HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



and tlie rapidity with wliicli it gained public favour must 

 certainly be ascribed in a great degree to the proofs which 

 the Garden furnished of its perfect suitability to cultivation. 

 The importance of regulating the moisture of the atmosphere 

 of glass-houses, never attended to systematically by the older 

 gardeners, but which has become one of the corner-stones of 

 successful Horticulture, was first demonstrated in the Garden, 

 after having been pointed out by Daniell in the Society's 

 Transactions. Nor covdd the Committee have failed to recog- 

 nise the solid though less manifest advantage to the country 

 which had begun to arise from the careful registration of 

 meteorological facts in the Garden. With instruments of the 

 best construction, procured and placed under the advice of 

 the late Professor Daniell and the present Major-General Sabine, 

 a series of daUy observations of the barometer, thermometer, 

 hygrometer, rain-gauge, &c., was commenced on the 1st of 

 May, 1825, and has been continued to the present time; and 

 there does not exist in this country so long, exact, unbroken, 

 and trustworthy a record of the climate of London as the 

 Meteorological Journal of the Society. 



Simultaneously with obtaining the ground at Cliiswick, the 

 admission fee had been again raised from 51. 5s. to Gl. 6s., and 

 the annual subscription from 3^. 3s. to 4/. As., and at the same 

 time, with a view to defray the cost of the new Garden, a 

 voluntary subscription was opened, which ultimately reached 

 the sum of 7275/. 2s., an amount which, surprising as it seems, 

 was yet by no means equal to what the more sanguine members 

 of the Society anticipated, and still less equal to what the 

 veritable expenses of the new Garden demanded. 



