Excerpt from Transactions of the Illinois State Horticultural Society for 1868, Vol. 2: Being the Proceedings of the Thirteenth Annual Meeting at Bunker Hill, December 15th, 16th, 17th and 18th; With Proceedings of Local Societies, Correspondence, Etc III. Its members shall consist of Annual members, paying an annual fee of two dollars 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. 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.