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upon the amount of subscriptions. The approximate cost of the work, with three 
coloured plates representing the size of the apples, would be £35 or £40 a year. 
He believed a small subscription would produce that sum annually ; but if they 
could get £60 ayear subscribed the publication might then be illustrated with six 
coloured plates. He thought it better to adopt this plan, and let the work stand 
on its own merits, than to depend upon patronage and a comparatively few large 
subscriptions. They only meant to spend each year the money subscribed, and it 
would all be spent in the publication alone, so that the more subscriptions they got 
the more the subscribers individually would get for their money (hear, hear). 
Rev. Jones Thomas said that Dr. Bull had said nothing with reference to 
giving his own assistance in conjunction with Dr. Hogg and Mr. Bulmer, in the 
proposed undertaking. 
Dr. Bull said that he would render all the assistance he could (hear, hear). 
Rey. Jones Thomas asked whether the publication would, if issued, be 
limited to Herefordshire only? In the little county of Breconshire there was red 
sand, and he did not want to praise what could be grown there. 
Dr. Bull said that as soon as they had exhausted the subject in Hereford- 
shire they might perhaps go into Breconshire (hear, hear). 
Rev. Jones Thomas remarked that a more popular subject than ‘‘ Pomona” 
could not possibly be suggested for the benefit of Herefordshire (hear, hear). Sub- 
scriptions, he believed, would readily be obtained from all parts of the county. 
Of that he was not in the least afraid. He only hoped that the publication, as 
suggested by Dr. Bull, would be started, and that it would be a very great 
success (hear, hear). 
Rey. C. J. Robinson asked whether it was intended to reproduce all that 
had appeared in ‘* Knight’s Pomona ?” 
Dr. Bull replied that at present they had better confine the publication to 
apples that were growing in the county and to the new kinds. They had better at 
first keep to the special Herefordshire kinds. 
Rev. C. J. Roprnson said that if the new publication should be considered 
complete without the contents of “‘ Knight’s Pomona” it would not be quite so 
acceptable to those who, like himself, did not possess a copy of Knight’s work. 
Mr, Fowler apprehended that the new work would be entirely distinct, and 
reminded the club that the copyright of Knight’s work belonged to the Agricul- 
tural Society of the county, and, therefore, they could not use any of the contents 
of that work in the new publication without the consent of that society. 
Dr. Bull said that there was so much new work in the county to be done 
that they had better leave the reproduction of Mr. Knight’s work till a future 
time. It had been proposed that a separate guarantee fuud should be raised to 
the amount of £50 in case the subscriptious should fall short. He did not believe 
that the subscriptions would be less than the sum required ; but it would be safer 
to have a separate guarantee fund for each year. The Club had guaranteed £20; 
