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the purchase of a complete set of that valuable work. 

 Soon after, J. M. Gourgas presented Chaptal's Traite 

 Theorique et Pratique sur la Culture de la Vigne, Mar- 

 shall's Planting and Rural Ornament, and Michaux's 

 Flora Boreali- Americana, each in two volumes. From 

 Samuel Downer came M'Mahon's American Gardener's 

 Calendar, and Deane's New England Farmer or Geor- 

 gical Dictionary ; while the American Orchardist, and a 

 Practical Treatise on the Management of Bees, were 

 presented by the author, Dr. James Thacher. March 

 27, 1830, John Lee presented Sinclair's Systems of 

 Husbandry in Scotland, Young's Farmers' Calendar, 

 and several other agricultural works. May 8, it was 

 announced that a handsomely bound copy of London's 

 Encyclopaedia of Plants was received from Robert 

 Barclay of Bury Hill, Dorking, Eng., an honorary 

 member of the Society; and, on the 12th of June, the 

 thanks of the Society were voted to Mr. Lowell for 

 his donation for the purchase of the seven volumes of 

 the London Horticultural Society's Transactions, and to 

 John C. Gray, for his contribution towards the increase 

 of the library. 



But the Society did not depend on donations alone for 

 gathering a horticultural library. On the 28th of April, 

 1829, it was voted " that the amount to be expended in 

 the purchase of books for the library, as well as the 

 selection of them, be left to the discretion of the Com- 

 mittee on the Library." From a report of the pro- 

 ceedings of the Council on the 6th of March, 1830, it 

 appears that the committee had promptly used the 

 authority so liberally given them, and that there had 

 already been received from Paris several valuable works, 

 including the Nouveau Cours Complet d' Agriculture, 



