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should be made. A copy of tlie deed of agreement will be fomid 

 in tbe Appendix. 



The fmids required were raised with the greatest ease ; the 

 donations amounted to 18C7/. 12s. Six hundred new Fellows 

 immediately joined, and, altogether, within twelve months, 

 13,000/. was obtained from Life Memberships. The Council 

 had merely to intimate their desire to borrow 40,000/. on 

 100/. debentures, bearing 5 per cent, interest, and conferring 

 the privilege of one admission to the Gardens, when the whole 

 of the debentures were immediately taken iip. 



So soon as it had been ascertamed that the requisite funds 

 could be provided, the assistance of Capt. Francis Fowke, E.E., 

 Mr. W. A. Nesfield, and Mr. Sydney Smirke, R.A., three gentle- 

 men, each of the highest talent in his own department (engi- 

 neering, landscape gardening, and architecture), was secured 

 to assist in designing and constructing the garden. Many 

 meetings of the Council and of the Commission, at which 

 His Royal Highness presided, were held with these gentlemen, 

 and the plans which have been since carried out were gradually 

 arrived at ; not, however, without many trials, many variations, 

 and many alterations ; for it is one of the pecuharities of all 

 the works of embellishment in the Garden, that nothing has 

 been finally executed until, by previous modelling (often of the 

 size of nature) and altering and amendmg, a satisfactory result 

 was arrived at. Were such precautions more generally adopted, 

 many an expensive blot, which now disfigures our public build- 

 ings, would have been saved by the timely expenditure of a few- 

 pounds. 



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