50 WORCESTER COUNTY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. [1892. 



In 1862, the same year in which weekly meetings were insti- 

 tuted, the library was removed to the room in Horticnltural Hall, 

 known as the Library or Hall of Flora, where it has since 

 remained. The number of volumes at the time of its removal 

 to Horticultural Hall in 1862, was 441. The present number is 

 about 3,000 bound volumes exclusive of pamphlets and serials. 

 No i)ains or expense has been spared to make this a complete 

 working library of Horticultural and Botanical Science. 



Among the notable works upon its shelves are : 



The Floral Magazine (English) of 20 volumes. 



Cnrtis's Botanical Magazine, an English work, containing over 

 2,000 plates, colored from nature, and complete in 74 volumes. 



The Journal of Horticulture, an English work in 63 volumes. 



Prize Essays and Transactions of the Highland Society. 



The Scotch Journal of Agriculture. 



The Cottage Gardener, an English Work. 



The Agricultural Gazette, English. 



The Gardener's Chronicle, English. 



Paxton's Magazine of Botany in 16 volumes," English. 



The Garden, English. 



L'lllustration Horticole. 



Revue Horticole, from 1855 to 1892, and comprising, 37 

 volumes. 



Flore des Serres et des Jardins de L'Europe. 



Median's Gardener's Monthly in. 28 volumes. 



Hovey's Magazine. 



Country Gentleman. 



Herefordshire Pomona. 



Pinetum Britannicura. 



Silva of North America. 



At the weekly exhibitions the library proved an invaluable 

 aid. Its books of reference were in constant use by the com- 

 mittees of the different departments of fruit, flower and vegeta- 

 ble, notal)ly by the committee on nomenclature. As authorities 

 of ultimate resort Downing and Leroy were thumbed as persist- 

 ently as the schoolboy thumbs his Worcester or his Wel)ster. 

 In fact, it was largely by its aid that the Society was able so 



