498 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY." 



No special effort has been made this year to increase the contents 

 of the library, but it would seem that some work could be still done 

 in this direction that would yield good results. An effort will be 

 made to secure the bulletins as the^'^are being issued now by a num- 

 ber of the different experiment stations in the country, and to get 

 them in good shape for future use, it might be well to incur the ex- 

 pense of binding. 



There are many files of reports in our library that are still incom- 

 plete. Man}' of these can, probably, be secured, but it will require 

 some time and considerable work in the nature of correspondence. 



Sufficient material has now been gathered to give our librar}'^ the 

 appearance of permanence, and the more hopeful of our number are 

 looking forward to the time when we shall have a permanent loca- 

 tion for this purpose and other uses of the society. 



An ideal library should be central and easily accessible; should 

 have a confortable reading room, where files of all the prominent 

 horticultural periodicals of the country might be kept; and every 

 new publication of importance to our work should earlj' be found 

 on its shelves. Our annual or monthlj'^ report, as the case may be, 

 should send out the cream of all this collection. In short, this 

 library should be the center of collection and distribution of all the 

 live horticultural knowledge of the day. How near can we approxi- 

 mate to this desirable result? 



A suggestion was made last year in regard to providing glass 

 fronts to the bookcases. This has not yet been done, and being a 

 matter of small expense, it should not long be neglected. 



ASSISTANT LIBRARIAN'S REPORT. 



E. A. CUZNER, Asst. Librarian, 



List of Minnesota State Horticultural Societ}' reports stored in 

 the Pillsbury Hall, State University, Minneapolis, Dec. 20, 1893: 



Paper. Cloth. 



For the year 1876 218 



" 1877 10 



" 1887 800 



" 1882 ry2 



" 1882 412 



" 1883 350 



" 1884 22.T 



" 1885 375 



" 1886 145 



1887 15 



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" 1888 69 



" 1889 66 



" 1890 324 



" 1891 115 



" 1891 25 



" 1892 475 



" " 1892 9.50 



" 189.3 475 



" 1893 510 



Taken from the reserve (3) three of '75 and one eacli of the follow- 

 ing : '66, '74, '78, '80. 



There have been sent out during the j^ear up to Dec. 20, 1893, 373 

 copies of the reports to some 83 or 84 different addresses. 



p. S.— There are also 87 copies of 18Q3 wrapped ready for mailing. 



