REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN. 



Horticultural Hall, Worcester, 

 October 31, 1896. 



To THE Members of the 



Worcester County Horticultural Society. 



Your Librarian respectfully submits the following report : 



The Library has been open every day, Sunday excepted, this 

 year, the same as in the past three years, pioving each year by 

 a more general use that it is of o^reat value to those interested 

 in Mycology and Native Flowers and Ferns. Attention is 

 called to the books added the past two years on these subjects. 

 Your Committee on Library and Publication have been for- 

 tunate in securing the services of Miss Rice, who has been at 

 work on a Card Catalogue, which will be ready for use February 

 1, 1897. 



The following Books, Periodicals and Papers have been added 

 during the past year : — 



Reports of the Commissioner of Education. Vols. 1 and 2, 1892 

 and 1893. Vols. 1 and 2, 1893 and 1894. 



United States Department of Agriculture : 



Circular No. 15. General work against insects which defoliate 

 Shade Trees in Cities and Towns. 



Field Columbian Museum Publications: Publication No. 6. 

 Report Scries. Vol. 1, No. 1. 



Annual Report of the Director to the Trustees. 1894 and 1895. 



West Virginia Experimental Station. Bulletin Nos. 40, 44. 



Connecticut State Board of Agriculture and Experimental Station. 

 Report for 1895. T. S. Gold, secretary. 



Transactions of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society. Part 2. 

 1894. 



