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MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Balance Sheet, December 31, 1889. 



ASSETS. 



Real Estate — Ledger account value, . $250,000 00 



Furniture and Exhibition ware, . . 3,544 72 



Library, 28,628 72 



Stereotype Plates and Copies of His- 

 tory, 287 50 



Chicago, Burlington and Quincy R. R. 



7 % Bonds, 1,500 00 



Illinois Grand Trunk R. R. 8 % Bonds, 500 00 



Chicago, Burlington and Quincy R. R. 



4 % Bonds, S5, 000— cost, . . 4,925 00 



Kansas City, Clinton and Springfield 



R. R. 5 % Bonds, $1,000— cost, . 980 GO 



Cash on hand December 31, 1889, . 10,620 56 



$300,986 50 



LIABILITIES. 



Mortgage on Building, . . . $25,000 00 

 Josiah Stickney Fund, payable 1899 to 



Harvard College, .... 12,000 00 



Prize Funds invested in Building, viz : 



Samuel Appleton Fund, $1,000 00 



John A. Lowell " 1,000 00 



Theodore Lyman " 11,000 00 



Benjamin V. French " 500 00 



Josiah Bradley " 1,000 00 



William J. Walker " 2,354 43 



Levi Whitcomb " 500 00 



H. H. Hunnewell " 2,500 00 



John Lewis Russell '• 1,000 00 



20,854 43 



Amount carried over, . . . 57,854 43^ 



