146 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY, 



Name. Year. Name. Year. 



Michigan Board of Agri 1877 Indiana Agri. Report 1875 



TJ. S. Department Agri. Report 1876 Indiana Agri. Report 1877 



U. S. Department Agri. Report 1878 Indiana Agri. Report 1884 



U. S, Department Agri. Report 1879 Indiana Agri. Report 1885 



U. S. Department Agri. Report 1884 Indiana Geological Survey ..1875 



TJ. S. Department Agri. Report 1885 Pennsylvania Agri. and Hort. Soc. Vol 1 



U. S. Department Agri. Report 1886 Pennsylvania Agri. and Hort. Soc. Vol 2 



U. S. Department Agri. Report 1887 Pennsylvania Agri. and Hort. Soc. Vol 3 



U. S. Department Agri. Report 1888 Pennsylvania Agri. and Hort. Soc. Vol 4 



TJ. S. Department Agri. Report 1889 Pennsylvania Agri. and Hort. Soc. Vol 5 



TJ. S. Department Agri. Report 1890 Pennsylvania Agri. and Hort. Soc. Vol 6 



TJ. S. Dept. Bureau of .\nimals, etc. .1889-90 Pennsylvania Agri. and Hort. Soo. Vol 7 



TJ. S. Congress, Reports to 187.5 Pennsylvania Agri. and Hort. Soc. Vol 8 



TJ. S. Smithsonian Report 1884 Pennsylvania Agri. and Hort. Soc. Vol 9 



Iowa State Hort. Society 1871 Pennsylvania Agri. and Hort. Soc. Vol 11 



Iowa State Hort. Society 1872 Pennsylvania Agri. and Hoi-t. Soc. Vol 12 



Iowa State Hort. Society 1873 Pennsylvania Agri. and Hort. Soc 1878 



Iowa State Hort. Society 1874 Pennsylvania Agri. and Hort. Soc 1879 



Iowa State Hort, Society 1875 Pennsylvanfa Agri. and Hort. Soc 1880 



Iowa State Hort. Society ..1876 Pennsylvania Agri. and Hort. Soc 1881 



Iowa State Hort. Society 1883 Pennsylvania Agri. and Hort. Soc 1882 



Iowa State Hort. Society 1890 Pennlylvania Agri. and Hort. Soc 1883 



Iowa State Hort. Society 1891 Pennsylvania Agri. and Hort. Soc 1888 



Iowa Agri. Report 1876 Pennsylvania Agri. and Hort. Soc 1889 



Iowa Agri. Report 1877 Pennsylvania Agri. and Hort. Soc. ..1890 



Iowa Agri. Report 1878 Pennsylvania Agri. and Hort, Soc 1891 



Iowa Agri. Report 1879 Conn., Hartford Co., Hort. Frem. List. 1891 



Iowa Agri. Report 1884 Conn.. Hartford Co.. Hort. Prem. List. 1892 



Iowa Agri. Report 1885 Minnesota Historical Society 1891 



Iowa Agri. Report 1886 Minnesota, Its Resources 



Indiana State Hort. Society 1887 Ontario Fruit Growers' Ass'n 1888 



Indiana State Hort. Society 1883 Ohio State Forestry Bureau 1888 



Indiana State Hort. Society 1890 Montreal Hort. Society 1889 



Indiana State Hort. Society 1891 



Total number of separate hooks, not including duplicates, 177. 



The present arrangement in regard to the location of a library for the 

 society, while looked upon as only temporary, is perhaps as convenient as 

 can he made at the present time. Our library should be made ultimately 

 the repository of all the horticultural literature extant, and its current 

 accessions should fully keep pace with the increase of such literature. 



An effort is being made with some success to secure the numbers miss- 

 ing from the flies of reports of the various horticultural and agricultural 

 societies of the country, and, also, to get the bulletins of the various ex- 

 periment stations as fast as published. Many of these reports and bulle- 

 tins are in paper covers, and should as fast as possible, together with the 

 various horticultural periodicals coming to the library, be bound substan- 

 tially in cloth. 



There are many works on the various branches of horticulture that can 

 be obtained only by purchase or by gift from the friends of the society. A 

 small amount appropriated annually to this work, combined with a little 

 industry on the part of the librarian and the library committee (which 

 ought to consist of our whole membership), would result in time in get- 

 ting together a large and valuable horticultural library. A blank book 

 has been prepared in which the volumes of the library will be catalogued 

 alphabetically as they come in and credit be given to the donor. An 

 improvement imperatively needed in the library is some glazed doors to 

 protect the books from dust, which is rapidly discoloring them. 



The past year systematic work has been done for the library, and it has 

 not been practicable to do this to advantage before, being without a home 

 for our books, such as is now provided. I trust the result will be found 

 reasonably satisfactory. Respectfully submitted, 



A. W. LATHAM, Librarian. 



