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The number of Visitors to the Garden, exclusive of days of 

 Exhibition, has been 8,494. 



The distributions from it have been as follows : — 



1846-47. 



Plants. 



Seeds. 



Cuttings. 





6,958 



49,450 



2,450 



To Foreign Countries, Correspondents, &c. 



406 



319 



132 





6 



59 







7,370 



49,828 



2,582 



Various experimental inquiries have been in progress during 

 the past season, two of which, viz., on Seed steeping, and on the 

 Potato disease, have been already published in the Journal. In 

 the latter experiment, which is the most extensive yet under- 

 taken, involving as it did a comparison between 176 varieties, it 

 was necessary to hire a piece of ground on the farm of Mr. 

 Jessop, of Chiswick. Other experiments on Wheat, and Po- 

 tatoes, and the action of Manures, were under the charge of 

 Professor Solly, whose report has not yet been received. 



The Council believe that they have thus brought successively 

 under the notice of the Society all the occurrences of the past 

 year which are of importance enough to demand special report, 

 and they trust that the statement now laid before the Meeting 

 will be found to contain a satisfactory assurance that their most 

 anxious desire has been to administer its affairs in the manner 

 most conducive to the true interests of Horticulture, as far as the 

 means at their disposal, and the necessity of making economy an 

 element in all their proceedings, have permitted. 



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