Editing Royal Horticultural Society (section)

==Membership==
[[File:RoyalHortSocMitglieder.png|thumb|Members of the RHS from its founding until 2002]]
In 2009 more than 363,000 people were members of the society, and the number increased to more than 414,000 in 2013<ref name=rev1314/> and to 525,105 by 2019.<ref name=":0">{{cite web |title=Annual Report and Consolidated Financial Statements for the year ended 31 January 2020 |url=https://www.rhs.org.uk/about-the-rhs/pdfs/about-the-rhs/mission-and-strategy/past-annual-reports/rhs-annual-report-2019-20.pdf |publisher=Royal Horticultural Society |access-date=13 August 2020 |archive-date=1 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210401001028/https://www.rhs.org.uk/about-the-rhs/pdfs/about-the-rhs/mission-and-strategy/past-annual-reports/rhs-annual-report-2019-20.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> Membership and fellowship of the society were previously decided by election, but are now by financial contribution. Fellows are supporters "contributing a suggested £5,000 per annum" (as of 2022).<ref>{{cite news|last1=Gerard|first1=Jasper|title=Crisis at the Royal Horticultural Society|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/6175529/Crisis-at-the-Royal-Horticultural-Society.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/6175529/Crisis-at-the-Royal-Horticultural-Society.html |archive-date=2022-01-12 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|access-date=25 March 2016|work=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|date=11 September 2009}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=RHS Fellows|url=https://www.rhs.org.uk/about-the-rhs/support-us/rhs-fellowship|publisher=Royal Horticultural Society|access-date=4 March 2022|archive-date=11 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210411150805/https://www.rhs.org.uk/about-the-rhs/support-us/rhs-fellowship|url-status=live}}</ref>

Members and Fellows of the Royal Horticultural Society are entitled to use the [[post-nominal letters]] '''MRHS'''<ref>{{cite book|title=The Oxford Dictionary of Abbreviations|date=1998|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|page=258|isbn=9780192800732|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bWwKWnp9vaoC&pg=PA258|access-date=25 March 2016}}</ref> and '''FRHS''', respectively.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Oxford Dictionary of Abbreviations|date=1998|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|page=176|isbn=9780192800732|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bWwKWnp9vaoC&pg=PA176|access-date=25 March 2016}}</ref>
{| class="wikitable mw-collapsible"
|+
Membership by financial year
!Financial year
!Number of members
|-
|2013/14<ref name="rev1314" />
|414,699
|-
|2014/15<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=13 May 2015|title=Annual Report and Consolidated Financial Statements 2014/2015|url=https://www.rhs.org.uk/about-the-rhs/pdfs/about-the-rhs/mission-and-strategy/past-annual-reports/accounts-for-website.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200920151010/https://www.rhs.org.uk/about-the-rhs/pdfs/about-the-rhs/mission-and-strategy/past-annual-reports/Accounts-for-website.pdf|archive-date=2020-09-20|access-date=2021-01-15|website=Royal Horticultural Society|page=5|url-status=dead}}</ref>
|428,472
|-
|2015/16<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=23 May 2016|title=Annual Report and Consolidated Financial Statements 2015/2016|url=https://www.rhs.org.uk/about-the-rhs/pdfs/about-the-rhs/mission-and-strategy/past-annual-reports/Annual-Report-2016.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200920140007/https://www.rhs.org.uk/about-the-rhs/pdfs/about-the-rhs/mission-and-strategy/past-annual-reports/Annual-Report-2016.pdf|archive-date=2020-09-20|access-date=2021-01-15|website=Royal Horticultural Society|page=5|url-status=dead}}</ref>
|448,977
|-
|2016/17<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=9 May 2017|title=Annual Report and Consolidated Financial Statements 2016/2017|url=https://www.rhs.org.uk/about-the-rhs/pdfs/about-the-rhs/mission-and-strategy/past-annual-reports/RHS-Annual-Report-2016-17.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200920135301/https://www.rhs.org.uk/about-the-rhs/pdfs/about-the-rhs/mission-and-strategy/past-annual-reports/RHS-Annual-Report-2016-17.pdf|archive-date=2020-09-20|access-date=2021-01-15|website=Royal Horticultural Society|page=15|url-status=dead}}</ref>
|472,157
|-
|2017/18<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=8 May 2018|title=Annual Report and Consolidated Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 January 2018|url=https://www.rhs.org.uk/about-the-rhs/pdfs/about-the-rhs/mission-and-strategy/past-annual-reports/rhs-annual-report-2017-18.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200920141459/https://www.rhs.org.uk/about-the-rhs/pdfs/about-the-rhs/mission-and-strategy/past-annual-reports/rhs-annual-report-2017-18.pdf|archive-date=20 September 2020|access-date=2021-01-15|website=Royal Horticultural Society|page=17|url-status=dead}}</ref>
|490,205
|-
|2018/19<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=30 April 2019|title=Annual Report and Consolidated Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 January 2019|url=https://www.rhs.org.uk/about-the-rhs/pdfs/about-the-rhs/mission-and-strategy/past-annual-reports/rhs-annual-report-2018-19.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200921192321/https://www.rhs.org.uk/about-the-rhs/pdfs/about-the-rhs/mission-and-strategy/past-annual-reports/rhs-annual-report-2018-19.pdf|archive-date=21 September 2020|access-date=2021-01-15|website=Royal Horticultural Society|page=19|url-status=dead}}</ref>
|502,666
|-
|2019/20<ref name=":0" />
|525,105
|}