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Mushrooms. Falconer; Gardiner; Hard; Jackson; Jacob; Milliken; 



Mushrooms for All; Palmer; Peck. 

 Plant-breeding. Bailey; DeVries; Harwood. 

 Propagation. Bailey; Fuller; Howard; Jenkins, J.; Lelong. 

 Pruning, grafting, and spraying. Bailey; Gouts; Des Cars; Dol- 



lins; Larsen; Lodeman; Northrop; Sargent; Stedman; Weed, C. 



M.; Weed, H. E.; Whitten. 

 Trees. Davey; Des Cars; Dollins; Egleston; Fernow; Meehan; 



Peets; Powell, E. C.; Roe; Solotarofl. 



Vegetables and vegetable-gardening. Allen, C. L.; Bailey; Bate- 

 man; Bennett, Ida; Bridgeman; Buist; Burpee; Burr; Complete 



Kitchen and Fruit Gardener; Cook; Corbett; Darlington; 



Davis, J. R.; Dreer; Every Man His Own Gardener; Fessenden; 



Fitch; French; Fullerton; Green, S. B.; Gregory; Greiner; 



Halsted; Hogg; Holmes, F.; Kennedy; Kiely; Kitchen and Fruit 



Gardener; Kruhm; Landreth; Lloyd; McNeil; Morse; Oemler; 



Provanpher; Quinn; Rawson, N.; Rawson, W. W.; Rockwell; 



Rolfs.; Sevey; Skinner, H.; Stringfellow ; Thompson, F. S.; 



Tillinghast; Turner, W.; Vick; Waldin; Warner, A.; Wash- 

 burn & Co.; Watts; Wickson; Wilson; Winkler; Young. 

 Asparagus, special books: Herrmann; Hexamer. 

 Cabbage, special books: Allen, C. L. ; Cook; Gregory; Landreth; 



Lupton; Pedersen; Tillinghast's Plant Manual. 

 Cauliflower, special books: Allen, C. L. ; Brill; Crozier; Gregory; 



Lupton; Pedersen; Suffa. 

 Celery, special books: Beattie; Crider; Greiner; Hollister; Landreth; 



Livingston; Niven; Pratt; Rawson, W. W.; Roessle; Schuur; 



Stewart, H. L. ; Tillinghast's Plant Manual; Van Bochove; 



Vaughan's Celery Manual. 

 Cucumber, special book: Collins. 

 Melons, special books: Blinn; Burpee; Troop. 

 Onion, special books: Gregory; Greiner; Landreth; Onion Book; 



Onions; Underwood, J. P. 

 Potato, special books: Best; Bosson; Carman; Cultivation of the 



Potato; Fitz; Fraser; Grubb; McLaurin; Matchette; Price, R. 



H.; Rogers, E. A.; Tenbrook; Terry; Van Ornam. 

 Squash, special book: Gregory. 

 Tomato, special books: Day; Livingston; Mitchell; Smith, F. F.; 



Taylor, H.; Tracy; Van Camp. 

 Water-gardening. Bissett; Conard; Tricker. 

 Window-gardening. Allen, Phoebe; Barnes; Casey; Dorner; Hein- 



rich; Hillhouse; Holmes, J. H.; Mulertt; Rand, E. S.; Randolph; 



Rexford; Rockwell; Rose; Waugh; Williams, H. T.; Winter 



Gardening in a Bay Window. 



Reports of horticultural societies and organizations. 



Although the present discussion aims only to supply 

 librarians and collectors with information as to what 

 reports and series have been published, a brief sketch 

 of the beginnings of horticultural societies hi North 

 America may supply a useful background or setting. 



Although the year 1785 witnessed the establishment 

 of the Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture 

 and the Agricultural Society of South Carolina, 1889 the 

 Nova Scotia Society, and 1792 the organization of the 

 Massachusetts Society for Promoting Agriculture, it 

 was apparently not until 1818 that the first horticultural 

 organization came into existence; this was the New 

 York Horticultural Society, now extinct. The second, 

 organized in 1827, was the Pennsylvania Horticultural 

 Society, which is still in vigorous existence. The third, 

 according to Manning, was the Domestic Horticultural 

 Society, organized at Geneva, New York, in 1828, and 

 which was the forerunner of the Western New York Hor- 

 ticultural Society, the latter having continued for more 

 than fifty years. The next organization was apparently 

 the Albany Horticultural Society, established in 1829, 

 but which expired long ago. In 1829, also, the Massa- 

 chusetts Horticultural Society was organized, an associa- 

 tion which, in the character of the men who have been 

 members and in the large service it has rendered to the 

 advancement of rural taste, stands without a rival in 

 the country. The American Pomological Society was 

 organized in 1850 by a union of the North Ameri- 

 can Pomological Convention and the American Con- 

 gress of Fruit-Growers, both of which were established 

 in 1848. The Congress of Fruit-Growers was a meeting 

 held in New York on the 10th of October, 1848, at the 

 call of the Massachusetts, Philadelphia, New Jersey 

 and New Haven Horticultural Societies and the Board 

 of Agriculture of the American Institute of the City of 

 New York. The Pomological Convention held its first 



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meeting on the 1st of September in Buffalo. The 

 American Pomological Society is undoubtedly the 

 strongest organization of pomologists in the world. 

