Excerpt from Transactions of the Illinois State Horticultural Society for the Year 1888, Vol. 22: Being the Proceedings of the Thirty-Third Annual Meeting Held at Alton, December 11, 12, 13, Also Proceeding of the Central, Alto-Southern and Northern District Societies, Also Pike County, Kankakee and Warsaw Societies for the Year 1888 III. Its members shall consist of Annual members, paying an annual fee of one dollar; of Life members, paying a fee of twenty dollars at one time; and of Honorary members, who shall only be persons of distinguished merit in Horticulture or kindred sciences, who may, by vote, be invited to participate in the privileges of the Society. The wives of members shall be members without fee. IV. Its officers shall consist of a President, one vice-president, Secre tary, and Treasurer, who shall be elected at the annual meeting, and serve until their successors are chosen; also on Executive Board as hereinafter provided. V. The affairs of the Society shall be managed by an Executive Board to consist of the President and Secretary of the Society, and the President and vice-president from each of the three District Horticultural Societies of the State. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.