CCXvi PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
off or ringed of their bark, which must kill them, and all the vines, 
apricots, and plums on the walls have been torn down and destroyed." 
Such recent evidence of the need of our Fund for helping to recon- 
struct these destroyed gardens is surely a sufficient appeal for universal 
support of our Concert and of our Fund also. 
A most generous friend of our Fund, writing under date October ax, 
1916, says : — 
" I am willing to give £1,000 if you can get a further £9,000 sub- 
scribed after October 1, 1916." 
Will you not help us to obtain this £1,000 by sending a donation ? 