 A. J. Downing wrote in 1852, that "within the last ten 

 years the taste for horticultural pursuits has astonish- 

 ingly increased in the United States. There are, at the 

 present moment, at least twelve societies in different 

 parts of the Union devoted to the improvement of gar- 

 dening, and to the dissemination of information on the 

 subject." At the present time there are over 500 such 

 societies, and the average attendance at the meetings 

 cannot be less, in the aggregate, than 20,000. From a 

 careful estimate made in 1891, it was concluded that 

 the aggregate attendance for that year at the national, 

 state, provincial and district societies "probably 

 exceeded 5,000." 



There are now more than a dozen national societies 

 devoted to horticulture or some branch of it. The most 

 gratifying feature of this movement toward organiza- 

 tion, however, is the establishment of great numbers of 

 local societies, florists' clubs, and the like, which sus- 

 tain the interest in horticultural pursuits and foster 

 pride in the personal surroundings of the members. All 

 this great body of societies is proof enough that there is a 

 rapidly expanding and abiding love of horticulture in 

 America, and that it must increase with the increasing 

 amelioration of the country. 



There are few state or provincial departments of 

 horticulture, but most of the states and provinces have 

 bureaus of agriculture and these may publish horti- 

 cultural matter. In this discussion, however, only 

 those official establishments that are specially organized 

 for horticultural work are included. 



REPORTS OF BOARDS AND SOCIETIES. 



In the following paragraphs an effort is made to give 

 such information as a librarian needs in the collecting of 

 the published annual reports of existing national, state, 

 provincial and regional horticultural societies in the 

 United States and Canada, and of the reports of state and 

 provincial boards, commissions, or departments of horti- 

 culture. The publications of these various bodies follow 

 so many methods and there is often such lack of continuity 

 in them that it is difficult to follow them as a whole 

 and, particularly, to know when sets and series are com- 

 plete. As an aid in determining some of these points, 

 corollary information of the societies and boards is given: 

 these pieces of information are intended only as secondary 

 aids to the librarian and not as descriptions or histories 

 of the organizations. 



AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NURSERYMEN. An annual report is 

 published by the society. The first report was published in 

 1890 under the title, "Proceedings of the American Associa- 

 tion of Nurserymen." The publication is continuous under the 

 same title. Total number of volumes, 24. There have been no 

 special reports. Organized 1876. Address, 204 Granite Build- 

 ing, Rochester, N. Y. 



AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PARK SUPERINTENDENTS. This associa- 

 tion has published six reports for the years 1908-43 inclusive. 

 It has also issued eleven bulletins on special subjects relating 

 to roads, walks, planting of parks, and the like. Address, 

 United States Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. 



AMERICAN CARNATION SOCIETY. Annual reports are issued by the 

 society. The first report was published in 1891 under the title, 

 "Annual Repprt of the American Carnation Society." The 

 publication still continues under this title. Total number of 

 volumes, 23. There have been no special reports. Address, 

 Indianapolis, Ind. 



AMERICAN CRANBERRY GROWERS' ASSOCIATION. A semi-annual 

 report is issued by the society. The first report was published 

 in 1879 under the title, "New Jersey Cranberry Growers' 

 Association." The publication has been continuous with one 

 exception. Report of January meeting is entitled, "Proceedings 

 of the Annual Meeting;" report of August meeting, "Proceed- 

 ings of Annual Convention." Total number of volumes, 70. 

 Address, Hammonton, N. J. 



AMERICAN GENETIC ASSOCIATION, formerly called the American 

 Breeders' Association. Annual reports were published for the 

 years 1905-12, under the title, "Annual Report of the American 

 Breeders' Association." Total number of volumes 8. From 

 1910-13, the "American Breeders' Magazine" was published 

 quarterly. Beginning January, 1914, its name was changed to 

 the "Journal of Heredity," which is published monthly, and the 

 reports of meetings are published herein. Address, Washington, 

 D. C. 



