HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



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tliat season tickets, admitting both to the Exhibition and the 

 Garden during the continuance of the Exliibition, sliould be 

 issued. The price of the Exhibition season ticket was three 

 guineas, and it was resolved to make the price of that admitting 

 both to tire Exhibition and the Garden five guineas, being 

 an additional charge of two guineas for the Garden, of which 

 sum the Horticultural Society was to receive 30*., the Com- 

 missioners retaining 12s. in consideration of other facihties 

 given, and of taking the whole cost and trouble of issuing the 

 tickets, as well as that of the entrances between the Garden 

 and the Exhibition. The price of the single ticket after the 

 month of May (during which they were higher) was fixed at 

 5s. on Saturdays, 2.?. 6c?. on Fridays, and Is. on Mondays, 

 Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, or Gd. if the visitor 

 entered from the Exhibition. The practical efl'ect of these 

 charges for admission was that on the first four days of the 

 week the visitors to the Exliibition could obtain admission to 

 the Garden for sixpence ; and the statistics of the year showed 

 that, keeping the season tickets out of view, the average 

 amount drawn from the sixpenny days was four times that 

 drawn from the 2s. 6d., and five times that drawn from the 

 5s. days. 



For this year also an additional access was obtained to the 

 Garden. The access hitherto had been only by the entrance in 

 Exhibition Eoad at the Council Eoom and Offices. The Society 

 now obtained from the Commissioners of 1851 an access for the 

 season from Kensington Gore through the vacant space behind 

 the Conservatory ; a curved carriage-way was accordingly 

 there formed, with a covered footway and entrance leading by 



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