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Tkaksactioxs for the Year 1892-3 3 



Report of the Secretary : 3 



The World's Fair 6 



List of Maine Apples for 6 



Wax Models of Maine Apples 10 



Officers for 1893 ^2 



Members of the Society 13 



Treasurer's Report 15 



Report of Annual Exhibition 1" 



List of Premiums awarded 21 



B[ !*iNESs Transactions 30 



Annual Meeting; 30 



Winter Meeting 31 



Jtleetings of Executive Committee 34 



PiBLic Meetings 37 



During the Fair 39 



Union Winter Meetings 39 



Programme 40 



Organized Horticulture in the State of Maine, by D. H. 



Knowltou 4'^ 



Benefit Derived ' by Top-Grafting the Baldwin, by Frank 



Bowman 48 



The Reverse of the Picture, by S. T. Cannon 52 



The Present Status of the Russian Apple Question, by W. A. 



Taylor 56 



Cranberry Cultuie, by Rev. N. H. Chamberlain 61 



Spraying Experiments in 1892, by Prof. W. M- Munson 67 



Agriculture and Horticulture in the Schools 73 



Study of Plant Life in the Schools, by Miss H. M. Merrill 73 



The Apple in Cookery, by Miss Anna Barrows 78 



Floriculture, bj' Mrs. Alonzo Towle 86 



Bulbs for the Window Garden, by Mrs. B. T Townseud 92 



More Education in Floriculture Necessary to Profitable Enjoy- 

 ment Therein, by Edward H. Goddard 9-4 



The Growing of Plants, by Charles S. Walker 101 



Orchards aud Orchardists in Maine 109 



In Memoriam : 



Elijah Low 115 



James Nutting 118 



