Medals presented to Local Horticultural Societies 

 within the United Kingdom. 



The Council of the Horticultural Society of London have resolved 

 to give in each year, commencing with 1826, one of the Large Silver 

 Medals of the Society, to such of the Horticultural Societies es- 

 tablished within the United Kingdom, as they are in communication 

 with ; to be awarded by the Council or Committee of each Society 

 respectively, to any one person within their district, who, by his 

 Exhibitions, Cultivation, or Communications on Horticultural sub- 

 jects within the year, shall appear to the said Council or Committee 

 to be most deserving of such testimony of merit, provided there 

 shall be considered one sufficiently deserving. 



The award of the Medals is to be made as soon as possible after 

 the termination of the year, and a Report is to be transmitted from 

 the Secretary of each Society, to the Secretary of the Horticultural 

 Society of London, for the information of the Council, as to the 

 Person and Subject to whom and for which the Medal may have 

 been awarded. 



The donation of these Medals will be announced at a General 

 Meeting of the Horticultural Society of London, previous to its 

 Anniversary in each year ; after which the Medals will be trans- 

 mitted, and a List of the Medals so given, will be Annually printed 

 to accompany the published Transactions of the Horticultural 

 Society of London. 



The object of the Council, in making this regulation, is twofold. 

 Firstly, to distinguish and bring into notice Horticultural merit 

 and talent, which may be so situated as not to come within their 

 knowledge by any other means. Secondly, to shew that their 



