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THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN, Mat 10, 1859. 
The estimate of income for the following year is £3,102 ; and 
for expenditure, £1,800, by which the Council expect a surplus 
of £1,362. 
After the reading of the Report, and some observations from 
the Chairman, Mr. Charlwood said, after the hearing the Report 
which had just been read, he was sorry to find that the Society 
was in a position so much worse than last year; that, whereas, 
the balance against the Society last year, was £3,170 12s. OcL ; 
this year it was no less than £4,094 15s. 8d. For the last twenty 
years he had annually urged upon this Meeting the necessity of 
keeping their expenditure within their income, arid warned them 
of the ultimate result of the reckless course they had always 
pursued. All he had said was of no avail, the Council persisted 
in taking their own way, and he was not surprised to-day to find 
the funds of the Society in the state in which they were now 
exhibited to the Meeting. He regretted exceedingly, that, by 
pursuing such a course, they had been driven to sell the library, 
and to contemplate the abolition of the garden. He had been 
informed that the Council had decided on giving up the Arbo¬ 
retum, with all the fine specimens of trees and shrubs of which 
it was formed ; but he trusted that, ere such a step was takeu, 
the Fellows of the Society would have an opportunity of express¬ 
ing their opinion. 
Mr. Wood said he w r as somewhat disappointed with the 
Report, which was too meagre in the information it gave. 
Among other things, he should like to have heard how many 
of the new members elected during the past year were two- 
guinea and how many four-guinea members. He thought, also, 
that there ought to be some medium of intercommunication 
between the Council aud the Fellows. He was resident in the 
country, and knew nothing of what -was going on in London 
ever since the “ Journal” of the Society was discontinued ; and 
he would also like to see the Council and the Fellows brought 
more frequently together than they were at present, so that 
those who took an interest in the welfare of the Society might 
know what the Council was doing; but, according to the pre¬ 
sent arrangements, that could only be arrived at once a-year. 
lie suggested that it would give the Fellows greater interest if 
these meetings were held quarterly. 
Mr. Henderson said, he also lived in the country, and knew 
nothing of what the Society was doing. Many friends of his, 
who knew he belonged to the Society, frequently asked him 
for information upon subjects with which, as a Fellow, he was 
expected to be acquainted, and he felt ashamed to say he could 
afford them no assistance. He understood, since he came into 
that room, that there had been a ballot for plants. Of this he 
had been wholly ignorant, otherwise he would have availed him¬ 
self of the privilege. [It ivas here stated that the ballots had been 
advertised in the Gardener's Chronicle.'] He read Tun Cottage 
Gardener, and had seen no advertisement to that effect appear 
in that Journal; but perhaps the Council did not think that 
an official organ. He hoped that some means would be devised 
by which Fellows resident in the country would be put in pos¬ 
session of what the Society was doing. 
Mr. H. G. Bohn could not allow this opportunity to pass 
without stating that, although a member of Council, he did not 
approve of many of the acts the Council had done. He was 
sorry to say he was too frequently in the minority, and he 
therefore wished it to be understood that many of the steps 
that have been recently taken did not meet with his approval. 
Among these, he said, he was determinedly opposed to the 
abolition of the arboretum. The only pretext there was for 
proposing such a step was the expense of keeping it up. Now, 
he believed that that great ornament to the gardens, where were 
some of the finest specimens of rare trees and shrubs, was of 
too much value and furnished too great an object of attraction 
to the garden to allow the small cost of keeping it up to be a 
consideration. He would himself undertake to keep it in the 
most perfect order for £50 a year. [ Expressions of doubt.] He 
insisted in saying he was prepared to do so. He had much 
experience in gardening, and knew what the expense of such 
establishments was, and he was convinced that the arboretum 
might be kept up for the sum he mentioned. There was 
another subject he desired to bring before the Meeting, and 
that was the sale of the exhibition tents, which the Council had 
determined to dispose of. These tents had cost £1300, and if 
they are parted with it effectually prevented the Society from 
holding another exhibition at Chiswick. It was in fact saying 
that there was no hope of recovering the Society, and therefore 
they must part with everything. If the Society should be 
resuscitated, and these tents were sold, another outlay of £1300 
would have to be incurred before another exhibition could be 
got up. He strongly protested against the abolition of any 
portion of the garden. 
