TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



Constitution of the Society 5 



Standing Committees 8 



List of Members for 1888-89 11 



Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Meeting 25-140 



Letters Received from Absent Friends 27 



President's Address (Earle) 32 



Outlook of American Grape Culture (iJusmanw) 48 



Welcome Address (Myrick) 58 



Response to Welcome [Ridpath] 59 



Educational Influence of Local Horticultural Societies {Ohmer) 61 



Intensive Cultivation (Smith) 65 



Expansion of Small Fruit Culture and Its Effects (Augur) ,72 



Dewberry Culture (Stone) 77 



Diospyros Kaki in North America ( Van Deman) 79 



Will the Future Man Eat Peaches? (Munson) 83 



Thoughts on Birds and Forests (Minier) 92 



The Palms (Albrecht) 98 



Educational Needs of the American Farmer (Hilgard) 112 



A California Year (Field) 121 



Horticulture — Practical and Theoretical (Ridpath) 122 



Report of the Committee on Nomenclature (Lyon) 124 



Report on Experiment Stations (ilfyn'cA;) 127 



How to Get a Race of Hardy Fruits ( Walrous) 129 



Combined Agriculture and Horticulture (Ourtis) 134 



Color of Grapes (Marvin) 138 



Address of Welcome (Deere) 142 



Response to Welcome (Earle) 144 



Ode Conventional (Cutter) 145 



Fruit-Growing in Nevada (Lewers) 149 



Ornamentation of our Country Homes (Goodman) 152 



Our Neglected Native Fruits (Ragan) 159 



State and National Governments and Forestry (Fernow) 165 



Thoughts on Forestry in California (Douglas) 170 



Down the Volga (Budd) 181 



Limitations of Raisin Grape Culture ( Ouster) 192 



Rare Fruits of the Santa Barbara Region (Ford) 194 



Value of Arsenic as an Addition to Kerosene Emulsion (Riley) 199 



Hybridization (Henderson) 206 



Societies and Organizations (Munson) 210 



Limits of Profitable Citrus Fruit Culture (Rudisill) 218 



Evolution— What it Teaches and What it Does Not Teach (Ridpath) 224 



Olive Culture (Cooper) 225 



Agricultural and Horticultural Press 232 



Beyond the Sierras (Ridpath) 235 



