Medals presented to Local Horticultural Societies 

 within the United Kingdom, 



For the Year 1827. 



The Regulations* under which these Medals are distributed having 

 been already printed, and annexed to the present Volume of the 

 Transactions, a repetition of them here is unnecessary. 



The Council have much gratification in observing, that the plan 

 acted upon for the first time in 1826, of placing one of their Large 

 Silver Medals annually at the disposal of each of the Provincial 

 Horticultural Societies within the United Kingdom with which 

 they are in communication, has been attended with very beneficial 

 effects. In this their chief object was to encourage merit and talent, 

 which from circumstances was not likely to come within their 

 knowledge by other means; and it cannot be doubted, that if the 

 principle of conferring these Medals in all cases upon Practical 

 Men within the district of each Local Society, and not upon 

 Amateurs, or Persons of Fortune, who have ready access to the 

 Horticultural Society of London, is as steadily pursued as it has 

 hitherto been, the most beneficial results to Horticulture will arise. 



The following is a list of the Medals which have been awarded 

 by the Provincial Horticultural Societies for the year 1827. 



By the CALEDONIAN HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY to 

 Mr. Archibald Reid, Gardener to the Hon. Robert Lindsay, of 

 Balcarres, in Fifeshire, for his Paper printed in their Transactions, 

 entitled, " Account of a new mode of Planting and Cultivating 

 Fruit Trees, with a view to prevent Canker, and to procure well 

 ripened Fruit." 



