LIBRARY. 
Extracts of a Report of the Library Committee of the 
Pennsylvania Horticultural Society. 
" The Library, although not extensive, embraces works of 
general interest and utility, as well to the amateur as the cul- 
tivator ; they have been selected upon subjects connected more or 
less intimately with the legitimate objects of the Society, and are 
confined to standard works and periodicals on Floriculture, Hor- 
ticulture, Landscape Gardening, Botany, Agriculture, and Na- 
tural History. 
"It is a source of encouragement to observe that this means 
of disseminating knowledge, is becoming so much a favourite with 
the members of the Society ; during the past few months, the 
number of volumes taken out by members have increased in a 
four-fold degree: thus evincing a desire to obtain and peruse 
useful treatises, which must result in much good, and tend greatly 
to the advancement of science. 
" It is to be hoped the Society will foster this nucleus, by judi- 
cious accessions, which in time will form a library every way 
worthy of this association ; in which might be found such works 
as would aid the present improving taste for Floriculture, elegant 
Horticulture, and Botany ; and thus keep pace with the progress 
of discovery in science, and improvement in rural economy : 
forming a collection not to be met with in other libraries, public 
or private. 
"The Catalogue gives a concise description of the subjects, of 
which each work treats, and is arranged for convenience of re- 
ference, under the heads of Horticulture and Floriculture, Botany, 
