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Pages 221 to 293 contain Transactions of th'e Horticultural Society of Northern III. 



Pages 294 to 30S contain Transactions of the Galesburg Society. 



Pages 309 to 327 contain Transactions of the Alton Society. 



Pages 328 to 334 contain Transactions of the Warsaw Society. 



Pages 335 to 339 contain Transactions of ihe Jacksonville Society. 



Pages 340 to 342 contain Transactions of the Champaign Society. 



Aildress of Welcome i, 222 



Response by the President 3, 223 



Pres. Hammond's annual 16 



Pres. Scofield's annual 224 



Report upon 88, 275 



Ad j ourn ment — Final 292 



Alton Horticultural Society 309 



Twenty-five years ago 325 



Annual Meeting, 1876 I 



Locating, 1877 95 



Time of meeting 344 



■ Society of Northern Illinois, 1877. ..277 



Apple Growing — Discussion upon, 61, 251 



List of. 251 



Time to gather 261 



Arboriculture — Report upon.. 1 15, 116, 278 



liancroft L. — Report by 24 



Barter O. L. — Essay by ^^ 



Balsiger J. — Report by 103 



Berry Culture — Report upon 22, 24 



Bryant Sen. Arthur — Report by 256 



Black H. A. — Address of Welcome ...222 



Bird Songs and Bird Labors 271 



Birds — Essay upon 96 



Discussion upon 57 



Report upon 51 



List of 43 



Food of 37 



Scientific names 54 



Bill for a Bird Law 246 



Action of the Society 247 



Birth of the Illinois State Horticultural 



Society 134 



Blackberries — Report upon 229 



Blackberries — Discussion upon 26, 233 



Varieties — Kittaiinny 23 



Botany — Report upon 109, 213 



Discussion u])0n 109 



Importance of the subject 1 10 



Burrill Prof. T. J. — Report by 213 



By-Laws xiii 



Canning Fruit 259 



Carpenter A. A. — Essay by 297 



Champaign Horticultural Society 340 



Chapman B. H. — Essay l)y 338 



Cherries — Discussion upon 28, 229 



List of. 228 



Chicago Exposition — Shall we exhibit? 



264, 277 



Cider — Report upon 259, 276 



Circulation of Sap — Discussion upon. ..297 



Comstock Prof. — Essay by 300 



Cochrane J. W. — On Orchids 236 



Committee on General Horticulture ix 



Committees — Appoiniment of 9 



Corn — Its antiquity 32S 



Committees — Special 30 



Standing, 1877 x 



Constitution of State Society xiii 



Counties — Report from — Grundy 9 



Kane, Kendall and DeKalb 9 



La Salle 10 



Bond and Clinton 98 



Green and Jersey lOO 



Calhoun, Macoupin and Madison lOl 



Montgomery 104 



Randolph 105 



St. Clair 106 



