150 INDEX. 



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Educational work of the society 39 



Executive Committee, meetings of 13 



members of 12 



Experiment Stations and iiorticulture 80 



origin 80 



purpose 84 



work 84 



Experience with caterpillars 78 



Fertilization, immediate effects of 47 



insects and 116 



Field meeting, at Greene 19 



at Manchester and Camden 27 



Filberts 38 



Fruit, advantage of thinning 90 



Fruit, boys and 58 



Fungi, description of 24 



Gooseberries, currants and 71, 103 



Home, nature study in 93 



Horticulture, some new problems in 42 



In Memoriam — Secretary Elijah Cook 7 



Insects, one relation of to plants 114 



Introductory notice 5 



Kirkland, A. H., paper by 114 



Libbey, R. H., paper by • 103 



Meetings of the Society : 



Field meeting at Greene 19 



at Manchester and Camden 27 



Annual meeting and exhibition 27 



Winter meeting 93 



Members of the Society .141 



Membership, by-laws concerning 146 



Mulching, for strawberries 68 



Munson, W. M., papers by 23, 125 



president's address by : 33 



Nature study in the home 93 



Officers, by-laws concerning I47 



for 1899 12 



One relation of insects to plants 114 



Orcharding 22 



Orchards, cover crops for 84 



cultivating z>s. cropping 87 



Pear culture I37 



Pears for Northern Maine 61 



varieties of 63 



