CONTENTS. 



NEW YORK 



BOTANiCAL 



GARDEN 



GENERAL ARTICLES. 

 3 The Agricultural Interest 



129 

 417 



The Condition of the Agricultural Labourer 



Shelter as a Means of Improving Estates 



Burning on Railway Banks 



Profitable Employment of Agricultural Machinery 



Shelter in Relation to Live Stock 



Tenure of Land 



■Condition of the Rural Labourer 



Hippophagy — Shall we Eat our Horses? 



Past, Present, and Future of Scottish Agriculture 



Grain- Producing States of America 



Amateur Farming a Hundred Years Ago ... il 



Practical View of the Irish Land Question 125, 32 



Reclamation and Improvement of Land 



THE LANDED PROPRIETORS OF GREAT BRITAIN. 



Xo. I. Tlie Duke of Roxburghe 



THE COUNTRY HOUSE. 



26, 139 Designs for Mansions, Villages, and Cottages 

 THE FARM. 



Sawing off the Horns of Cattle 



424 

 426 



Choice of a Site for Buildinc 



Meadows and Haymaking 



Filling-up Blanks in Root Crops 



Finger-and-Toe in the Turnip Crop 



Sport in Swede Turnips 



Adulteration of Seeds 

 Agricultural Weights and Measures 

 Price of Shorthorned Bulls 

 Portraits of Domesticated Cattle — 



1. " Mistleto," a Shorthorned Cow 



2. " Bolivar," a Shorthorned Bull 

 Grasses for Permanent Pasture Lands — 



1. Festuca pratensis — Meadow Fescue .. 



2. Festuca elatior— Tall Fescue 



3. Cynosums cristatus— Crested Dogstail 



4. Festuca loliacea-Spiked Fescue-Grass 



The Herd wick Breed of Sheep 



High-bred Stock in Canada 



The Abyssinian Tube Well 



Farm-yard Manure and its Management .. 



Agricultural Statistics 



Harvesting Grain Crops 



Rape as a Substitute for the Turnip Crop .. 



- Warning Words on Weeds 



Small Matters 



Food of the Town-Fed Cow 



Securing and Thrashing of Corn 



Water and t!)e Want of it 



Papers from Farmer John 



144 



... 40 

 ... 42 

 45. 564 

 ... 49 



436 



332 



New Farm Buildings at Kinnetdes 

 Rustic Farm-yard Structui-es 

 Notes on Farm Engineering 



Landlords and Tenants 



Shepherd's Kalendar 



Artificial Han-esting 



Autumn Culture of the Soil _ -■. 



Cattle Feeding Stuffs " ••■ ; 



New Meat Market at Smithfield 



Whitfield Farm 



Tiptree Hall Farm 



Farm Labourers in Scotland 



Gibb's Plan for Drying Corn and Hay 



Manuring for Green Crops 



Storing of Root Crops 



Meat-Making 



Norfolk Farming 



Deficiency of Plants in Spring-sown Grass Seeds 



Railway Cattle Traffic in America 



How the Americans deal with Cattle Disease 

 Protection against Fraudulent Manures ... 



Sewage Question 



Wheat Cultivation 



Agricultural Education 



Pleuro-pneumonia in Cattle 



Artificial Manures 



Flax Culture 



Winter Keep for Sheep 



Han-est of 1868 



Improvement of Shap P'ell 



FARM ARCHITECTURE & ENGINEERING. 



9 Manure Tanks 



2 Noie-T on Cottages and Cottage Plans ... ; 

 Ventilators for Corn Stacks 



230 

 250 



251 



336 

 333 



449 

 346 

 346 

 347 

 349 

 352 

 428 



430 

 434 

 438 

 448 

 453 

 454 

 455 

 457 

 531 

 538 

 540 

 543 

 547 

 548 

 549 



Grass Lawns and Croquet Grounds 



Peas and their Pests ... 



A Note regarding Garden Depredators 



The Aby.ssinian Jibara 



Cattleya Dowiana 



Ancylog\ne longifolia 



Castle Kennedy Fig ... 



Cypripedium macranthon 



Cypripedium calceolus 



Cypripedium purpuratum 



Cypripedium caricinum 



Cypripedium insigne 



Grape Growing for Profit 



Watering Out-door Plants 



Cemetery Gardening 



156, 



THE 



87. 



254 

 GARDEN. 



Old Plants that are now undeservedly neglected 



Insects in Prematurely Fallen Fruit 



Designing Flower Beds 



Celery Culture in America 



Autumn Sowing in the Kitchen Garden 



Garden Weeds 



Gardening at Sea-Side Watering Places 



Out-door Preservation of Tender Plants in Winter 



Growth of Yuccas in the North ^ ... _ 



Preservation of Cabbages from Caterpillars 



Fruit-Keeping in Winter 



Root-Keeping in Winter 



Is the Almond identical with the Peach? 



Adulteration of Seeds 



Effects of Manure on Herbage 



173 



274 



269 



... 270 



163 



167 



259 



GARDEN ARCHITECTURE. 



Rustic Fences and Entrance Gates 92 Window and Balcony Gardens and Rustic Bridges 



Shades for Garden Seats 92,569 Designs for a Garden Kiosk 



TOOLS AND IMPLEMENTS FOR THE COUNTRY HOUSE. 



Adze 272 Bark Scaler 



Anemometer 273 Baskets ... 



Asparagus Knife 274 Blanchmg Pots ■■■ 



.■\veruncator 275 Boitte-a-Houppe 



Axe 275 Brooms 



295 

 266 

 360 



364 

 366 

 459 

 461 

 467 

 407 

 557 

 559 

 505 

 56s 

 567 



4D4 

 569 



277 

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 372 

 373 

 373 



