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have added many rare and valuable books, as will be seen by reference 

 to the accompanying lists. In view of the wants and deficiencies of the 

 Library, your Committee feel justified in asking as large an ai^propria- 

 tion as the judgment of the Finance Committee may deem justifiable. 



The sum of five hundred dollars is sufficient for the running expenses 

 of library and reading room, and for the purchase of a few new books, 

 but at least as large a sum should be placed at the disposal of the Com- 

 mittee, as a contingent fund, for the purchase of rare or valuable books. 

 Opportunities for such purchases occasionally occur, and often at low 

 prices, but they cannot be availed of unless the money is appropriated, 

 and before a quarterly meeting, at which alone approj)riations can be 

 made, the opportunity is lost. 



Library Accessions for 1868. 



purchased. 

 Manual of Cranberry Culture, B. Eastwood. 

 Botany of Beech^^'s Voyage to the Pacific and Behring's Strait. 

 Blume's Flora Javae, 4 vols. 



Orchidees de I'Archipel Indien et du Japon, Blume. 

 Rand's Bulbs, two copies. 

 Parkman's Book of Roses, duplicate. 



Rand's Parlor and Garden, " 



" Garden Flowers, " 



Henderson's Gardening for Profit, " 

 Strong's Grapes, " 



Hop Culture. 



Bonner's Method of Manure Making. 

 Our Garden Friends and Foes. 

 American Home Garden. 

 Figuier's Vegetable World. 

 Grindon's Phenomena of Plant Life. 

 Peat and its Uses. 

 Elements of Scientific Agriculture. 

 Draining for Profit and Health. 

 Warder's Hedges and Evergreens. 

 Elements of Agricultural Chemistry and Geology. 

 Boussingault's Rural Economy. 

 American Horticultural Annual, 1868. 

 Jaques' Garden and Manual of Horticulture. 

 Rivers' Miniature Fruit Garden. 

 Indian Corn, its Culture and Uses. 

 Jaeger's Life of Korth American Insects. 



