By Anthony Carlisle, Esq. v 



chants and colonists, it may even hope to establish a reci- 

 procal Horticultural community between all the civilized 

 people of the globe. 



The Royal Society is principally devoted to abstruse and 

 scientific labours, and which cannot be addressed to the 

 mass of mankind. The profound researches of its Members, 

 descend slowly and silently into the workshop, into the na- 

 vigator's cabin, into the economy of farming and gardening, 

 and into the art of medicine. 



The Linnean Society is the especial conservator of no* 

 menclature and of systematic classification. It is its pro- 

 vince to arrange and catalogue, to ticket and label the 

 different species of natural objects ; to establish, and, if pos- 

 sible, to fix permanently, a system of appellations founded 

 on accurate definitions, and unalterable descriptions, which 

 may secure to posterity the knowledge of passing ages ; and 

 avert in future the clouded uncertainty, or the positive 

 darkness, which unhappily abounds in Greek and Roman 

 literature. 



Whilst the Linnean Society is employed in recording the 

 histories of natural objects, and in defining their alliances, 

 the Horticultural may be occupied in directing the several 

 methods of Science and of Art, to render the Vegetable 

 kingdom more useful, and more pleasurable. The next 

 near allies to the Horticultural Institution, are the Agricul- 

 tural Societies ; but their relationship towards it, as far as 

 respects vegetation, is upon a large and gross scale ; governed 

 by ceconomical views, and adapted wholly to the first neces- 

 sities of mankind. With such obvious lines of demarcation, 



