406 STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Pear trees, how to set 170 



pruning of - 170 



Peas, methods of field culture of 24 



profit ingrowing 35 



sowing of in apple orchards --- 259, 276 



Pests, new and old 131 



Pinhole borer of the peach 133 



Planting, excess of 177 



Plants, seasons of rest for 248 



Plum, best varieties of 373 



bladders or pockets 137 



buds, relative hardiness of 361 



culture in Oceana county .' 43, 4& 



western New York 45 



culture, points in 173 



Plum-growing, notes upon 232, 233 



Plum orchards, large 102 



rot, spraying for 331 



the Lyon, naming of 366 



preferred varieties of 46, 37S 



Plum trees, a disease of 137 



dropping of leaves of 376 



fertilizer for - 101 



following old apple orchard 377 



pruning of 173 



remedy for unfruitfulness of 375 



spraying of 173 



varieties of 173, 373 



Plums, a new disease of 47 



classification of, as to hardiness 365 



Pollination of blossoms 362 



Productiveness due to certain physical conditions of plants 249 



Profit from wrapping fruit 156 



Profits, greatest in the fancy markets 156 



Pruning, best time for 330-335 



in winter 331-335,369 



object and limitations of 326,329-335 



of peach trees 61,296,310,369 



R. 



Radishe?, remarks upon 353 



Rapp, C. N., paper by 2!0 



Raspberry, notes on varieties of 234 



the, culture of 35, 37 



harvesting of 36 



Marlboro, experience with 34 



varieties tested 34, 36 



Raspberries, profits from „ 37 



Reid, Edwy C, annual report by 197 



Reports of this Society, value of 200 



Resolutions 2, 112,193 



Retrospect of the Society 204 



Review of the year 1896 in horticulture 198, 231 



Rice, L. B., report by 93 



Rork, W. W., paper by 9,346 



Rose, best commercial varieties of 254 



culture outside and under glass 253 



hybrid perpetual, varieties of 253 



hybrid tea, varieties of 253 



Roses, notes upon 247 



Rot of the peach, treatment for 298, 333 



Russell, F. J,, paper by 165 



