58 WORCESTER COUNTY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. [1873. 



tinned to throng the Library, until it was filled to an almost uncom- 

 fortable degree. So obvious grew the difficult}-, and so insupportable was 

 it likel}' to become in the not distant future, that the Trustees of the 

 Society, at a special meeting holden on the 2.3d da}'^ of October ult., ap- 

 pointed a Committee with full power to secure additional accommodation, 

 engaging as much room as might appear desirable. Under that vote, the 

 Committee have taken leases of the suite of rooms recently occupied by 

 the Bay State Fire Insurance Co., and of a chamber adjoining the rear 

 room of that suite, with which latter a convenient and symmetrical union 

 can be easily effected through an archway that will require to be con- 

 structed. It is not doubted that the action of the Trustees, " compre- 

 hending their epoch," will receive your cordial approval. Twelve years 

 had well nigh elapsed since the 27th day of February, A. D. 1S62, when 

 the transfer of the Library to Horticultural Hall was initiated ; and 

 the system of Weekly Exhibitions had its origin in a display of Citrus 

 Aurantium by our esteemed associate,* whose locks Time and the Sioux 

 have dealt with so tenderl)^ The enormous aggregate of Twenty-Seven 

 Thousand articles displayed at these meetings, during this decade, of 

 which otherwise we should have preserved neither sight nor knowledge, 

 amply justifies a step adopted at the time with much timidity. So will it 

 be now. The Eoom in which this Annual Meeting is in session — which 

 is devoted to the uses of the Library, and wherein the Summer Exhibi- 

 tions must be held — no longer suffices. It proVed too small during the 

 past season. If, as 3'^our Secretary hopes and believes, the stimulus im- 

 parted to Amateur Florists in 1873 should cause a wider and generous 

 rivalry during the coming Summer, the Flowers must be accommodated 

 to the exclusion of the community ; and that, as flowers are contributed 

 to be seen, would not be a very desirable consummation. The Library 

 itself demands more space Our most valuable works of reference — 

 notably the Gardener^s Chronicle, the Agriculturist, but more especially 

 the Country Gentleman — are too cumbrous to be placed upon shelves not 

 constructed purposely for them. This inconvenience — the seriousness of 

 which in a Libr;iry intended for consultation can scarcely be exaggerated 

 — requires the speediest possible remedy 



The Librarian asks that he be authorized to transfer the Library of the 

 Society to the rooms just hired by the Trustees. 



Applications were long since made, informally, for a lease of our entire 

 Hall above the stores. Any ter.ant, no matter what his business, would 

 require the occupancy and sole use of our present Ijibrary-Room. There 

 can be no doubt that a sum may be realized from our property, over and 

 above its present rental, adequate to defray any probable expense that 



*Hon. Eilward Earle, of the Indian Peace Commission. 



