EXTRACTS OF PROCEEDINGS. 



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The invaluable work of 37G pages, on "British Apples," 

 which Mr. Barron was able to produce as the outcome of the 

 " Apple Conference, 1888," is now being re-issued by the Society 

 in a cheap and popular edition, at the price of eighteenpence 

 only. It may be as well to point out that, unless this issue should 

 command a very large circulation, it will entail a gross loss to 

 the Society ; but the Council have felt, in face of the wide- 

 spreading interest taken in British fruit-culture, and of the fact 

 that this book is a standard work upon Apples, that it was their 

 duty to encounter this risk, hoping that individual Fellows 

 would endeavour to promote its sale amongst their neighbours 

 and friends. 



All these Conferences and Meetings, and especially the work 

 and maintenance of the Chiswick Gardens and the publication 

 of the Journal , have involved the Society in a very large outlay, 

 and the Council take this opportunity of endeavouring to impress 

 upon Fellows the absolute necessity there is for them all indi- 

 vidually (as many as have the Society's welfare at heart) to 

 endeavour to secure new Fellows to the Society if its work is 

 not only to be continued at its present standard, but still more 

 so if the ever-opening and extending opportunities of usefulness 

 are to be embraced and accepted. The adoption of £1. Is. as 

 one rate of subscription was, no doubt, a popular movement, 

 but the Council desire to remind the Fellows that such a low 

 rate of Fellowship can only be self-supporting if it draws into 

 the Society a very large number (far larger than at present 

 exists) as additional Fellows. The Council therefore venture 

 to express the hope that every Fellow of the Society will make 

 an endeavour to obtain at least one new Fellow during this 

 present year. A statement of the privileges of Fellows and of 

 the aims and objects of the Society, together with a form of 

 nomination to Fellowship, is for this purpose enclosed with this 

 Eeport. 



The revival of Lectures at the Afternoon Meetings has 

 been another good feature in the year's work, and the Council 

 hope that as the fact of these lectures and their value become 

 more generally known, through their publication in the Journal, 

 that the attendance of Fellows to hear them, and to take part in 

 the discussions, will gradually increase. The Council cannot 

 but think that many of the Fellows are unaware of the immense 



