72 STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



in the interest of my immediate peace and personal safety, to explain that 

 there is in it no willful intimation that the papers the Report contains, and 

 the debates it chronicles, are mere pectoral wind. The demand for the 

 Report is pleasingly active and our receipts from it are already nearly as 

 great as in other years, with good prospects of further increase. 



THE FINANCIAL EXHIBIT. 



The amounts and sources of receipts appear Ijy the treasurer's report 

 and make a quite acceptable showing, both as to their amount and the bal- 

 ance on hand. During the year two life members were added, and I feel 

 confident that a little effort will result in a considerable increase. 



An analysis of the expenditures shows a division of the total according 

 to the following classifications: 



Expenses of the President's office S66 55 



Secretary's salary 200 00 



Expenses of Treasurer's office 3 37 



Expenses of Library including librarian's salary 73 67 



Expenses of Executive Board , 112 08 



Annual fair 33 05 



Printing and stationery 35 85 



Volumeof 1887 1 50 



Volume of 1888 15 00 



Exchanges 7 90 



Incidentals and quarterly meetings 11 55 



Secretary's postage 43 21 



S672 93 



The receipts having been $715.89, there remain in the treasury $42.96, 

 with no demands against it for any expenses up to date. 



ANNUAL REPORT OF TREASURER. 



To the Officers and Members of the State Horticultural Society: 



With pleasure I present my annual report. 



In the Treasury Dec. 4, 1888 S342 03 



Received from branch societies 112 20 



Annual memberships , 44 00 



Interest on bonds and mortgages 128 00 



Donations 100 



Volumes of 1888 and sale of fruit 24 66 



Sold one fifty-dollar bond ." 64 00 



Total $715 89 



Paid 27 checks, amounting to 672 93 



Balance on hand $42 96 



There are 205 life members, the fund therefrom amounting to $2,050 00 



Invested as follows: 



Seymour mortgage $1,000 00 



Lytell mortgage .• 300 00 



Jacob Swell mortgage 300 00 



W.A.Cook mortgage 350 00 



U. S. Bonds 100 00 



Total . $2,050 00 



