Volume 1

A discourse read at the annual election meeting of the Caledonian Horticultural Society, December 5, 1822 : upon delivering the prize medal ... to Mr. Walter Henderson ... for his memoir on the culture of orange-trees in Scotland / [Andrew Duncan].

  • Duncan, Andrew, 1744-1828
Date:
1823
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A discourse read at the annual election meeting of the Caledonian Horticultural Society, December 5, 1822 : upon delivering the prize medal ... to Mr. Walter Henderson ... for his memoir on the culture of orange-trees in Scotland / [Andrew Duncan]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    a quarter of an acre, is an object of admiration to every intelligent visitor. By this situation we may with ease derive ad¬ vice from some of our most intelligent members, not only with perfect ease, but with much pleasure and satisfaction to themselves. And of that ad¬ vice the advantages cannot I think be estimated too highly. I have now the satisfaction of laying upon your table a lithographic Plan of the ground al¬ luded to, executed at the expence of Mr Bocheid, in which our intended Experimental Garden, the new Boyal Botanical Garden, and extensive Nursery Gardens possessed by our worthy mem¬ bers Messrs Dicksons Brothers, together with the intended adjacent buildings, are delineated. Of this ground, in a situation on many ac¬ counts so desirable, Mr Bocheid offers to give us immediate possession, as soon as we are able to pay him the stipulated price. And till we are able to pay the purchase money, your Council think it would be very inexpedient to begin their operations But although our efforts at home for obtaining the necessary funds have been aided by a subscription of more than L. TOO, remitted to us from Bengal, and chiefly obtained by the exer¬ tions of that excellent botanist Dr Wallich, Superintendant of the Botanic Garden at Cal¬ cutta, yet a very considerable sum is still want¬ ing.