REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN. 



To TSE Members of the Worcestek County Horticultural 

 Society : 



Your Librarian, in the discharge of the usual custom of report- 

 ing upon the condition and use of the Library, is happy to say 

 that the Books and Pamphlets are in good order, and none have 

 been lost. The number taken out during the year just closed is 

 452, being a small increase over the amount reported last year, 

 while the number consulted at the Library is very much greater. 



Your Librarian in looking through many of the illustrated 

 works on Horticulture in the Library, has been surprised to see 

 the wealth and beauty of the illustrations, and I am sure tliat if 

 the members of the Society would acquaint themselves more 

 generally with these valuable books with which our shelves 

 abound, they would be the gainers thereby. 



The additions to the Library during the past official year, by 

 purchase and donation, are as follows : — 



Hand Book of British Fungi ; 2 vols.; with full description of 

 all the species, and Illustrations of the Genera ; by M. C. Cooke, 

 M. A.; Society. 



The Esculent Funguses of England ; containing an account of 

 their classical history, uses, characters, development, structure, 

 nutritious properties, modes of cooking and preserving ; by Chas. 

 C. Badham ; Society. 



History of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society ; 2 copies ; 

 Society. 



New and Rare Ferns ; by E. J. Lowe ; Society. 



Ferns — British and Exotic ; 8 vols.; by E. J. Lowe ; Society. 



Department of Agriculture ; 1879 ; Report of. 



The Grasses of Great Britain ; Blustrated by John E. Sowerby ; 

 Ed. by Charles Johnson ; Society. 



Elwes' Monograph of Lilies; A Monograph of the Genus 

 Lilium ; by Henry John Elwes; a very valuable work; Society. 



