from May 1, 1830, to April 30, 1840. 



, To Members 6,407 43,403 4,567 



To Foreign Countries, Correspondents, &c. 113 658 139 



To Her Majesty's Colonies ... 32 833 133 



Total 6,552 44,894 4,839 



Making in ten years a Total of 



To Members 90,525 349,903 48,500 



To Foreign Countries, Correspondents, &c. 3,870 9,185 5,925 



To Her Majesty's Colonies .... 930 4,506 146 



Grand Total 95,325 363,594 54,571 



VII — The encouragement of horticulture generally by 



THE AWARD OF MEDALS AND PRIZES FOR ABSOLUTE OR COM- 

 PARATIVE HORTICULTURAL MERIT. 



The Council are fully aware, that horticultural merit is not con- 

 fined to the production of individual specimens of plants of superior 

 value, but that quite as much or even more practical skill may be 

 exemplified in other ways ; as for example, by the regular, steady, 

 economical, and neat cultivation of a garden, so as to produce an 

 abundant and constant supply of fruits, vegetables or flowers, no 

 individual of which may have any extraordinary intrinsic merit; or 

 again, by the careful and persevering prosecution of horticultural ex- 

 periments and observations ; and that in many such cases a gar- 

 dener may have become deserving of the most distinguished reward. 

 But very few cases of this kind could come under the direct 

 cognizance of the officers of the Society, or of any judges whom the 

 Council could appoint, and it would be impossible to arrive at a 



