ANNUAL REPORT. 
= P Centennial Matters. J 
Previous to this meeting your Secretary has little to report. A committee 
from this Society acted in concert with a similar committee from the State 
Agricultural Society on Centennial matters, but its only action was to 
organize, to recommend some memorial to the Legislature, and to await the : 
action of that body. The kind of action committed by that body did not 
furnish apology for further meetings of the committee, and it never met a 
second time. et. 
In view of the action of the Legislature, it was resolved at the summer 
meeting of the Society not to exhibit on the Centennial Grounds, but with 
the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society. You have seen how that resolu- 
tion was disregarded by the Committee on Centennial Exhibition, and I 
think we can none of us be too grateful to the committee for doing just as 
they did. The results certainly justify the course taken. I can say this 
with good grace, for although Chairman of that Committee, I took no part 
in its proceedings. 
Transactions of the Society. 
Within the last year all copies of the Transactions not distributed have 
come into my hands, except a few retained by the Secretary of State to 
distribute when specially applied for. These are now placed subject to the 
order of the Society, and include as follows: 
377 copies No. 1, cloth binding. 
°612°° «¢ ‘2, paper ‘* by J. S. Harris. 
Bayi yee Sark EB we “by L. M. Ford. 
988 *§ oO nd Ke by Chas. Y. Lacy. 
2,198 copies, total. 
What to do with these is 4 question which has occurred to me. It seems 
neither right nor proper to hoard them too closely. Thus far, I have used 
my own judgment in distributing them. I would now recommend that the 
Society authorize their distribution, so that County Horticultural Societies 
now in existence shall not suffer through any failure of the Secretary of State 
to distribute according to law. In other words, so that when any County 
Horticultural Society shall show that none of its Secretaries have received 
the volumes prescribed by law, the Secretary of this Society shall furnish 
the same. I would also recommend that the Society furnish to County 
Horticultural Societies that may hereafter be found with twelve or more 
members, the number of copies stated in the law, of the Transactions from .- 
the beginning of their publication. This may perhaps be an inducement for 
the organization of such societies and for the present at least, this Society 
can afford to do it. 
Library. 
The library of the Society have not received any important additions the 
past year. 
