THE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF NEW YORK 



NINETEENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 

 BOARD OF DIRECTORS 



Presented May io, 1919 



The Society has completed the seventeenth year of its incor 

 poration and the nineteenth of its existence, with a membership 

 of 760, distributed as follows : patrons, 4; sustaining members ^ • 

 life members, 170; annual members, 571 ; associate members' 8- 

 corresponding members, 2. Of the 43 new members added dur- 

 ing the year, 5 were life, ^,7 annual, and i associate. The losses 

 have been as follows: by death, 23, of which i was a patron 6 

 life members, and 16 annual members; by resignation, 26; 

 dropped on account of non-payment of dues, i ; total 50 



At the meeting of the Board on May 11, 1918, it was announced 

 that a committee of eleven members, to meet a like committee of 

 the New York Florists' Club, had been appointed, carrving out a 

 previous resolution to this effect, to discuss the advisabilitv of 

 holding a spring exhibition in 1919. This joint committee finally 

 decided against the holding of such a show. 



At this same meeting a letter was read from Mrs. Chas. M. 

 Chapin, chairman of the American Fund for French Wounded^ 

 asking for aid in the carrying out of the work of that organiza- 

 tion. The Board passed a resolution authorizing the treasurer to 

 make a special appeal to the members of the society for a fund 

 for the purchase of a motor to be presented by the society to the 

 Fund for French Wounded for use in their work in France. A 

 report on this work b}- the Committee on the French Fruit Tree 

 Fund was printed in the Journal for August, 1918. 



At the meeting of the Board on June 15, 1918, in accordance 

 with the constitution and by-laws, officers of the society for the 

 ensuing year were elected from the membership of the Board. 

 The election resulted as follows : 

 President: T. A. Havemeyer. 



Vice-presidents : N. L. Britton, Jas. W. Cromwell, E. B. South- 

 wick. 



Treasurer : F. R. Newbold. 

 Secretary : George V. Nash. 



307 



