PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
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10. In their arrangements for the present year the Council have been induced 
to try the experiment of extending the duration of the First Great Show to four 
days, and the principal exhibitors hare promised their support in making the 
experiment a success. It is proposed to hold the greater part of the Exhibition 
in the Great Tent and in some additional canvas-covered spaces. The more 
delicate plants will be shown in the Conservatory. 
11. Eolations have been entered into with the Boyal Agricultural Society 
for holding an Autumnal Fruit and Flower Show in the provinces in connec¬ 
tion with their annual Agricultural Show, and arrangements have been made 
with them for a conjoint Exhibition at Bury St. Edmunds in July next. 
The horticulturists of that place and of the adjoining counties have entered 
into the scheme with a degree of spirit which indicates that the guarantee from 
loss stipulated for by the Council as a condition of holding the Show is not 
likely to be called into requisition. In a very few weeks from the announce¬ 
ment of the Council’s intention, the contributions to the guarantee fund 
amounted to double the sum named as necessary; and, in addition to the prizes 
offered by this Society, cups &c. to the value of no less than 226/. have been 
offered by Towns, Counties, Flower Societies, and private gentlemen. The 
Council confidently expect, therefore, that the Show at Bury will not only 
exercise a beneficial influence on Horticulture, but that it will conduce also 
to the reputation of the Boyal Horticultural Society. 
12. It was originally the intention of the Council to publish four numbers of 
the Journal annually, to be paid for by subscriptions from such Fellows as 
might wish to receive a copy of the work. The additional subscription did not, 
however, find sufficient favour with the Fellows to enable the Council to pub¬ 
lish the Journal on this footing; and the Council, unwilling to give up a plan 
which appeared to them to be so important an aid to the objects of the Horti¬ 
cultural Society, have determined to do what is possible towards it by bringing- 
out the numbers of the work at longer intervals, and supplying them at the 
expense of the Society to the whole of its members. 
13. These and other proposed alterations and reductions in the expenses of 
management will, it is hoped, effect all that is necessary in the way of saving 
without trenching on the privileges and the pleasures of the Fellows ; but the 
Council desire to impress upon every subscriber the advantage to the cause of 
Horticulture of inducing his friends to take a warmer interest in the work of 
the Society, and to enrol themselves amongst its Fellows. No better way of 
effecting this offers itself than that of bringing them to visit the Tuesday Fruit 
and Floral Exhibitions of the Society. Under this belief the Council have 
given to the Fellows the fullest privileges for these Shows, and they have also 
raised the payment for admission to the Gardens on these occasions, to 
enhance the advantages which the Fellows’ privilege of admitting friends 
enables them to confer. 
14. The Council are taking steps to get the tax removed from tobacco pur¬ 
chased for horticultural purposes, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer has 
signified to the Council that he is very willing to receive a deputation of the 
Society on this subject. He will fix an early day for the purpose, and the 
deputation will be headed by the President of the Society, His Grace the 
Duke of Buccleuch. It is the intention of the Council to invite the leading 
Horticulturists of the country to join in it. 
Beport of the Chiswick Board to the Council of the Boyal 
Horticultural Society. 
The attention of the Chiswick Board of Directors has, during the past year, 
been more especially directed towards restoring the Gardens to their former 
state of efficiency, so that little, comparatively, has been done of a strictly 
scientific nature. Some successful attempts at Hybridizing however, have been 
