ADVERTISEMENT. 



The Committee appointed by the Horticultural Society to direct 

 the publication of the Papers read before them, take this opportu- 

 nity to inform the Public, that the grounds of their choice are, and 

 will continue to be, the importance and singularity 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 rea- 

 sonings, contained in the several 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 subject, 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 Inven- 

 tions 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. 



