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No  112S.— VoL.  XLVI.,  Third  Series. 
J(rtti[nal  4  garlii[ulti«[A 
THURSDAY,  JUNE  11.  1903. 
Royal  Botanic  Society. 
was  not  the  proud  pos¬ 
sessor  of  the  first  botanical  gar¬ 
den  in  these  islands,  altbongh 
the  Chelsea  Physic  Garden  and 
the  experimental  grounds  of 
the  Royal  Horticultural  Society  at 
Chiswick  take  us  far  back,  and  the 
Royal- Gardens  at  Kew  were  not  acces¬ 
sible  enough  to  be  very  generally  visited 
in  bygone  days  by  Londoners.  It  was  the 
recognition  of  the  fact  that  London  was 
wanting  in  this  direction  that  led  a  number  of 
metropolitan  residential  botanists  to  found  the 
Royal  Botanic  Society  in  the  year  18£i9. 
A  plot  of  ground  in  the  Regent’s  Park  was 
occupied  up  to  the  year  1838  by  Jenkins,  a 
nurseryman.  “  Rumour  was,”  says  Mr.  W. 
Sowerby  in  his  short  history  of  the  Society, 
“  that  this  inner  circle  of  the  Park,  being 
originally  intended  as  the  locality  for  a  Royal 
Palace,  was  not  included  in  the  general  plan  of 
laying-out  and  planting  the  Park.  However, 
Her  Majesty’s  Commissioners  at  the  time, 
feeling  that  a  botanic  garden  would  not  only 
be  of  use  to  London,  but  to  the  country 
generally,  listened  to  t’ue  suggestions  of  the 
Society.”  The  Duke  of  Richmond  of  that 
time  was  the  first  president,  w’ho  was  actively 
supported  by  the  Duke  of  Norfolk,  the  Earl  of 
Aberdeen,  Lieut. -Col.  Rushbrooke,  Philip 
Barnes  (the  promoter),  and  James  De  Carle 
Sowerby,  who  was  the  earliest  secretary,  and 
whose  son  and  grandson  have  succeeded  him  at 
the  post.  The  Priuce  Consort  graciously 
accepted  the  office  of  president  in  18.56,  and 
during  the  first  fifty  years,  to  1889,  only  four 
changes  had  beeu  made  iu  the  office  of 
president,  and  these  changes  only  iu  answer  to 
the  one  law  which  governs  and  limits  all  life. 
The  area  of  the  Royal  Botanic  Garden  is  a 
little  over  18  acres,  the  highest  point  being 
129ft  above  sea  level.  The  state  of  the 
KEADERS  are  requested  to  send  notices  of  Gardening 
Appointments  or  Notes  of  Horticultural  Interest, 
intimations  of  Meetings,  Queries,  and  all  Articles  for 
Publication,  officially  to  “  THE  EDITOR,”  at 
12,  Mitre  Court  Chambers,  Fleet  Street, 
London,  E.C.,  and  to  no  other  person  and  to  no  other 
address. 
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