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MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Pear, Duchesse d'Angouleme, 224, 232, 239. 

 largest, 338. 



Duchesse de Bordeaux, 377. 



Eastern Belle, 368. 



Elizabeth, 258. 



Flemish Beauty, 252, 302. 

 blighted, 291. 



Frederick Clapp, 384. 



Goodale, 347. 



Harris, 383. 



Ho well, 285. 



Lawrence, 261. 



Louise Bonne of Jersey, 241. 



Madame Henri Desportes, 406. 



Mount Vernon, 325. 



Onondaga, 281. 



Petre, original tree of, 24. 



Rostiezer, 241. 



Seckel, 327. 



history of, 460. 

 sent to London, 41. 



Sheldon, 297. 



Souvenir du Congres, 397. 



Striped St. Germain, 250. 



Sugar, 4. 



Tyson, 258. 



Vicar of Winkfield, 250. 



White Doyenne or St. Michael, 225, 250, 

 289, 302. 



Winter Nells, 241. 



blight, first appearance of, 36. 



orchard of Santa Clara College, 39. 

 Pear tree, Anthony Thacher, 3. 



Governor Endicott, 11. 



Governor Prince, 3. 



Governor Stuyvesant, 20. 



Ockletree, 37. 

 Pear trees, ancient, 15, 44. 



large, at Detroit, 22. 



ancient, at Kaskaskia, etc., 22. 



in pots, 234, 250. 

 Pears, ancient varieties, 4. 



best Summer, 377. 



collections of, 234, 240, 244, 274, 285, 298, 

 302, 304, 305, 317, 324, 333, 393. 



decay of the old, 49. 



fine Bartlett, 324, 332, 396, 431. 



fine Beurre Bosc, 422. 



fine Beurre Diel, 250, 302, 317. 



fine Duchesse d'Angouleme, 250,297,362, 

 432. 



fine, from Nabant, 280, 289, 297. 



fine Souvenir du Congres, 431. 



fine specimens, 250, 302, 329, 336, 368, 389, 

 397, 414, 422, 431. 



from California, 362, 378. 



from Norfolk, 362, 383. 



from walls, etc., 277, 291. 



Pears introduced by the Huguenots, 20. 



large Seckel, 309, 406. 



large Sheldon, 332, 368. 



largest Winter Nelis, 432. 



lists of premium, 294, 396. 



most popular, 377. 



native, 460, 461. 



new in 1830, 224. 



new in 1835, 239. 



new in 1866, 352. 



new varieties, collections of, 378, 384. 



Orange, 406. 



seedling, 248, 297, 352, 368, 384, 389, 393, 

 406. 



size of, 463. 



Peirce, Joshua and Samuel, 26. 

 Pelargonium exhibitions, 243, 411, 417. 

 Pelargoniums, prize, 1875, 411. 

 Penn, William, gardening in Pennsylvania, 



23. 

 Perkins, Samuel G., new fruits introduced 



by, 49. 



Peters, Judge, garden of, 42. 

 Phaius grandifolius, 420. 

 Phlox Drummondi, 242. 

 Phloxes, seedling, 247, 261, 313, 344, 388, 429 

 Phormium Colensoi var., 395, 404, 440. 



tenax var., 375, 413, 420. 

 Photographs of members, 201 

 Phyllotsenium Lindeni, 429. 

 Pilgrims, report of explorers sent out by 



the, 1. 



Pineapple, Queen, 377. 

 Pineapples, 242, 247, 348. 

 Pines, cones of California species, 356. 

 Pioneers of fruit culture in the West, 38. 

 Plants, Australian, in 1827, 28. 



collection of new and choice exotic, 329. 



experimental, 259, 262, 285. 



fine collection of, 1877, 428. 



from the Cape of Good Hope 356. 



increase of greenhouse, 228, 231. 



herbaceous, 337, 419. 



native, 247, 248, 301, 361, 366, 386, 428. 



native, interest in, 122, 247, 351, 354, 381, 

 446, 465. 



new, introduced, 446. 



prize, 1862, 331, 332. 1872, 381, 382. 



1863, 335, 336. 1873, 387, 395. 



1864, 339. 1874, 402, 404. 



1865, 348. 1875, 411, 413. 



1867, 354. 1876, 417, 418, 



1868, 355. 420, 421. 



1869, 361. 1877, 427, 429. 



1870, 365, 366, 367. 1878, 438, 439, 

 1871, 375. 440. 



rare aquatic, 306. 



at rhododendron show, 391. 



