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tioli, Ray, Evelyn’s Sylva, Miller’s Gardener's dictionary and other 
gardening books; twenty-one editions of Dodoen’s Cruijdeboeck and 
other works, 1521-1644; twenty-five works and editions by Leonhard 
Fuchs, 1531-1572; nine of Herrera’s Obra de agricultura, 1513-1608, 
and 1819; eleven of Huerto, 1567-1616; sixteen of La Quintinye’s In- 
struction pour les jar dins fruitier s, 1690-1756; eleven of Liger’s Jar- 
dinier fieuriste, 1706-1792; six of Tabernaemontanus’ Eicones planta- 
rum, 1588-1731; Ptolemy’s Geographia, 1562; four editions of Man wood’s 
Treatise and discourse of the laives of the forest, 1598. 1616, 1665, 1717, 
and Aristoteles’ Problemata quae ad stirpium genus & oleracea perti- 
nent, 1539. Other books in this group of more than usual interest are 
Boym’s Flora sinensis, 1556, the first book on Chinese botany published 
in Europe; Blake’s Compleat gardener' s practice, 1664; Gerard’s if er6a/, 
1597, containing a manuscript note dating from the time of Shakespeare; 
Le grant herbier, cir. 1520; The greate herball, 1561, and many others. 
Many of these books are curiously or beautifully bound, and very rare. 
On this floor besides the Pre-Linnaean books are other books of special 
interest, Wangenheim’s Beschreibung einiger nor darner ikanischen holz- 
und buscharten, 1781, the first book on American trees by a German; 
Belon’s De arboribus coniferis, 1553, the first book on Conifers; a copy of 
Humphrey Marshall’s Arbustrum americanum, 1785, the first book on 
American trees written by an American; Faxon’s original drawings 
for Sargent's Silva; and works on tea, coffee, cocoa, silk, cinchona, 
rubber and roses, many of them extremely rare. The rose collection is 
a large one and includes, besides the editions of Redoute, Rdssig’s Die 
rosen, bought at the Castlecraig sale in England. 
The collection of publications on conifers contains all the books which 
are known to have been published about these plants; and it may be 
added here that the collection of conifers in the herbarium, many of 
the species being represented in long series valuable for study, is prob- 
ably the best in the world, only five or six species which grow on the 
mountains of New Guinea and on the Fiji Islands being now unrepre- 
sented in it. 
The library contains many books which are not necessary for prac- 
tical work with the living plants of the Arboretum, but it has been 
made with the idea that while only a few plants can be cultivated here 
and that it would be a slow and practically impossible undertaking to 
make a complete herbarium of the trees of the world, books about 
them are interesting and that the library could be made one of the 
important departments of the Arboretum. It is believed to be the 
largest and best arranged dendrological library in the world, and there 
are few libraries anywhere devoted exclusively to a comparatively 
small subject which are as large and as nearly complete. 
With the exception of twenty-five volumes written by members of 
the staff and published by the Arboretum this library, now valued at 
about $1,000,000, has been presented by a few friends to the Univer- 
sity. 
With this issue the publication of the Bulletin will cease until the 
autumn. 
