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MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Donations and bequest of books from Wil- 

 liam Gray, jun., 204. 

 Francis L. Lee, 204. 

 John Lewis Russell, 202. 

 others, 185, 188, 190. 

 Dracaena Baptistii, 413. 



Henderson!, 438. 

 Dracaenas, seedling, 430, 440. 

 Dudley, Paul, account of fruit trees, etc., in 



1726, 15. 

 Dufour, John James, 37. 



Echium grandiflorum, 237. 



Egg plant, Black Pekin, 352. 



Elms, Paddock, 373. 



Endicott, Gov., orchard and nursery, 12. 



Enkianthus quinqueflorus, 246. 



Erianthus Ravennae, 400. 



Erica baccans, 246. 



ventricosa superba, 241. 

 Estate, Montgomery House, purchased, 137, 

 165. 



in School Street purchased, 136, 149. 



sold, 137, 162. 



Eucharis Amazonica, 328, 354, 412. 

 Eugenia Malaccensis, 249. 

 Eulalia Japonica, 440. 

 Events contemporaneous with the formation 



of the Society, 63. 



Everett, Alexander H., address of, 108. 

 Evergreens, collection of, 348. 

 Exhibition day, change of, 216, 350, 353. 

 Exhibition, first, 216. 

 Exhibitions, 1829-1844, 213. 



1845-1864, 271. 



1865-1878, 346. 



earliest and latest compared, 459. 



expense of, 132. 



Instituted, 66. 



instructiveness of, 467. 



origin of, 216. 



three periods, 213. 



Expenditures of the Society, 131, 135. 

 Experimental garden, 96. 



seeds for, 98. 



vegetables and flowers from, 99. 



Faneuil, Andrew, garden and hothouse, 18. 

 Ferns, collections of, 326, 381, 395, 419, 429. 



filmy, 413. 



and lycopods, 318, 327, 331. 



native, 326, 381, 402, 419. 

 Fertility of the virgin soil, 4. 

 Fertilizers, experiments with, 262, 276. 

 Ficus dealbata, 365. 



elastica, 220, 235, 252, 398. 

 Finances of the Society, 119. 

 Fire at rooms in Cornhill, 145. 



First meeting to form a horticultural society, 



58. 



Fish used as a fertilizer, 2, 7. 

 Flowers, baskets of, 323, 339, 351, 366, 387. 



collections of, 268. 



exhibited in 1830, 225. 



exhibited in 1848, 286. 



hybrid, 277, 282, 350, 352, 360, 362, 364, 

 374, 445. 



improvement in, 268, 311, 343, 459, 465. 



in Massachusetts, 1663-71, 9. 



seedling, 218, 247, 268, 306, 311, 344, 362, 



365, 388, 466. 

 Floy, Michael, 41. 

 Forest trees, large, 17. 

 Formal proposal of a horticultural society, 



56. 

 Formation of other societies, 454. 



of the Society well timed, etc., 457. 

 Founders of the Society, 59, 500. 

 Fruit, abundant crop of, 329. 

 In Virginia, 21. 



from Angers, France, 295. 



from Bremen, 313. 



from California, 362, 378. 



from Lake Champlain Valley, 295. 



from Nova Scotia, 405, 414, 431. 



culture and wine making in Maryland, 

 21. 



house, Professor Nyce's, 354. 



supply of, 421, 464. 

 Fruit trees destroyed by frost, 1737, 28. 



in Massachusetts, 1663-71, 8. 



in 1726, 16, 17. 



Fruits at annual exhibition, 1834, 234. 

 1848, 286. 



brought by settlers in Missouri, 36. 



and flowers, August 1, 1829, 217. 



forced, 280, 335, 338. 



importation of new varieties of, 42, 44, 

 266. 



in California, introduction of, 39. 



in Illinois, introduction of, 36. 



in Indiana, introduction of, 36. 



in Kentucky, introduction of, 36. 



in Louisiana, introduction of, 38. 



in Mississippi, 38. 



in Ohio, introduction of, 36. 



large collections of, 285, 305, 333, 393. 



native, in 1795, 26. 

 paintings of, 142. 



new, in 1829, 221. 



new native, 267. 



nomenclature of, 267. 



seedling, 247, 303, 389, 341, 431, 445, 446, 

 448. 



selections of, 43, 231, 341, 448. 



testing of, 282, 296. 



