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fic and educational institutions of this country and of Europe. 

 Continued effort also has been made to secure by purchase com- 

 plete sets of such horticultural periodicals as may yet be wanting 

 in the library. 



The result has been satisfactory and encourages further endeavor 

 in this direction. The following foreign and American periodi- 

 cal publications have been added during the year : 



Annales de la Societe horticole, vigneronne, et forestiere de 1' 

 Aube, Annees 1S66-1904. 



Annales de la Societe d' Horticulture de la Haute Garonne. 

 Volumes 47-51, 1900-1904. 



Bulletin de la Societe d' Horticulture et de Viticulture d' Epernay. 

 Volumes 1-31, 1873-1904. 



Bulletin de la Societe d' Horticulture de Geneve. 1903-1905. 



L' Horticulture ^Nloderne. Bourg-La-Reine, 1905. 



The Journal of the Board of Agriculture. London. Volume 

 12, 1905. 



Rosen Zeitung. Volumes 1-19. 1886-1904. 



Mollers Deutsche Gartner-Zeitung. Volumes 1-15, 1886-1900. 



The Farmers' Register. Richmond and Petersburg, Va. Vol- 

 umes 1-10, 1833-1842. 



In June an exchange of duplicate material with the Library of 

 the University of Wisconsin resulted in the acquisition of 63 annual 

 reports of horticultural and agricultural societies and 54 miscella- 

 neous volumes and pamphlets. All were desirable additions to 

 the library, many of them being early reports now difficult to obtain, 

 and fill many gaps in our collection. 



A hundred or more miscellaneous volumes which have been 

 laid aside for a number of years by reason of damage, incomplete- 

 ness, or awaiting additional parts have been repaired, completed, 

 and bound as far as practicable, and all restored to the library 

 shelves.' 



An unusually large proportion of the Library Appropriation has 

 been devoted this year to binding, so that all current periodicals 

 are now bound up to date. 



The number of accessions including bound volumes and pam- 

 phlets has been 1236; rather more than the average of recent years. 

 Progress has been made in the reclassification of the library and a 



