INDEX. 



Page 



Grape growing— P. P. Dobozy 279 



Grape-rot 287 



Growing apples for profit— B. R. Boucher. 195 

 Growing and marketing fruit 405 



H 



Hardy bulbs— Mrs. G. E. Dugan 166 



Horticulture abroad— G. H. Van Houten. 174 

 Horticulture In Missouri, future of— J. G. 



Kinder 202 



Horticulture In schools— G. B. Lamm 267 



Horticulture, seventy years In— Sam'l 



Miller 294 



Horticultural questions 318 



I 



Improvement In small fruits needed— E. 

 P.Powell. 389 



Insects useful, and their products— Mary 

 E Murtfeldt. 228 



Insects— J. M. Stedman 298 



Insect enemies, Increase of— B. T. Gallo- 

 way, Washington, D. C 370 



Invitations to hold State meetings 251 



K 



Kittatlnny Blackberry— Jacob Faith 68 



Kelffer Pear and others— J. A. Durkes... 263 



L 



Lawn, how to make a— H. C. Irish 87 



Letters from — 



J. B. Wild &Bros 62 



Henry Schnell 69 



F. W. Taylor 103 



Z. Cupp 104 



Mrs. Wm. Rogers 104 



John P. Anderson 104 



John E . Carlett 104 



S.R.Hammond 104 



J. C. Whltten 104 



Miss M. E. Murtfeldt 135 



John W.Clark 214 



Local Hortlculural Societies— Mrs. A. L. 

 Moore ...^ 146 



M 



Members, honorary 3 



Members, life 3 



Missouri hills for fruit growlng-L.Gelger 181 

 Miscellaneous papers 343 



New Ideas In potato culture— L H. Reld, 

 Wisconsin 288' 



o 



Officers for 1897 3 



Officers elected for 1898 225 



Orcharding— L. xV Goodman 117 



Orchards, first six years of— D. A. Rob- 



nett 163 



Orchards in Northeast Missouri— G. N. 



Ratllfl 190 



Orchard, the home— N. F. Murray .347 



Orchard work. Important winter— L. II. 



Pammel, Iowa 348 



Page 

 Orchards, top grafting In commercial— 



W. M. Bomberger, Iowa 352 



Organization of .State society ... 5 



Organization of Locals 7 



Organization in marketing products— P. 



M. Kiely 403 



Ornamental trees— P. C. Myers 153 



Peach growing, profitable- F. H. Speak- 



man §3 



Peach pruning, the 363 



Peach growing 350 



Peaches , among the 362 



Peach culture, national experiments In 359 



Peach orchard, cost of developing a 360 



Peaches, plans for gathering, sorting, 



handling and packing— H. E. Moseley 197 

 PeachesforCentralMlssourl— A. J. Davis 271 

 Peaches, classification of variety— R. 



H. Price, Texas 364 



Peach trees, the planting of— F. Holsln- 



ger, Kansas.... 368 



Peaches, thinning of 368 



Peach yellows 373 



P^ach spraying 373 



Peach disease— H. E. VanDeman, Pa.... 374 



Pear blight to date— H. T. Fuller 84 



Pear trees, dwarf 384 



Pears, ripening of— J. Meehan, Pennsyl- 

 vania 386 



Pear, Keiffer and others— J. A. Durkes.. 263 



Persimmon , seedless 104 



Persimmon, wild— C. Glover 384 



Phenological notes— H. 0. Irish 325 



Plant lice and their enemies— Mary E. 



Murtfeldt 135 



Plants, best bedding— E. H. Michel 149 



Plants, hardy herbaceous— J. A Durkes. 153 

 Plant Russians cautiously— C. L Wat- 

 rows , Iowa 353 



Plum orchards, care of— A. B. Dennis, 



Iowa 379 



Plums, seedling .380 



Plums, growing 381 



Plum, Wild Goose 381 



Plums, Japanese 383 



Plum orchard, commercial— G. L. Perry, 



Michigan 384 



Pollnation, studies In— J. C. Whltten 101 



Potato culture, new Ideas In— L. H. Reed, 



Wis 288 



Poems 345, 388 



Preserving fluid 104 



Pruning apple trees— E Reynolds, Wis.. 351 



Q 



Questions and suggestions— J. C. Evans. 254 



Questions, horticultural 318 



Quinces vs. peaches 387 



Quinces, growing 388 



R 



Raspberry cultivation— D. A. Turner ... 56 

 Raspberries, fall bearing— J. Meehan, Pa. 401 



Raspberries, the fall planting of .398 



Raspberries, culture of 397 



