420 Report on the progress of the Horticultural Society, 



From the Hon. Frederick Thellusson, I Dendrobium macrostachyum 



Florence. Geodorum fucatum. 



From Thomas Whitfield, Esq., Sierra 

 From Mr. Watson, Ceylon. Leone. 

 1833. Acanthophippium bicolor ' 1832. Liparis guineensis. 



II. — The Establishment and maintenance of a complete 



COLLECTION OF AUTHENTIC SPECIMENS OF USEFUL OR ORNA- 

 MENTAL Trees, Shrubs and Plants. 



This, one of the most important objects for which the Society's 

 Garden was originally taken, had already been fulfilled to a very 

 considerable degree prior to the year 1830, and the great ex- 

 tent to which the collection was likely to attain was the principal 

 reason for renting so large a piece of ground. The collection 

 in 1830 was still young, and far from being as complete as it 

 evidently might become in the course of a few years. To provide 

 against the expected increase, much of the ground was at that 

 period unoccupied, and it was strongly recommended by the Com- 

 mittee of Enquiry in 1830, that such part as might not be imme- 

 diately wanted, should in some way be disposed of, or let off, so 

 as to diminish the annual expenditure. This however, the Council, 

 after various attempts, found to be as impracticable as it always 

 is to secure pecuniary returns of any consequence from the produce 

 of an experimental garden; and, as the only alternative, they 

 during the first years, cut off every source of expense which 

 might be considered applicable to mere embellishment, or as not 

 strictly necessary for the main objects of the Society. But as the 

 Society's position became less embarrassed, and as the growth as 



