THE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF NEW YORK 



To secure the use of the interest from this fund, it is highly 

 desirable to increase it to the required amount of $10,000.00 as 

 rapidly as possible by the addition of new patrons and life 

 members. 



A person becomes a Patron of the society by paying $250.00 or 

 more at any one time, and a IJfc Member by paying $50.00 at 

 any one time. 



A Sustaining" Member pays $25.00 annually, and when ten such 

 payments have been made he becomes a Patron. 



An Annual Member pays $5.00 yearly. 



Under these conditions the society at present is dependent 

 entirely upon the fees from its annual members for funds with 

 which to carry on its operations, including the publication of a 

 Journal and a series of Memoirs, another number of which is 

 now in press. 



The Council feels that one of the most desirable means for 

 increasing the usefulness of the society is the holding of exhibi- 

 tions of plants and flowers. To insure the success of these a 

 large premium list is necessary, and this cannot be met at present 

 from the available income, so that it is necessary to secure a 

 special fund for the purpose. The exhibitions of the society have 

 been of increasing interest, that of last fall attracting nearly 

 31,000 people. It is hoped that the coming exhibition, already 

 referred to, which will be held from November 9th to 13th at 

 the American Museum of Natural History, will be of still greater 

 interest. 



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