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5jr. to i is. 1500 members. Annual receipts, i 500, including 

 900 gate money from the shows. Payments, i 534, including 

 623 in prizes. Funds, November, 1908, over 750, and the Neill 

 Prize Fund of 450. The main features of the Society are the 

 flower shows, which are held in Edinburgh in April and September, 

 and are open to the United Kingdom and Ireland. 



President: Lord Balfour of Burleigh. Secretary: Donald Mac- 

 kenzie, 23, Rutland Square, Edinburgh. 



Royal Horticultural Society (England]. Founded 1804. Sub- 

 scription, from i is. to 44^. Nearly 10500 Fellows. Income, 

 18000 (francs 456500). Assets, 70000 (francs i 767500), ex- 

 clusive of gardens at Wisley. 



The objects of the Society are to encourage and promote the 

 cultivation of plants and flowers, fruit and vegetables, and fortnightly 

 exhibitions are held throughout the year at the Society's Hall. The 

 members and fellows are entitled to purchase, at reduced rates, such, 

 fruit, etc., as are not required for experimental purposes; to obtain 

 analyses of manures, soils, etc.; to have their gardens inspected at 

 stated fees ; to have a share of surplus plants ; and to have a copy of 

 the Society's Journal. Members may use the libraries, including the 

 " Lindley Library," containing an incomparable collection of horti- 

 cultural works. Examinations in horticulture are conducted under 

 the Society's auspices. Nearly 200 Societies are affiliated. 



The year 1904 was the centenary year, and to mark the event a 

 new Hall, costing 42 ooo, was opened by H. M. the King at Vincent 

 Square, Westminster, on July 22. A new garden of sixty acres at 

 Wisley, near Ripley, has also been recently purchased (by the late 

 Sir Thomas Hanbury), and placed on trust for the use of the 

 Society. Courses of instruction for young gardeners are provided at 

 the gardens an elementary or first year course and an advanced or 

 second year course. A laboratory, opened in 1907, forms part of the 

 equipment of the gardens, and affords facilities for advanced research. 



The following are among the principal exhibitions held each 

 year (with some provisional dates for. 1909): Show of Colonial 

 grown Fruit and Vegetables, to be held on December 1-4; National 

 Auricula and Primula Society's Show, April ; National Tulip Society's 

 Show, May; Flower Show, Inner Temple Gardens, May 25, 27; 

 National Sweet-Pea Society's Show, July; Great Summer Show at 

 Holland Park, July 6, 7 ; National Carnation and Picotee Society's 

 Show, July; National Rose Society's Autumn Show, September; 



