NOTICES TO FELLOWS. 



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Exhibitor, and every visitor benefits by the improved accommodation 

 for the shows and lectures, and we therefore appeal to all who read this 

 statement to help to wipe out the remaining sum of £10,000, so that 

 before the end of the year the Hall may really belong altogether to the 

 Society, which it cannot be said to do until it is entirely paid for. 

 Small sums from those who can only afford small sums will be grate- 

 fully acknowledged by the Treasurer, E.H.S. Offices, Vincent Square, 

 Westminster. Cheques should be made payable to The Treasurer, R.H.S., 

 and be crossed " London & County Bank." 



Until this amount is paid, the Council will be trammelled in their 

 work, and unable to extend it in any direction. The expenses of the 

 rent, rates and taxes, upkeep and general expenditure on the new build- 

 ing, including interest on the loan, will be at least £2,000 more than the 

 similar expenses at the old Hall and Offices. And this heavy extra charge 

 on our income shows the impossibility of reducing our little invested 

 capital, as our income would at once shrink in proportion ; and the 

 amount to be derived from letting the New Hall will not be large until 

 the building becomes better known, and its great and manifold advantages 

 are fully realised, but in years to come we trust that the cost to the 

 Society will be materially lessened by the rents receivable from letting. 



14. THE SOCIETY'S NEW HOME. 



The Royal Horticultural Hall is now occupied by the Society for 

 its Shows, Meetings, Library, and Offices. Vincent Square lies straight 

 through Ashley Gardens from Victoria Street, Westminster, and is about 



Fig. 140. — Position of the Society's Hall. 



five minutes walk from the Victoria and St. James's Park Stations. The 

 accommodation for the Shows is double what it was in the old Drill Hall. 

 The Lectures are delivered in a room specially equipped and devoted to 

 that purpose, and the Library is now housed in a manner worthy of the 

 unique and valuable collection of books which it contains, and as the shelf 



