ADVERTISEMENT. 



Th e 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 singu- 

 larity 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 seve- 

 ral 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 

 adhere, never to give their opinion as a body, upon any sub- 

 ject 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 productions, 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 communications. 



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