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to this department at that early day. It is true, that on 

 the 25th of September, 1829, it was voted, " that a sub- 

 scription paper be placed on the table, for such gentle- 

 men as may see fit to subscribe to raise a fund for the 

 purchase of books for the library of the Society ; " but 

 we have no record of its success. 



On the 13th of March, 1830, a carefully drawn code 

 of regulations for the library and cabinet, consisting of 

 twelve articles, was adopted, which continued in force, 

 without material alteration, until April 6, 1861, when a 

 revised code of regulations was adopted. June 18, 1830, 

 the library, etc., were insured for $1,000. 



The first Catalogue of the library was printed in the 

 New England Farmer of August 10, 1831. At that 

 time there were in the library 190 volumes, three- 

 fourths of which were English and French publications. 

 Among the more important works may be named 

 (besides those already mentioned) Coxe's View of the 

 Cultivation of Fruit Trees, Adlum's Memoir on the Cul- 

 tivation of the Vine in America (presented by the author), 

 Evelyn's Silva, Michaux's North American Sylva, Prince's 

 Treatises on Horticulture and on the Vine, Quintinye's 

 Compleat Gardener, and Wilson's American Ornithol- 

 ogy. There was then no American horticultural journal; 

 but the New England Farmer, the Genesee Farmer, and 

 the Southern Agriculturist were found on the Society's 

 table ; while of foreign periodicals and serials there 

 were the Pomological Magazine, London's Gardener's 

 Magazine, the Transactions of the London Horticultural 

 Society, the Annales de la Soci6te* d'Horticulture de 

 Paris, the Annales de 1'Institut Horticole de Fromont, 

 and the Floral Magazine. 



With the publication of the first Catalogue, the library 



