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to have reported with tolerable regularity; and the sum 

 of $150 was, with few exceptions, appropriated annually 

 for the increase of the library. September 26, 1840, 

 the committee reported that they had procured or made 

 arrangements to procure, M'Intosh's Flower Garden, 

 Orchard, and Greenhouse ; Kollar on Insects ; London's 

 Arboretum, Suburban Gardener, Encyclopaedia of Cot- 

 tage, Farm, and Village Architecture, his edition of 

 Eepton's Landscape Gardening ; the Gardener's Maga- 

 zine for 1839-40 ; Mrs. London's Flower Garden ; and 

 the last Catalogue of the London Horticultural Society. 

 The numbers of Berlese's Iconography of the Camellia, 

 and Audubon's Birds of America, were also to be re- 

 ceived as published. 



The next report was made on the 21st of January, 

 1843. The committee had lately held a meeting, at 

 which the Condition of the library was taken into con- 

 sideration with reference to the importance of complet- 

 ing the broken sets of valuable works, particularly the 

 London Horticultural Society's Transactions and Lou- 

 don's Gardener's Magazine. The set of Michaux's 

 Sylva wanted the third volume ; and the committee 

 recommended the purchase of the same, if it could be 

 obtained, or, in failure thereof, of the new edition, with 

 Nuttall's continuation. They, also recommended the 

 purchase of Noisette's Jardin Fruitier, with colored 

 plates of fruit ; six copies of the new edition of the 

 London Horticultural Society's Catalogue of Fruits ; 

 the Supplements to London's Hortus Britannicus and 

 Encyclopaedia of Plants ; Paxton's Botanical Dictionary ; 

 Torrey and Gray's Flora of North America; Dana's 

 Muck Manual; the last London edition of Lindley's 

 Theory of Horticulture ; Mrs. London's Ladies' Flower 



