14 THE CONNECTICUT POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



The President: If Mr. Moore is not here, I will ask 

 Mr. Orrin Gilbert, the chairman of the membership com- 

 mittee, to come forward and give his report. 



Report of the Membership Committee. 



Mr. Gilbert: Mr. President, and ladies and gentlemen 

 of the Pomological Society : 



I would say that, after the very full report of the secre- 

 tary, it would not seem to be necessary to call upon me at all. 



Now, we have had but a small opportunity this past year 

 to meet the members, or to meet those whom we wanted to 

 get into the Society, because we have had only two field 

 meetings. The result has been that we have not obtained 

 as many new members as we hoped to do this year. I have 

 been thinking about the matter and wondering hoAV we might 

 best meet this emergency in regard to the membership busi- 

 ness, and I have thought of a plan which is this : For each 

 one, when he pays his membership fee to-day, to hand in two 

 dollars, instead of one, and we will give him a receipt for one 

 dollar, and he may pledge himself to look for one new mem- 

 ber, and, when he gets that new member, just simply send 

 the name and the address in to Secretary Allies, and he can 

 keep the other dollar that he receives. I do not know of any 

 better suggestion to make than that. I think it would work 

 well. I think if the members took hold of a scheme like 

 that, the thousand new members that the Society wants 

 this next year would be obtained in less than a year. 



I do not know what more I can say, Mr. President. That 

 is about all I have to suggest. 



The President : You hear the report of the membership 

 committee. Any remarks upon it? 



Mr. Hale: I think if anybody can do that job, and do it 

 well, it is the chairman of the membership committee, and I 

 move, Mr. President, that he be authorized to get two dollars 

 out of every member, if he can. (Laughter.) 



The President: Last week I attended the meeting of the 

 Western New York Horticultural Societv, where thev were 



