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suggest such measures for its adoption as may be 

 calculated to promote its welfare, and which may be 

 acted upon at any meeting of the Society legally 

 notified. 



ARTICLE V. 



THE OBJECT AND DISTRIBUTION OF PREMIUMS. 



Premiums or gratuities may be awarded to such 

 persons as shall have essentially advanced the objects 

 of the Society, or for the exhibition to the Society 

 of any fruits, vegetables or plants of their growth or 

 cultivation, and either new in their kind, or of un- 

 common excellence as to quality, or for any new and 

 successful method of cultivating any kind of escu- 

 lent vegetables, fruits, ornamental flowers, shrubs or 

 trees, or any other subjects connected with horticul- 

 ture — Provided, that seeds, cuttings, scions or plants, 

 as the case may be — or the fruits, vegetables or 

 plants shall have been given to the Society for dis- 

 tribution and have been exhibited at some of the 

 meetings of the Society ; and provided also, the Ex- 

 ecutive Committee do report that it is expedient to 

 award such premium or gratuity. 



ARTICLE VL 



EACH MEMBER TO HAVE COPY OF CONSTITUTION, ETC. 



Every member, at the time of his admission, shall 

 be presented by the Recording Secretary with a 

 printed copy of the Charter, Constitution and By- 

 Laws of the Society. 



