5Q WORCESTER COUNTY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. [1863. 



REPORT OF EDWARD W. LIXCOLX, Secretary. 

 January 8, A. D. 1863. 



Tu the Trustees of the Worcester County Horticultural Society : 



At a meeting of the Trustees, holden upon the 12th day of February, A. D., 

 1862, it was voted to accept the Report of the Special Committee appointed to 

 consider the expediency of removing the Library of the Society to Horticul- 

 tural Hall, and to empower the " Committee on the Library to effect such 

 removal at their best discretion ;" and, by subsequent action of the Trustees, 

 Messrs. Jonathan Grout, Clarendon Harris, D, Waldo Lincoln and George 

 Jaques, were constituted the " Committee on the Library." By their labors the 

 work of transferring the books and cases was safely and speedily accomplished. 



The Librarian, Clarendon Harris, Esq., who had discharged the duties of 

 his office for so many years with singular efficiency and fidelity, finding it 

 impossible to continue in that position in the new locality, greatly to the regret 

 of the Board of Trustees, resigned his place. At the request of the Committee, 

 the Secretary consented to assume the office, and by so doing, it has become 

 his duty to submit to the Trustees a report of the present condition of the 

 Library in itself and as affected by its change of location. 



The condition of the volumes is most satisfactory. Being mostly neatly and 

 strongly bound, it would seem that the most ordinary care should suffice to 

 preserve them from injury. That measure of precaution, coupled with the 

 good taste inseparable from membership of the Society, has amply availed ; 

 and it is believed that few equal collections of books can be shown, which have 

 been gathered together so long, where so little actual damage is visible. 



But little has been done to augment the collection upon the shelves, beyond 

 the acceptance of such donations as friendship or the sympathy of a congenial 

 taste might proffer. Of those purchased, the entire list may be briefly recited : 

 Journal of Horticulture, 1 vol. quarto ; Florist, 1 vol. 8vo.; Loudon's Encyclo- 

 paedia of Plants, edition of 1855, 1 vol. 8vo.; Revue Horticole, 1861, 1 vol. 

 8vo.; Open-Air Grape Culture (Phin.), 1862, 1 vol. 12mo. 



And the following were donations : American Farmer's New and Universal 

 Hand Book, from D. Waldo Lincoln ; Harris on Insects, new and illustrated 

 edition of 1862, from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts ; Agricultural 

 Report, Patent office, 1860, from D. P. Holloway, Esq.; Mechanical Report, 

 do., 1860, from Hon. Charles Sumner; Agricultural Report, do., 1861, from 

 D. P. Holloway, Esq. ; Transactions New York State Agricultural Society, 

 1860, from C. L. Flint, Esq.; Transactions California do., 1859, from J. D. 



