540 



MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Heusler, George, 31. 



Holcus saccharatus, 310. 



Hollyhocks, double, 227, 317, 328. 

 Horticulture as a fine art, 468. 



the perfection of agriculture, 473. 

 Hosack, Dr. David, 41. 

 Hothouse, first, in New England, 18. 

 Hovey, President Charles M., 169. 



addresses of, 171, 174, 182. 

 Hoya carnosa, 228, 235. 

 Hunnewell, H. H., estate of, 315, 408. 

 Hyacinths, 243, 247. 

 Hybridizing, experiments in, 1739, 25. 

 Hydrangea Thomas Hogg, 419. 



paniculata grandiflora, 395. 



Imatophyllum miniatum, 354, 403. 

 Improvement in gardens, 311, 456, 468. 

 Income from admissions and assessments, 

 120. 



from investments, 130. 



from Mount Auburn, 129. 



from stores and halls, 130. 



of the Society, 120. 

 Incorporation of the Society, 63, 475. 

 Indians, agriculture of the, 1, 7, 10. 



agriculture of the Six Nations, 31. 



agriculture of the Southern, 28. 



orchards of the, 11, 23, 28, 31. 



planting of, in Boston, 13. 

 Information diffused by the Society, 469. 

 Inscriptions for corner stones, 151, 172. 

 Insects, injurious, 9, 10, 123, 211, 256,367, 401, 



424. 

 Institution for the education of gardeners, 



103. 



Intermixture of corn noticed in 1726, 17. 

 Investments of funds, 130. 

 Iresine Herbstii, 350. 



Lindeni, 362. 

 Iris Kaempferi, 353, 439. 



Jackson, John, collection of plants, 1777, 



26. 



" Johnny Appleseed," 38. 

 Josselyn, John, Voyages and Rarities, 8. 



Kenrick, John, nursery established, 33. 

 Kenrick, John A., 34i 

 Kenrick, William, nursery established, 34. 

 Kirtland, Dr. Jared P., 38. 

 Knight, Thomas Andrew, new fruits from, 

 49. 



Lagerstrcemia Indica, 217, 258, 280. 

 Landreth, David, seed and nursery establish- 

 ment , 34. 

 Landscape gardening, 468. 



Lapageria rosea, 328, 356. 



Latania Borbonica, 328, 362, 391. 



Laurens, Henry, 29. 



Law for protection of orchards and gardens, 



13. 



Lettuces, new, 379. 

 Librarians, 203. 

 Library, 184. 



catalogues of, 190, 202. 



cost of, 133. 



decline of interest in, 191. 



expenditures for, 189, 192, 193, 194, 195, 

 196, 198, 199, 201. 



first action to gather, 185. 



first purchase of books for, 187. 



gifts of books for, 185, 188, 190, 202, 204. 



increase of interest in, 199, 201. 



number of books in, 190, 203. 



reading room opened, 199. 



regulations for, 190, 200. 



room incommodious, 198. 



valuable books in, 205. 

 Lichens, collection of, 319. 

 Lilies, Japan, 254. 



Japan, hardy, 283. 



new species shown, 356, 366, 419, 440. 



seedling Japan, 277. 

 Lilium auratum, 332, 366, 439. 



candidum, fine, 350. 



lancifolium album, 254. 



Parkmanni, 362, 424. 



superbum, 227, 251, 356. 

 Lily, new hybrid, Hoveyi, 350. 

 Lily of the valley, forced, 375. 

 Livingston, Chancellor, grounds of, 43. 

 Livingston, manor of, 43. 

 Logan, James, 27. 

 Longworth, Nicholas, 37. 

 Lonicera aureo-reticulata, 337. 

 Lowell, John, 33, 59. 



new fruits introduced by, 



on the progress of horticulture, 54, 472. 

 Lunt, Hon. George, dedication address, 155. 

 Lychnis angustifolia plena, 263. 

 Lycopods, 318, 322, 326, 327. 

 Lygodium palmatum, 326. 



scandcns, 394. 

 Lyman, Theodore, grounds of, 50. 



Magnolia cor data, 232. 



purpurea, 232. 



Maize, variegated Japan, 349. 

 Manning, Robert, pomological garden, 48. 

 Maranta Massangeana, 440. 



zebrina, 228, 323. 

 Market gardens, deficiency in, 52. 

 Markets, improvement in, 470. 

 Marshall, Humphry, botanic garden of, 26. 



