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



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with a view merely to assist local horticultural Societies in obtain- 

 ing seeds and grafts, as well as medals, without pecuniary gain 

 or loss to the London Society. 



The new regulations as printed in the appendix to the 1st vol. 

 of the 2nd series of the Transactions were circulated in 1S34, and 

 the following Societies have since then more or less availed them- 

 selves of the terms therein proposed. 



The Bath Horticultural Society. 



The Cornwall Horticultural Society. 



The Devon and Exeter Horticultural Society. 



The North Devon Horticultural Society. 



The Newcastle Horticultural Society. 



The Wilts and General Horticultural Society. 



The Winchester Horticultural Society. 

 With regard to the medals awarded for objects exhibited at the 

 ordinary meetings in Regent Street, the practice was originally for 

 the officers of the Society to take notes at the meetings relating to 

 the more important exhibitions, and to report upon them once or 

 twice in the year to the Council, who thereupon selected such 

 cases as they thought deserving of medals. But this practice pro- 

 duced some inconvenience, especially in the long time which 

 elapsed before the exhibitor could be informed that a prize had 

 been awarded to him, and upon the whole it was not found that the 

 expectations originally entertained from the measure were fulfilled. 

 A special committee was therefore appointed in 1836, to consider 

 the means of rendering the meetings in Regent Street more efficient, 

 and a series of regulations for the award of medals on these 

 occasions was proposed and ultimately adopted. Their effect has 

 been to produce at all seasons of the year exhibitions evincing a 

 continual increase of skill on the part of gardeners, and to secure 

 during the spring a numerous attendance of visitors. 

 The regulations now in force are as follows : — 

 At the ordinary meetings of the Society in Regent Street it is 



