By G. Bentham, Esq. Secretary. 539 



admitted into the Garden after half -past nine o'clock in the morning ,• and if the 

 owners of any locked-up boxes, or other cases already received, should not be in the 

 Exhibition Tent at the same hour, such cases or boxes must be excluded from the 

 exhibition. 



All specimens, whether Fruit or Flowers, will remain untouched until after six 

 o'clock, when they will be delivered into the hands of the Exhibitors. 



The price of the tickets was fixed at 3s. 6d. before the first 

 Meeting of the Society in April, and 5s. after that time, and all 

 other regulations remained the same as the previous year. 



The three first Meetings held on the 10th of May, 7th of June, 

 and 5th of July, far exceeded those of the year 1833 in beauty and 

 variety of subjects exhibited, as well as in the numbers of Visitors 

 who attended. The splendour of the Cacti at the May Meeting, 

 and the variety of Green-house and other plants, with a few fine 

 fruits at the two others, excited general admiration; and the 

 Council have now considered the experiment to be fully tried, and 

 have determined on the permanent continuance of similar Ex- 

 hibitions. 



With the merit of the subjects exhibited the number of prizes 

 awarded has necessarily much increased, and various additional ar- 

 rangements have been required, in consequence of the large number 

 of Visitors who have been present. The expence of these Meetings 

 has, therefore, far exceeded the original calculations ; yet there seems 

 every probability of a considerable surplus of receipt over expen- 

 diture, and of this surplus the Council have ordered that, after the 

 present year, one half only be applied to the general purposes 

 of the Society, and the remainder be set apart, and invested as a 

 reserved fund, for the accomplishment of an object of great im- 

 portance to the Society and to the science in general : the con- 

 struction of an extensive range of Hot-houses, which shall enable 

 the Society to prosecute its researches in the Hot-house department 

 on the same scale as it has hitherto done, with regard to hardy 

 plants. 



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