TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



PAOE. 



Bepobt op the Secretary : 



Utility, work and prospects of the Society 1 



Life membership 2 



Besults accomplished 2 



Correspondence, Library, &o 3 



Third Annual Exhibition 3 



List of Premiums offered, entries and awards — Apples 5 



Fears 8 



Grapes 9 



Plums, <&o 11 



Flowers 12 



Farm and Garden crops 14 



Statements out Cranberry CuLTTrRE 16 



Annual Meetinq 17 



Destrdctive Insects, — their habits, &c., Lecture by Prof. C. H. Fernald: 



Tent-caterpillar 17 



Forest-tree caterpillar 19 



Apple-tree borer 21 



Codling moth or apple worm 22 



Plum curculio 23 



Fall web-worm 24 



Currant worm, — Cabbage butterfly,— Onion fly 25 



Army worm, — Colorado potato beetle 26 



Relations of nature, and increase of noxious insects by operations of man . . 27 



Damages caused by insects 28 



Necessity for more thorough study and greater knowledge 29 



Proceedings of the Winter Meeting: 



Programme — Opening Exercises 32 



Address of welcome by Hon. Nelson Ham 34 



Annual Address of the President, Z. A. Gilbert 36 



Season of 1875 36 



Ravages of insects 37 



Annual Exhibition, — Catalogue of Fruits 38 



Becommendations 39 



Okcharding as a Business, by Alfred Smith 40 



Planting fruit trees 46 



Training 47 



Maine trees preferred,— young trees best 48 



Varieties 49 



Pruning 52 



Boot pruning 53 



Discussion of the subject , 54 



