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Acknowledging orders 153 
Addresses of societies 219-235 
Advertising 153 
American Ass'n of Nurserymen 39 
American Carnation Society 40 
American Cemetery Superintendent’s 
annual convention 35 
American DahUa Society 41 
American Flag 50 
American Fruit and Vegetable Growers’ 
Ass’n 27 
American Gladiolus Society 42 
American Peony Society 43 
American Rose Society 43 
American Seed Trade Ass’n 44 
American Sweet Pea Society 44 
Ants, destroying 167 
Apple worm 191 
April, work for, in greenhouses 95 
Army worms destroying grass 185 
Aster bug, to destroy 168 
August, work for, in greenhouses 100 
Automobiles for florists’ use 168 
Bacterized peat or Humogen 169 
Bag worm 189 
Balled shade and ornamental trees 169 
Banking, principles of 155 
Baskets, standard sizes for 171 
Basic slag 169 
Beans, weevilly 171 
Benches, bottoms for 171 
•Berries for birds 170 
Bill heads 157 
Biographical section 211-218 
Bird basin 171 
Bird houses 170 
Birds, berries for 170 
Birds, some useful 169 
Bookkeeping 149 
Bordeaux mixture 171 
Bride’s bouquet of white Dahlias 138 
Bouquet, corsage, of Cattleyas and 
Adiantum 144 
Bouquet, corsage, of Lily of the Valley 
for St. Valentine’s Day 141 
British horticulturists and prices ... 21 
British wholesale florists federation 
established 30 
Brown-tail moth 191 
Budding 172 
Bulb planter 172 
Bulbs and nursery stock in California. . i24 
Bulbs, imports of, from Holland 33 
Bulbs in cold storage 172 
Bulbs, planting 173 
Business section 149 
Cabbage butterfly / 188 
Calendar for the year’s operations in 
commercial greenhouses 91 
Calendars for 1918 5-16 
California bulb and nursery stock .■ 24 
California, gardening, in 122 
ChrysanthemumSociety of America. ... 46 
Canker worm on Apple foliage 191 
Canker worms on fruit trees 173 
Canning or bottling fruit 173 
Carnation stem rot 174 
Catalogs, seed and nursery 83 
Caustic alkalai wash 172 
Chorizema cordata splendens 101 
Coal, cubic contents of a ton of 172 
Coal situation 17 
Cockroaches 175 
Coddling moth trap 175 
Cold storage, bulbs in 172 
Colorado beetle 190 
Congressional distribution of seeds, 
bulbs and plants 21 
Copper sulphate 174 
Corn ear worm 191 
Costs, rise in 17 
Crops and the seasons 18 
Cucumbers 80 
Currant worm 191 
Cut worm moth trap 176 
Cut worms, exterminating 176 
Dahlia blooms, method of packing 135 
Dahlia, King of Autumn 133 
December, work for, in greenhouses .... 106 
De La Mare Printing and Publishing 
Co. changes name 25 
Diseases of plants 177 
Drainage 177 
Drying of fruits and vegetables 207 
Dynamiting soil 177 
Earwigs, combating 177 
Easter Sunday 166 
Eelworms 174-178 
Elm-leaf beetle 178 
Exporting and importing 154 
Express data 158 
Express transportation 17 
Farmers’ Non-Partisian League of 
North Dakota 24 
Fence posts, durability of 179 
Ferns, eradicating from pastures 179 
Fertilizer plant erected by Federal 
Government 29 
Fertilizers, amounts to use 179 
Fertilizers. (See also manures) 
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180 
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46 
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Fires, prevention of 
Flag, American, how to treat the 
Flies in house 
Florida, severe frost in 
Florists’ and nurserymens’ calendar . . . 
Florists’ Hail Ass’n of America 
Florists’ Telegraph Delivery 
