REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN. 



To THE Members of the 



Worcester County Horticultural Society. 



The Library has been considerably improved during the past 

 year by the addition of a new bookcase and the enlargement of 

 two of the old ones. There is still need of more improvement 

 and space by replacing two at least of the old cases with more 

 spacious, convenient and modern ones. The increased shelf-room 

 made by the recent changes is already occupied and more is 

 needed, not only for convenience but for the credit of the Society. 

 The most important work done for the Library during the year 

 just closed has been the binding of about 250 volumes of many 

 pamphlets and reports that had accumulated during several years 

 past, which for various reasons had not been bound. The princi- 

 pal works bound are the English Garden, the English Gardeners' 

 Chronicle, the English Agriculturist, the American Garden, the 

 Country Gentleman, the American Agriculturist, Transactions of 

 the Mass. Horticultural Society, Reports of the American Fomo- 

 logical Society, and several volumes of the Journal of Horticul- 

 ture. There are a considerable number of pamphlets and reports 

 yet to be bound, which will be finished as fast as we can find room 

 for them. The following list comprises the books, pamphlets, 

 bulletins and reports that have been received during the past 

 year, either by purchase, gift or otherwise : 



The Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening, a practical and scien- 

 tific encyclopaedia of horticulture for gardeners and botanists, 4 

 vols., 4to, by George Nicholson, A. L. S., Curator lioyal Botanic 

 Gardens, Kew. 



Report of the Commissioner of Education, 1887-88. 



Proceedings of the Twenty-second session of the American 

 Pomological Society ; from F. M. Marble. 



Bulletin No. 1; Report of the Proceedings of the Department 