Mr. Rivers said he was sorry to hear it had been proposed to 
do away with the arboretum. He remembered the place from 
his boyhood, and took very particular interest in the specimen 
trees and shrubs that were growing there. There were few 
places where one could go to see the habits of growth, and the 
size to which the recently-introduced ornamental trees attain ; and 
he thought that a collection such as that so near London ought 
not to be broken up, and one of the most attractive features of 
the garden abolished. He hoped there would be some pledge 
from the Council that no step of that kind would be taken without 
first consulting the Fellows of the Society. 
Tjie Chairman stated that overtures had been made to His 
Grace the Duke of Devonshire to take the arboretum off the hands 
of the Society, but nothing further had yet been done in the 
matter; and he assured the meeting that nothing further should 
bo done towards such a result before first obtaining the consent 
of the Fellows. 
After a somewhat lengthened speech from Mr. Godson, who 
surveyed the past and present state of the Society, and who re¬ 
capitulated the opinions expressed by the other members who 
had spoken, the ballot for the new Council was taken, and was as 
follows:—Earl Ducie in place of Sir J. Ramsden, Bart.; Pro¬ 
fessor Henfrey iu place of Mr. Glendinning; and Mr. Charles 
Edmonds in place of Mr. John Spencer. The other officers 
remain as before. 
The large and valuable library of the Horticultural Society was 
sold by auction by Messrs. Leigh, Sotheby & Co. during the past 
week, and realised the sum of £1112 Is. Gd. It contained some 
of the most valuable botanical and gardening books, among which 
were Sibthorp’s Flora Grceca, 10 vols., £60; Gallesio Pomona 
Italiana, 2 vols. £20; Bedoute Liliacees, 8 vols. £20; Wallich. 
Plante Asiatics; Rarioves, £12 17s. Gd. ; Jacquin. leones Plant- 
arum Rariorum, £11; Jacquin. Ecloga; Plantarum, £10 2 s. Gd .; 
Lindley, Sertum Orchidaceum, £11 15s.; Griffith’s Posthumous 
Papers, £11 5s. The beautiful original drawings by Bauer, W. 
Hooker, Barbara Cotton, C. J. Robertson, Mrs. Pope, and Mrs. 
Withers did not realise nearly their gross value. The Chinese 
Drawings of Plants, £70; Fruits by Hooker, Cotton, Robertson, 
Mrs. Withers, &c., £49 10s. Bauer’s Passiflora, £15 15s. The 
total obtained for the drawings was £211 16s. 
We do not know who had the management of this sale; but it 
appears to us to have been most injudicious to have had it during 
the same week, on the same days, and at the same hours as the 
Anniversary Meeting, the Fruit Committee Meeting, and a 
Council Meeting were held. 
BRITISH POJlOLOGTCAL SOCIETY. 
A meeting of the British Pomologieal Society was held on 
Thursday last, at St. James’s Hall, Piccadilly, Robert Hogg, Esq., 
Yice-President, in the chair. 
The object of this Meeting was to award a prize of One Pound, 
offered by Mr. J. Spencer, of Bowood, for the best Seedling 
Kitchen Apple. 
There was a good attendance of members ; and several dishes 
of well-kept Apples were exhibited. 
The seedling, to which the prize was awarded, was raised by 
Mr. Samuel Bradley, gardener to W. F. N. Norton, Esq., Elton 
Manor, near Nottingham, and was raised from seed of Dumelow’s 
Seedling. The variety has been named Baron Ward. It is 
below medium size, and of an ovate shape. The skin is of a fine 
golden yellow colour, quite smooth and shining. Eye slightly 
open, and stalk short. Flesh very tender, crisp, and fine-grained, 
with a nice subdued and very agreeable acid, not unlike, in flavour, 
that of the Gooseberry Apple. It is not so rough and austere as 
the Dumelow’s Seedling, against which it was tested; and was 
considered a very valuable culinary apple for this late season of 
the year. It seems to keep well without shrivelling. 
Rev. J. Bramhall, of St. John’s, near Lynn, sent specimens of 
a seedling which he had previously submitted to flic Society at 
the Meeting of the 6th of May last year. The opinion given last 
year of this admirable dessert Apple, called Clissold’s Seedling, 
or Longmore Nonpareil, was again sustained. It is a most valu¬ 
able Apple at this late season. See report in Cottage Gardener, 
Vol. XX., page 84. 
Mr. Horton, post-office, Toddingfon, Bedfordshire, sent a 
