PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
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Kaye, Lady Lister, 17 Cronrwell Load, South Kensington, W. 
King, William, 41 Bedford Gardens, Kensington, W. 
Lumsden, Henry, 20 Onslow Square, S.W., and Pitcaple Castle, Aber¬ 
deen, N.B. 
Lydiard, Peter, Batheaston, Bath. 
Mortimore, Mrs., 2 Gloucester Gardens, Hyde Park, W. 
Murdoch, James Gordon, 11 Elvaston Place, South Kensington, W. 
Pearse, Mrs. Henry, 32 Queen’s Gate Terrace, W. 
Plomer, Miss, Eden Lodge, Holland Villas Eoad, Kensington, W. 
Salt, Edward, Ferniehurst, Shipley, Leeds. 
Slett, Mrs., 32 Elvaston Place, South Kensington, W. 
Watts, Henry, 353 Old Kent Eoad, S.E. 
Williams, Lady, Bodelwyddau, Ehyl, St. Asaph. 
Horticultural Societies. 
The following provincial Floral and Horticultural Societies were admitted 
into union with the Eoyal Horticultural Society:— 
Chertsey and District Floral and Horticultural Society. 
East Neuk of Fife Horticultural Society. 
Elvetham, Eversley, Bramshill, Yately, and Minley Horticultural Society. 
Largo Field Naturalists’ Society. 
Neston, Burton, and Heswall Floral and Horticultural Society. 
Eoyal Jersey Agricultural and Horticultural Society. 
ANNUAL GENEEAL MEETING. 
Tuesday, Feb. 12, 1867. 
His Grace the Duke of Buccleuch in the Chair. 
The minutes of the last meeting having been read and signed, Messrs. 
Fortune and Booth were appointed scrutineers. 
The Assistant-Secretary (Captain Cockerell) then read the following 
Eeport:— 
Eeport of the Council to the General Meeting, 
February 12, 1867. 
1. Notwithstanding the monetary distress of the past year, the Council are 
able to report to the Fellows an increase in the amount of annual subscriptions. 
The sums paid by Fellows as subscriptions in 1865 amounted to 7975/. Is. 1 d., 
and, as will be seen by the annexed statement of receipt and expenditure, their 
annual subscriptions rose to 8176/. 9s. 6d. in 1866. 
2. The rents for the Arcade lettings to Horticultural implement-makers have 
also increased more than 80 per cent, since the year 1865, and during the last 
12 months 320/. have been paid to the Society under this head, in addition to 
the sum of 149/. 17s. received for Her Majesty’s Commissioners of 1851 for 
the stalls in the South-Eastern Arcade. 
3. The sales of Garden produce from Chiswick for 1866 have likewise ex¬ 
ceeded those of the previous year. In 1865 these sales brought in 650/. 3s. 8<rZ.; 
in 1866 they amounted to 717/. 15s. ocl. But for the failure of a considerable 
portion of the Fruit crops—a failure under which all gardens in and about 
London suffered—the receipts from this source would have been considerably 
greater. 
4. It will be seen, therefore, that in the sources of income least liable to 
fluctuation, the Society has made decided progress, and although the receipts 
from exhibitions and for daily admissions have fallen considerably below the 
average, the Council are of opinion that the affairs of the Society, though 
requiring strict economy, are in an encoimaging position, for these deficiencies 
are traceable to causes which have affected every undertaking, whilst the pro¬ 
gress made can only be attributable to the increasing popularity of the Society, 
and to the daily increasing number of wealthy residents in the neighbourhood 
of the Gardens. 
