chiswick was at least postponed for another 

 year. Meantime the establishment was still further reduced ; 

 the collector in Mexico was recalled ; the culture of stove plants 

 was abandoned, and the plants themselves were sold, bringing 

 about 569/. The Herbaria of the Society, consisting of the 

 original species sent home by the Society's collectors, and which 

 formed the types of many of the plants newly introduced by 

 them, and described by Dr. Lindley and others, were sold for 

 253/. This was a sacrifice greater in appearance than reaUty ; 

 the Society not being a Botanical Society, they were seldom 

 consulted, and it was perhaps better that they should be, as 

 they were, secured to Science in the great national collections 

 of the kingdom. 



Fortified by the amount of the subscriptions, and the encou- 

 ragement received from various quarters, the Council received 

 power from a General Meeting " to take such measures for the 

 reorganisation of the Society as they might consider ad\'isable, 

 even though those measures should involve the relinquishment 

 of the Garden at Chiswick, and the realisation of the property 

 or any part of the property therein." 



Under this authority the Council made various alterations in 

 the rates of subsciiption and privileges of the Fellows, reducing 

 the former and increasing the latter. They made an apphcation, 

 which turned out unsuccessful, to Government for apartments 



