INDEX. 177 



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Cultivating Peach Orchards, 345 



and Pruning Peaches, 228 



Cultivation of Flowers,' 307 



Culture of the Quince, 237 



Cut Flowers, 372 



Cuttings, IIow to Grow, 309 



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Darwin on Acclimation, 27 



Davenport, Eugene, on Fanners' Gardens, 15 



Delegates to Rochester, Report of, 192 



Designs in Flowers, 372 



Disbursements for 1879 202 



Discussion on Exhibiting Fruit, 9 



Vegetable Gardening, 18 



School Ground Ornamentation, 13 



Hedges, 34 



Market Apples, 37 



the One Best Apple, 50 



Jjocal Fruit Shows, 



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Orchard Location, 55 



concerning Legislation, 58 



on Strawberries, 79 



the Baldwin apple, 88 



Testing Varieties, 95 



concerning Local Horticultural Societies, 168 



on Describing Apples bv Flowers, 171 



Thrips, . . .■" 174 



Distances to Plant Trees, 174 



the Yellows, 214 



Orchard Fertilizers, 266 



Small Fruits, 277 



Diseases and Insects, 357 



Dispersal of Seeds, 303 



Distances Apart to Plant Fruit Trees, 175 



Distances for Granes, 325 



Distribution of Volumes of 1878, 198 



Dowland, F. J., Letter from, 2 



Downing, Chas.. Brief Biograph3' of, 296 



Doyenne d'Ete, the, • 317 



Dunkley's, a Visit to, 334 



Duchesse Pear, the, 317 



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Earl)' Bearing Varieties, 49 



Eaton County, Report from, 77 



Eating Fruit, 353, 355 



Edgell, H. J., on the Yellows, 255 



Election of Officers, 210 



Elevation and Temperature, 93 



Embellishment of Country School Grounds, 131 



Engle, E. B., Letter from, 286 



English Sparrow, the, 355 



Entries at State Fair, 104 



Essay b)' the Rev. J. Sailor, 217 



Miss Emma Field, 219 



F. A. Gulley, 29, 224 



(/. N. Merriman, 52, 228 



Edgar M. Potter, 234 



Mrs. J. D. W. Fisk, 242 



C. J. Monroe, 258 



Joseph Lannin, 257 



Mrs. L. Millington, 260 



William Corner, 264 



J. P. LeLand, 267 



