REPORT 



TO THE 



State Board of Agriculture, 



FOR THE YEAR 1895. 



By GEORGE CRUICKSHANKS, of Fitchburg. 



The exhibitions of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society for 

 1895 have closed. The year has been one of advance in every- 

 thing pertaining to horticulture in fruit, flower, and vegetable. 

 The lectures delivered before this Society, in one of its halls, were 

 well attended. Those of this season's course were as follows : 



January 12. Daj'S with our Birds, by Mrs. Kate Trj'on, Cam- 

 bridge. 



January 19. Flower Pots and their Manufacture, b}' A. H. 

 Hews, North Cambridge. 



January 26. Fungous Diseases of Ornamental Plants, by Pro- 

 fessor Byron D. Halsted, New Brunswick, New Jersey. 



February 2. Hardy Plants and Shrubs and their Arrangement, 

 by J. Wilkinson Elliot, Pittsburg, Pa. 



February 9. Glass Houses, their Construction and Heating, by 

 Heury W. Gibbons, New York. 



February 16. Economic Entomology in Relation to Trees, 

 Shrubs, and Plants in Parks and Private Grounds, by E. B. 

 Southwick, New York. 



February 23. Experimental Evolution amongst Plants, by 

 Professor L. H. Bailey, Ithaca, New York. 



March 2. A Talk on Gardens, by David Hill Coolidge, Jr., 

 Boston. 



March 9. Budding and Grafting, by Jackson Dawson, Arnold 

 Arboretum, Jamaica Plain. 



