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THE Horticultural Society of London was founded in 1804, among the first members being Sir Joseph Banks. Its objects were “to collect every information respecting the culture and treatment of all plants and trees, as well culinary as ornamental,” and “to foster and encourage every branch of horticulture, and all the arts connected with it.” The Earl of Dartmouth was the first President. The Society was incorporated by Royal Charter in 1809. In 1820 the Society purchased 21 Regent Street, which was its London home for forty years. In 1822 it obtained a lease of the present Gardens at Chiswick, which have been cultivated and embellished under the Society's auspices for upwards of sixty-five years.
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The Horticultural Society . Nature 37, 145 (1887). https://doi.org/10.1038/037145a0
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