Complimentary 
NEW SERIES VOL. X 
NO. 14 
ARNOLD ARBORETUM 
HARVARD UNIVERSITY 
BULLETIN 
OF 
POPULAR INFORMATION 
JAMAICA PLAIN. MASS. JULY 24. 1924 
The Library, which was begun in 1873, now contains 35,471 complete 
volumes, and 8000 pamphlets. In the large eastern hall of the second 
floor are arranged the books of reference and the Floras of all countries 
which contain accounts of woody as well as of herbaceous plants, the 
general library Catalogue, and the collection of photographs. In the 
small room over the front door books of travel containing information 
about trees are arranged, among which perhaps the rarest is the Dutch 
copy of Michaux’s Travels. In the large room which occupies the west- 
ern end of this floor of the building, divided by shelves into six com- 
partments used by students, the current periodicals numbering between 
300 and 400, and representing nearly every country are grouped, to- 
gether with the no longer issued periodicals, by countries, arranged 
alphabetically as far as the shelving will permit. Among these period- 
icals are complete sets of the Gardeners' chronicle, the Botanical mag- 
azine, the Botanical register, Loudon’s Gardener' s magazine, Loddiges’ 
Botanical cabinet and his trade catalogues, a set of the Revue hor- 
ticole, lacking three early volumes, the oldest garden magazine still 
published, a set of the rare L' Horticulteur beige in five volumes from 
1833-1838, and a nearly complete set of the Tokyo Botanical magazine. 
Here also is Dietrich’s Oekonomisch-botanisches garten- journal in six 
volumes 1795-1806, almost unknown in America, a complete set of the 
Verhandlungen des Vereins zur befdrderung des gartenbaues in Berlin, 
the Annales de I'Institut horticole de Fromont, 1829-34, and Landreth’s 
Floral magazine and botanical repository, 1832-34, a rare American 
journal. 
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