11 CONTENTS. 



PAGE. 



Report of Committee on Friits, pp. 265-267; Prizes and Gratuities 



awarded 2G8-285 



Report of Committee on Vegetables, pp. 28G-290; Prizes and Gratuities 



awarded 291-306 



Report of Committee on Gardens; Introduction, pp. 307, 308; Francis 

 Brown Hayes's residence, 308-315; Hardy Rhododendrons, 309, 310; 

 Half-Hardy Eliododendrons, 310, 311 ; Ornamental Evergreens, 311-315; 

 William C. Strong's estate, 315-318; Nathaniel T. Kidder's estate, 318- 

 320; George B. Andrews's Vineyard, 320-328; Plum Orchard, 328-330; 

 Chrysanthemums, 330; N. T. Kidder's House, 330, 331 ; Walter Hunne- 

 well's House, 331-333; Waban Rose Conservatories, 333, 334; William 

 Nicholson's Conservatories, 334, 335; Bussey Institution, 335, 336; 

 Awards 330,337 



Report of Committee on School Gardens and Children's Herbariums, 

 pp. 338-341 ; George Putnam School Garden, 341-343; Robert G. Shaw 

 School Garden, 343, 344; Prizes and Gratuities awarded .... .344-347 



REPORT OF Committee of Arrangements 348,349 



Report to the State Board of Agriculture 350-353 



Report of the Committee on Iaege, Old, or Otherwise Interesting 



Trees 3.54, 355 



Report of Committee on the Library, pp. 356, 357; Library Acces- 

 sions; Prefatory Note, 358; Horticulture, 358-360 ; Horticultural So- 

 cieties, 3C0-3C6; Flowers and Ornamental Plants, 366-368; Floral 

 Societies, 369; Fruits, 369-371; Fruit Growers' Societies, 371, 372; 

 Vegetables, 372; Landscape Gardening and Parks, 372, 373; Cemeteries, 

 374; Roads, 374; Trees, 374, .375; Forestry, 376; Agriculture, 376-380; 

 Agricultural Societies, Boards, etc., 380-395; Insects, Diseases, etc., 

 395-397; General Botany, 397-400 ; Economic and Medical Botany, 400; 

 Territorial Botany, 401-404; Botanical Monographs, 404; Physiological 

 Botany, 4('4, 405; Cryptogamic Botany, 406; Botanical Societies, 406, 

 407; Botanic Gardens, 407, 408; Natural History Societies, 408, 409: 

 Miscellaneous, 409-413; Periodicals purchased, 414; Periodicals re- 

 ceived in Exchange 414, 415 



Report of Secretary and Librarian 416-418 



Report of Treasurer 419-423 



Report of the Finance Committee 421 



Mount Auburn Cemetery 424, 425 



Officers and Standing Committees 426-428 



Members of the Society; Life, pp. 429-435; Annual, 436-439; Honorary, 



440; Corresponding 441-443 



Extract from the Constitution and By-Laws 439 



