XX PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



34. PICTURE POST-CARDS. 



The Council have caused picture post-cards of the Society's Hall to 

 be prepared, and very good they are. They are printed in various colours, 

 and show the front elevation of the buildings, the interior of the Great 

 Hall looking east as let for a show or a bazaar, and the interior looking 

 west, with platform and chairs as arranged for a concert or public 

 meeting. These cards may be purchased by Fellows at the Society's 

 Offices, Vincent Square, Westminster, S.W., at cost price, viz. 6d. a 

 dozen (unstamped), cr a couple of dozen will be sent post free on receipt 

 of Is. postal order. The Secretary will consider it a great kindness if 

 Fellows would purchase and use some of these cards so as to make more 

 generally and widely known the possibilities of our new buildings for 

 letting for various purposes. • 



35. PORTRAIT OF THE PRESIDENT AND 

 THE LAWRENCE MEDAL. 



The following circular letter is being sent to all the Fellows, and will, 

 we hope, be universally responded to, as 2,000 subscriptions of 5s. and 

 500 of a guinea would be far more gratifying than a lesser number of 

 larger amount. 



Deae Sie oe Madam, 



At the last Annual Meeting of our Society, held on February 13, the 

 President, Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., K.C.V.O., V.M.H., completed the 

 twenty- first year of his Presidency. 



When he first took up the office the Society was at a very low ebb 

 indeed, having barely 1.000 Fellows, no buildings of its own, and an 

 annually increasing deficit. Owing in no small measure to Sir Trevor's 

 wise guidance, it now has almost 10,000 Fellows, a magnificent Hall and 

 offices in Vincent Square, Westminster, and at each year's end a sufficient 

 balance to make one feel confident for the immediate future. 



To celebrate Sir Trevor's twenty-one years of office the Council have 

 resolved to invite all the Fellows to subscribe towards having his portrait 

 painted by Professor Herkomer to place in the Society's new buildings, 

 and also to establish in perpetuity a large gold medal, to be called " The 

 Lawrence Medal," to be awarded to exhibits of a specially meritorious 

 character at the Society's meetings, the want of such a medal having 

 been felt for a very long time. 



