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the greatest encouragement, the value of membership 

 being much enhanced by a good library, as many indi- 

 viduals were induced to join it in order to receive in- 

 formation from books, which, from their cost, they were 

 unable to purchase. They stated that the appropriation 

 of the last year had been expended in the purchase of 

 the books named in the report of the committee, and 

 that such as were not to be obtained in this country 

 would be received from London. They asked for an 

 appropriation of $150, and renewed the recommendation 

 of the committee of the previous year, that an annual 

 appropriation for the purchase of books should be made 

 at the same time with the appropriations for premiums 

 for flowers, fruits, and plants. A librarian had been 

 appointed, who would faithfully attend to the duties of 

 his office, agreeably to the by laws regulating the loan 

 of books. Many pamphlets and periodicals would be 

 bound up, and the committee indulged the hope that 

 the library would be put in a condition worthy of the 

 Society. 



But little was said of the library after this, until Jan- 

 uary 9, 1847, when the Society anticipated the action 

 of the committee by a vote appropriating $300 for the 

 increase of the library, and $50 for the salary of the 

 librarian, at the same time directing the committee to 

 report to the Society, for approval, a list of such books 

 as they would recommend. About two months later, 

 the committee reported that they had recently re-ar- 

 ranged the books, and published a new catalogue. For 

 two or three years but little money had been appropri- 

 ated for the purchase of books, and few added to the 

 library. The Transactions of the London Horticultural 

 Society had not been completed, and they recommended 



