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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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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    norant, that, even in the Scottish Universities, there are individuals so much wedded to what they think is for their own pecuniary interests, as to op¬ pose introduction of every new branch of education. They seem to imagine that every class-fee which goes into the pocket of another, would have come to them or to some other Professor alreadv es- j tablished, if it had not been intercepted. Than this there cannot be a more egregious mistake. On the contrary, the more scientific knowledge that is carried from Edinburgh, whether from private or public tuition, whether derived from teachers in the College or out of it, the higher will he the emoluments of everv industrious and able teacher, in consequence of a greater influx of future students. I therefore confidently trust, that any narrow-minded opposition to the esta¬ blishment of a Professorship of Horticulture in the University of Edinburgh, will be totally dis¬ regarded ; and I would fain hope, that the period is now arrived, when it will no longer be thought unadvisable for the Council of this Society, to take some active steps with the view of obtaining such an establishment. Thus far, Gentlemen, I have spoken of the two great objects which we have long had in view, an Experimental Garden and a Professorship of Horticulture. Of the third topic which I men¬ tioned, the progress of our Society since our last Annual Election Meeting, I shall say very little.