NOTH'KN TO KKLLOWH. 



odxi 



proposal, perforated for tearing out, will he found between pages eclviii 

 and OOliZi 



The (Council recognise that it in very largely due to the individual 

 efforts of the Fellows that they have been able to elect 2, .000 new sub- 

 leribers during tin; past two years, hut they think that every use should 

 be made of the present unique occasion of the Society's Centenary for 

 still further increasing the Koll of the Fellows. 



Of the now nearly 8,000 members about 1 ,200 have contributed to the 

 building fund according to their means, but as all the Fellows will enjoy 

 the more convenient and more spacious Fxhibition Hall, Lecture Kooni, 

 and Library, the Council trust that all who have not yet sent a contribu- 

 tion will now do so, in order that it may indeed be the I fall of the whole 

 Society and not of a certain number of the Follows only. Lei, there not 

 be one single Fellow when the Hall is opened who cannot say he has 

 done his share (no matter how small) towards the cost of its erection, 

 even though he may have paid for but a few bricks in the foundation. 



Y. iir 



Expend!- 



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A ii ii mil 



KneraMi «r 



DccrciiMo of 

 !•; x i >• - » j < 1 it Ufl 



Income 



Annual 

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I nv .1 iih iiI . 

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 1 BOfM 14 01 

 1 n vi' itOMXltl 



Your 





£ 



£ 



£ 



£ 



- £ 



£ 





1887 



3,877 





2,804 





g -1,182 





1887 



]888 



8,412 



108 



3,017 



+ 723 







1888 



1 889 



8,960 



+ 848 



8,520 



-97 





5 3 



1 88! | 



1 890 



8,866 



04 



4,102 



4 882 





h 



1 890 



1891 



4,182 



1 3 Hi 



4,489 



1 337 







1 89 1 



L692 



4,872 



i 690 



4,873 



4 434 



479 



i 479 



1 892 



1 998 



6,198 



1 82] 



8,891 



t 718 



479 





1 803 



1 89 1 



5,076 



117 



8,880 



-41 



978 



t 190 



L894 



L895 



6,078 



-8 



8,038 



l 88 



1,708 



i 798 



1 695 



1896 



8,788 



+ 716 



5,944 



i 806 



2,328 



i 887 



1 800 



1897 



6,481 



••507 



6,808 



i 389 



2,328 





1 897 



1808 



•-,,810 



4 329 



7,104 



1 801 



.'{,001 



I 1,300 



1 808 



1 899 



0,000 



4 289 



7,820 



• 710 



6,154 



+ 2,408 



1 899 



1000 



0,883 



, 484 



8,103 



I 373 



8, 1 56 



I 2,002 



1000 



L901 



7,001 



1 808 



0,312 



i 1,119 



1 1 ,237 



+ 8,081 



1901 



L902 



6,286 



1,178 



10,724 



•l 1,412 



13,737 



+ 2,800 



1 002 



1903 



8,770 



f 840 



12,418 



: 1,094 



1 0,830 



! 2,799 



1 908 



* The Oavi ; and Parry Im^tuut-.n, amounting to £'2,022, arc not ineluderl in the 

 in ve ;tment ; in this table, a:; they have no bearin<; on the II uef.iiation;s of lie; Society's 

 financial po ition. 



FUTURE PliOSPKCT8. — When we look back over the past century and 

 see the wonderful changes it has introduced in every branch of horti- 

 culture, as in everything else, we hesitate to forecast what improvement 

 may not be made in even a few years to come,, both in plants themselves 

 and in gardening appliances and operations. Hybridisation will no doubt 

 play the foremost part in the immediate future, but to make full gain of 

 all ii wondrous possibilities, its laws rem lire to be more fully studied and 

 made known. Kloctricity, also, will possibly bo gradually applied in many 

 wa) ; and almost all the natural laws and phenomena of plant-life have 

 to be still further investigated, and other such useful work to be done. 

 None of these questions can be adequately dealt with without the 

 establishment of a really scientific lie iearch Station in connection with the 

 gardens at Wisloy, where experiments can be marie and carried on side 



