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V. Report upon the New or Rare Plants which have 

 flowered in the Garden of the Horticultural Society at 

 Chiswick, from its first Formation to March 1824. By 

 Mr. John Lindley, F. L. S. $c. $c. Assistant Secretary 

 for the Garden. 



Read July 20, and August 3, 1824. 



Th e following Report upon the New or Rare Plants which 

 flowered in the Garden of the Horticultural Society, from 

 the time of its first formation at Chiswick, up to March 1824, 

 has been prepared for the information of the Members of the 

 Society by desire of the Garden Committee. In selecting sub- 

 jects for remark, I have confined myself to such as have been 

 most particularly deserving notice, either for the beauty of 

 their flowers or foliage, or for circumstances connected with 

 their history ; and I have attempted to avoid as far as pos- 

 sible entering into botanical discussion further than has ap- 

 peared to be necessary in order to make this Report satis- 

 factory. Although it has been the practice of the Society 

 to exclude from its pages Papers in which Botany forms a 

 principal feature, that rule could not have been followed in 

 the present instance, without manifest injustice both to the 

 Society itself, and to the individuals to whose liberality the 

 Garden is indebted for many of the novelties which it pos- 

 sesses, and who have a just right to expect notices of their 

 presents in the Transactions of that Society to which they 

 have been contributed. 



