98 
volumes of the Rose Annual, the organ of the National Rose So- 
ciety, Croydon, England. 
Some of the titles added to the Pre-Linnaean collection, and 
purchased with the Gager Fund, are the Herbarius Latinus, 
printed in Venice, in 1499, and belonging to the incunabula. This 
copy is the second edition of the Herbarius Latinus printed in 
Italy, and reprinted from the 1491 edition of Achates. 
Charles Estienne’s De re Hortensi Libellus . . ..1536; Colu- 
mella’s De re Rustica, Libri xii, 1541; Histoire des Plantes de M. 
Leonhart Fuschsius, avec les noms Grecs, Latins, & Fracoys, 1549, 
the first French edition of this work “Sietihins de Lobel’s Kruydt- 
bosek-...2 TERESI: Ferrante Intpe sat ’s Dell Historia Naturale 
. Libri xxviii, 1599 
Francesco Redi’s LEsperienge Intorno ... 1671; Nicholas 
Culpepper’s English Physician Enlarged, 1676; A. Q. Rivinus’ 
Introductio Generalis in Rem Herbariam, 2 volumes, 1690-91. 
The Compleat Gard’ner ... by the Famous Monsr. de la Quin- 
tinye .. . made English by John Evelyn, Esquire, 1693. Leeu- 
wenhoek’s Opera Ommnia, 4 volumes, 1695-1719. Joseph Pitton 
de Tournefort’s Histoire des Plantes... aux Environs de Paris 
er Of 
Ceti aiins Praeludia Botanica . . . 1703; Anthologia sive de 
Floris Natura ... by Pontedera, 1720; Colonna’s Plantarum 
Aliquot ... Historia... 1744; John Hill’s Eden, or a Com- 
pleat Body of Gardening .. . 1757. 
The Gager Fund also eciitad the Annals of Botany, 42 volumes, 
and the Annali de Botanica, 14 volumes; Willmott’s Genus Rosa, 
2 volumes, 1914; Penzig and Saccardo’s [cones Fungorum Javani- 
corum, 2 volumes, 1904; Gunther’s Herbal of Apuleius Barbarus, 
from the early twelfth-century manuscript ieee in the Abbey 
of Bury St. Edmunds, 1925. 
Forty-one volumes were added to the Boys’ and Girls’ Club 
Room collection, bringing the total to 240 volumes. Eleven vol- 
umes were also donated to the Children’s Garden House collection. 
Periodicals and Serials 
New titles added to the current list of periodicals and serials 
are the Report, and Bulletin, of the Department of Agriculture, 
