scarcely any one knows its (the Society’s) worth, and those that do 
fail to promulgate the good. The English by sheer intelligence have 
considerably improved nearly every production for the sustenance 
and happiness of the public. These good kinds have gone forth to 
every part of the world ; and if it were possible to sum up the 
good, it would be found that Horticulture has done more to benefit 
the human race and make England eminent than any other 
profession, and, although much has been done to comfort and 
strengthen the body and cheer the heart of man, there is an 
endless amount still to do. 
His late Royal Highness Prince Albert certainly made sure 
that he had secured a noble home for the Society, but it is at 
this moment, from no fault of theirs, without a floor or roof to call 
its own, yet now even, in lodgings as it were, the Society is 
leading oa Horticulture and doing enormous good — Agriculture 
owes them a heavy debt of gratitude. 
When we read of a patriotic lady in Philadelphia, evidently an 
admirer, and anxious to forward Horticulture in America, bequeathing 
j^4o,ooo wherewith to build and maintain a Hall of Horticulture 
in that city, we feel it is retrogression on the part of the British 
in not possessing one long since to cany on one of the greatest 
sciences of the nation. There are many amongst our wealthy who 
