W MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE LIBRARY 



For the Year 1858. 

 BY CHARLES M. HOVEY, CHAIRMAN. 



The Committee on the Library beg leave to submit their Annual Re- 

 port :— 



Several valuable publications have been added to the Library the past 

 year, the most important of which is Lambert's Pinus, now rare and scarce ; 

 and as it is a work upon a subject now attracting the attention of the 

 public, it is deemed a great acquisition. 



The serial works taken by the Society, together with the cost of bind- 

 ing the same, amount to about fifty dollars. ($50.) 



Quite a number of new and interesting works will be received in the 

 course of a month or so, and will, your Committee believe, be highly use- 

 ful to the members, and add to the interest of this, Avhich should be a most 

 interesting department of the Society. 



These volumes, with the cost of the first work before named, will nearly 

 use up the appropriation made for the Library for 1858 ; and, with a desire 

 to possess everything that is instructive and useful, your Committee would 

 ask for the same appropriation as heretofore, viz., one hundred and fifty dol- 

 lars (#150). 



REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE OF ARRANGEMENTS 



For the 30th Annual Exhibition. 



BY F. LYMAN WINSHIP, CHAIRMAN. 



The Annual Exhibition was held in the Society's Hall, September 21st, 

 22d, 23d, and 24th. For the merits of the Exhibition, reference is made 

 to the Reports of the several Committees on Fruits, Flowers, and Vegetables. 



The account of Receipts and Disbursements is as follows : — 



Total amount of Disbursements, .... $973 97 



Amount received from sale of tickets, . $308 50 



Balance paid by W. R. Austin, Treasurer, 665 47 



$973 97 



