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Greenhouse and Flower Garden, Sayer's Cultivation of 

 the Dahlia and Cactus, and Berlese's Cultivation of the 

 Camellia. They stated that the library was in excel- 

 lent condition, and that none of the volumes were 

 known to be missing; and expressed the opinion that 

 the collection of books should be rendered more com- 

 plete by the addition of the most desirable standard and 

 periodical works as expeditiously as the funds of the 

 Society would permit, so that it might, at no distant day, 

 embrace every thing relating to the science of horticul- 

 ture and the art of gardening. In pursuance of this 

 object they recommended the purchase, provided the 

 amount to be expended during the year should not 

 exceed $300, of Michaux's Sylva Americana, to supply 

 the place of a set destroyed by fire ; the Transactions 

 of the London Horticultural Society, to complete the set 

 on hand; London's Gardener's Magazine, to complete 

 and continue the set; Mrs. London's work on Flori- 

 culture ; the Bon Jardinier for 1839 ; Paxton's Maga- 

 zine of Botany ; Edwards's Botanical Register ; London's 

 Suburban Gardener; and Berlese's Iconographie du 

 Genre Camellia. Benjamin V. French proposed Sir 

 John Sinclair's Correspondence ; Eliot's Essays on Field 

 Husbandry, published in 1747; Arthur Young's Agri- 

 cultural Tour; and RadclifFs Survey of Agriculture in 

 Flanders. Professor J. L. Russell proposed London's 

 Arboretum et Fruticetum Britannicum, De Candolle's 

 Organographie Ve"g6tale, and the London Horticultural 

 Society's Catalogues of Fruits. The committee were 

 authorized to carry out the principles and recommenda- 

 tions of their report, and also those added by Messrs. 

 French and Russell. 



From this time, the Committee on the Library appears 



