CONTENTS. 



Page 

 Prefatory Note, 3 



BnsiNESS Meeting, January 2, 1897 ; Address of President Appleton, pp. 

 5-10; Appropriations for 1897, 10; Addition to the Act Incorporating 

 the Society, 10, 11; Appointment of Treasurer and Secretary, 11; 

 Memorial of Samuel G. Damon, 11 ; Vote of thanks to the President, 

 12; Motion concerning Peach Yellows negatived, 12; Letter from 

 Boston Mycological Club read, 12 ; Two members elected, 12 ; Pro- 

 gramme of Lectures and Discussions announced, 12 



Meeting for Lecture and Discussion, January 9; Tropical Horticul- 

 ture, with Illustrations of the Principal Economic Plants of Hot Cli- 

 mates, by Prof. George Lincoln Goodale, 12-19 



Meeting for Lecture and Discussion, January 16 ; The Structure and 



Classification of Mushrooms, by Hollis Webster, 20-28 



Meeting for Lecture and Discussion, January 23; The Chrysanthe- 

 mum : Its Past, Present, and Future, by Edmund M. Wood, pp. 28-42 ; 

 Discussion, 42, 43 



Meeting for Lecture and Discussion, January 30; Plant Beauty, by 



Henry T. Bailey, 43-4ri 



Meeting for Lecture and Discussion, February 13; The Sweet Pea, 

 the Flower for Everybody, by Rev. W. T. Hutchins, pp. 46-60; 

 Discussion, 60-64 



Meeting for Lecture and Discussion, February 20; Some Phases of 



Market Gardening, by T. Greiner, pp. 64^73 ; Discussion, . . . 73-77 



Meeting for Lecture and Discussion, February 27 ; Good Food from 



the Garden, by Miss Anna Barrows, pp. 77-86 ; Discussion, . . .87, 88 



Meeting for Lecture and Discussion, March 13; Horticulture in 



Canada, by Prof. William Saunders, 88-106 



Meeting for Lecture and Discussion, March 20; Soils and Potting, 



by T. D. Hatfield, pp., 107-115; Discussion, 115, 116 



Meeting for Lecture and Discussion, March 27 ; The Spread of Plant 

 Diseases : A Consideration of Some of the Ways in which Parasitic 

 Organisms are disseminated, by Dr. Erwin F. Smith, . . . 117-133 



