86 ANNUAL EEPOET 



Our enlarged acreage of vines and other fruits makes it im- 

 perative for us to consider well what preventive measures should 

 be adopted against the many forms of noxious diseases that give 

 warning of the encounter we must sooner or later meet in the 

 protection of all kinds and varieties of fruits from being de- 

 stroyed. Eternal vigilance in guarding against the little foxes 

 that cut the vines, is to be the price by which we are to prosper 

 and save to ourselves a profitable harvest. 



LIBRARY. 



Your attention is called to the pressing needs for a suitable 

 depository for our horticultural library, which is increasing each 

 year by exchanges and new books added. It has been made 

 more apparent at this time by the receipt of the following note 

 from our librarian, of Sept. 30, 1888: 



Dear Sir: The fire at the agricultural building of the state 

 university makes it necessary that our reports be removed at 

 once, as they are now quite wet. 



(Signed) E. A. Cuzner. 



On examination we found that none were destroyed by fire, but 

 many were damaged by water, and will need rebinding before 

 they can be of use; thus it becomes imperative that we should 

 determine on some definite action for procuring a repository 

 that will be ample and secure. Our published reports are 

 numbered by the thousand, and each year new accumulations 

 from our own published reports and accessories by way of 

 exchanges with other societies are received; and this question 

 arises, where can they be placed secure from fire and damp air? 

 These agricultural and horticultural books that we have been 

 collecting for the past twenty years are of value to the members 

 of this Society, and are the silent monuments of our work in 

 horticulture, giving the recorded history of our members and 

 Society. To many of us this history is precious, and must be 

 preserved to tell future generations of our life work when we are 

 laid away to our long rest. 



In furtherance of this object, I would recommend that a com- 

 mittee of three be appointed to select and report at this meeting 

 a permanent library committee, whose duty shall be the procur- 

 ing of a suitable place for a library; to gather and arrange such 

 books, periodicals and other property as may now belong to our 



