REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN. 



To THE Members of the 



WoRCESTEK County Horticultural Society. 



In presenting the customary annual report your Librarian does 

 not presume to make an extended one. He can only give the con- 

 dition of the Library, an account of how much the members of the 

 Society have availed themselves of its privileges, and the additions 

 in books, pamphlets, and reports during the year just closed. 

 The number of books and pamphlets taken by members is about 

 200, a somewhat smaller number than last year. A large num- 

 ber of the serial i)ublications lias been read and consulted in the 

 Library. A beginning has been made in binding which will be 

 continued ; and more shelf-room has been ordered which will soon 

 be in place. Your Librarian is well aware that Horticultural 

 reading is not confined entirely to our Library, as many of our 

 members subcribe annually for one or more Horticultural papers 

 or magazines. 



It is very well known however that Horticultural literature is 

 limited, and but few elaborate works devoted solely to Horticul- 

 tural science can be obtained yearly, and what are published are 

 usually quite expensive, which puts it out of the power of the aver- 

 age reader to purchase, therefore it is evident to all that a Society 

 like this, which can afford to place upon its shelves all, or nearly 

 all of what is worth putting there, in this line for reference and 

 use by its members, is doing an incalculable amount of good. 



Your Library Committee has been fortunate in procuring 

 a complete set of the Cottage Gardener (now published as the 

 Journal of Horticulture), at a very low price. The Society has 

 been a subscriber for this work for a long time, but there were 

 several volumes lacking in the series, and by this purchase the 

 missing volumes are made good. 



