34 WORCESTER COUNTY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. [1885. 



REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN. 



To THE Members of the 



Worcester County Hortioultitral Society : 



Your Librarian respectfully submits the following report for 

 the year just closed. The number of Books and Periodicals 

 taken out during the year is 357. The number read and 

 consulted in the Library room is probably twice as many, no 

 accurate account having been kept of such. It is not necessary 

 for me to say to the members of this Society that your Library 

 is a very valuable one. Froni a very small beginning this 

 Library has gradually increased till now its books and periodicals 

 number more than 2,000. Many of its books are elegantly 

 bound, beautifully and profusely illustrated and necessarily 

 costly, and which could not be replaced, if, by accident of fire 

 or otherwise, they should be destroyed. 



But little has been done the past year in the line of binding. 

 There is real need of more book-cases for volumes already bound, 

 therefore your Library Committee have thought best to defer 

 operations in binding until more shelf-room is provided. 



The additions to the Library during the year by purchase or 

 gift are as follows : 



Cyclopaedia of Practical Floriculture; by Mrs. C. H. Turner ; 

 Society. 



Index to " The Garden" from 1871 to 1881 ; Society. 



Report of the Crops of the year and of Freight rates of 

 Transportation Companies, Dec, 1884; Henry Phelps. 



An Investigation of the composition of American Wheat and 

 Corn ; Henry Phelps. 



The Northern Sugar Industry. A record of its progress 

 during the season of 1883 ; Henry Phelps. 



The Soils and Products of Southern Louisiana ; Henry Phelps. 



Report of the organization and management of Seven Agri- 

 cultural Schools in Germany, Belgium and England ; Henry 

 Phelps. 



