PRE FA C E. 



Jln completing the seventh volume of the Transactions of 

 the Horticultural Society, the Council have to congratulate 

 the Fellows on the great advantages already derived from the 

 establishment of the Society, and on the very flattering 

 prospect open to it for the future. It may be said to have 

 given an impulse to the study of Horticulture, not only in 

 this country, but in all quarters of the globe, as is proved 

 by the establishment of numerous Provincial Societies on 

 the same model, and by the formation of similar Institutions 

 in Germany and France, in the West Indies, and other 

 countries. 



Of the Provincial Societies, five only were in direct cor- 

 respondence with the London Society, at the time of the 

 publication of the sixth volume of these Transactions, and 

 as such, received the large silver Medal placed at their dis- 

 posal. It will be seen by the lists placed at the end of this 

 volume, that this number was increased to nine in the year 

 1827, and in the year 1828, to thirteen. The number now 

 in correspondence amounts to sixteen, fourteen of whom have 

 awarded the large silver Medal for 1829. 



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