ADVERTISEMENT. 



Xhe Committee appointed by the Horticultural Society to 

 direct the publication of the Papers read before them, take this 

 opportunity to inform the Public, that the grounds of the choice 

 are, and will continue to be, the importance and singularity 

 of the subjects, or the advantageous manner of treating them, 

 without pretending to answer for the certainty of the facts, or 

 the propriety of the reasonings contained in the several Papers 

 so published, which must still rest on the credit or judgment of 

 their respective Authors. 



It is likewise necessary, on this occasion, to remark, that it is 

 an established rule of this Society, to which they will always ad- 

 here, never to give their opinion, as a body, upon any subject 

 either of Nature or Art, that comes before them. And therefore 

 the thanks which are proposed from the Chair, to be given to the 

 Authors of such Papers as are read at the General Meetings, 

 or to the Persons who send fruits, or other vegetable produc- 

 tions, or exhibit Inventions of various kinds to the Society, are 

 to be considered in no other light than as a matter of civility, 

 in return for the respect shewn to the Society by these com- 

 munications. 



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