NOTICES TO FELLOWS. 



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HISTORY OF THE SOCIETY. 



The Council have decided to publish a short Centennial History of the 

 Society, giving an account of its many and varied efforts for the general 

 encouragement of horticulture, both useful and ornamental, during the 

 past one hundred years, and including descriptions of its gardens, and 

 other homes, its shows, publications, &c, and of the variety of work which 

 it has performed during that period. Anyone who has not studied the 

 subject can have no conception of the vast and rapid changes which 

 have taken place in every branch of horticulture since the Society was 

 founded in 1804, nor of how largely these are due to the efforts of the 

 Society, now celebrating its centennial year. Not only have gardens 

 become more general, and better cared for, but every class of garden 

 produce has been enormously improved and vast numbers of new 

 flowers, plants, trees, fruits and vegetables have been added to our 

 possession. The Society has all along been the pioneer institution of 

 its kind in the whole world, and the Council feel that it is only due to 

 the memory of those now gone from us, whose labours have resulted in 

 the practical success and pre-eminence of our Society, that some record 

 should appear at the present auspicious time. 



The history will consist of about 150 pages, including the appendices, 

 and will be illustrated by a series of full-page illustrations, specially 

 prepared for the purpose. It will probably be sold at about 35. 6d. a 

 copy, bound in cloth, with coloured edges, or in paper covers Is. 6d. 



Any Fellow having copies of old programmes, notices, almanacs, 

 plans, or other matter relating to the subject, whether published by the 

 Society or otherwise, will greatly assist in the compilation if he will lend 

 them to the Society for a few weeks. The greatest possible care will 

 be taken of such documents, and they will be returned as soon as possible. 



ADVERTISEMENTS. 



Fellows are reminded that the more they can place their orders with 

 those who advertise in the Society's publications the more likely others 

 are to advertise also, and in this way the Society may be indirectly bene- 

 fited. An Index to the Advertisements will be found on pages 34 and 35. 



