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' XXXV. First Report on the Experiments carried on in the 

 Garden of the Horticultural Society of London, made 

 up to the end of March, 1825. 



Read, February 7, 1826. 



Th e following Report is that to which reference is made 

 in the last Report of the Garden Committee, as comprehend- 

 ing an account of experiments conducted in the Garden 

 of the Society to the end of March, 1825. It has been 

 considered advisable not to extend this beyond notices con- 

 nected with the Hot-houses and similar buildings constructed 

 in the Garden : and to defer to future opportunities, a state- 

 ment of the results of other experiments which have been 

 instituted. The recent formation of the Garden, and the 

 necessarily imperfect state, in so new an establishment, of 

 most of the materials which are requisite for purposes of 

 experimental investigation, have hitherto presented obstacles 

 which each succeeding year may now be expected to remove ; 

 and as Reports are to be annually made on such experiments 

 as shall be brought to a satisfactory termination, these will, 

 in due time, be successively submitted to the notice of the 

 Society. 



Hot-houses. Of the houses in the Ornamental Garden 

 department, two are constructed with wood ; and one, which 

 is double, that is, with a north and south aspect, is framed 

 with iron. Those constructed with wood had been erected at 



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