532 Report on the Exhibitions of the Horticultural Society, 



following plan was drawn up and submitted to the Council at their 

 Meeting of the 23rd February, 1833. 



" Three Special Exhibitions to take place at the Garden of the Society on three dif- 

 ferent Saturdays, one in May, one in June, and one in July. 



" One or more large Silver Medals, and four or more Banksian Medals, to be awarded 

 to the best exhibitions on each occasion. 



" The subjects for exhibition to be arranged under a tent to be erected for the pur- 

 pose. The Judges to make their award previous to the admission of the Visitors, to 

 whom the gates of the Garden would, on those days, be open from One o'clock till 



"All Fellows of the Society to be admitted on signing their names, without paying. 



" In order to defray the expences of the tent, &c. tickets to be issued for the admis- 

 sion of Visitors ; each ticket to be good for either of the three days, at the option of the 

 Visitor, and to be distributed to Fellows only for the use of their friends. 



" All Fellows who should, on or before Tuesday, the 2nd of April, subscribe half a 

 guinea, to receive three tickets ; if they should subscribe one guinea, seven tickets ; and 

 if two guineas, fifteen tickets. The produce of these subscriptions alone to be relied on 

 to defray the expences. 



" If that produce should be more than sufficient for the payment of the tent, seats, 

 and other necessary expences, the surplus to be applied to the hire of bands of music. 



" After the 2nd of April, tickets to be sold to Fellows at 5*. each. The produce of 

 these tickets to be reserved for extraordinary contingencies, and the surplus, if any, to go 

 to the general funds of the Society." 



The above proposal was adopted, and immediate steps were 

 taken to carry it into effect. Circulars were sent round to the 

 Fellows of the Society, from whom it met with general approbation 

 and support, and before the 2nd of April a sufficient sum of 

 money was received to justify the purchase of a handsome tent 

 consisting of an iron frame work, supported on cast-iron pillars, 

 and measuring 100 feet in length, and 50 feet in its greatest 

 breadth. Under this tent a central circular table and lateral ones 

 under each wing afterwards connected with the central one, were 

 erected for the purpose of arranging the subjects of exhibition, and 

 the sale of tickets increasing rapidly, bands of military music, seats, 



