GENERAL INDEX. 



Pear Stocks, on niisinc 33!. 

 Persimmon, Japfiu, 449. 

 Peruv ail b:irk, '^K). 

 Peruvian paradise, 143. 

 PEAR TRKES ; 



Roor-pruned, 4-'). 



Large Native-, 47. 



Management of. 07. 



List fit tor growing on single 

 worked quince. 69. 



List fit lor growing on double 



worked quince, 70. 

 on quince and asli stocks, 182, 381,522 



Memoranda on, 169. 



Select list for the north, 109. 



Select list of, 4.35. 



Remarks on twenty-five, 173. 



on some new, 396. 



Chinese, 191. 



Analysis of the ash of. 300. 



Special manure for, 403. 



P'reiich mode of summer pruning 

 dwarf, 551. 

 Pears, extinction of the old, 423. 

 Peas, summer crons of, 149. 



CedonuUi, 464. 



Queen of Dwarf, 464 



Pelargonium lucia-rosea, 2>0. 

 Perkins, i!?. G., death of, 51. 

 Petunia and its culture, 11 1. 

 Phenomenon, A slrange, 344. 

 Philadelphia collection of birds, 264. 

 Phlox, Van Houlte's, 72. 

 Phloxes, Van Iloutte's new, 479. 

 Physiological discoveries of Erenbergli, 



187. 

 Physiology, vegetable, 268. 

 Pig-sty, cheap flooring for a, 527. 

 Pine tribe, culture of the, 93- 

 Pines for ornamental trees, 49.3. 

 Pinus pinaster, 563. 



sylvestris, or Scotch pine, 564. 



Pits for green-house plants. 383. 

 Plant growers, A hint to, 167. 

 Planting by the sea-side, 562. 



Plants in rooms, best mode of growing, 



402. 

 Plants new or rare, 358. 

 Plumbago capensis, 282. 

 PLUMS : 



Black-knot in, 532. 



Bleecker's Scarlet, 478. 



Coe's Golden Drop, 548. 



Demontfort, 478. 



Dennison's Superb, 478. 



Diamond, 546. 



Gen. Hand, 4.36. 



Ida Green Gage, 178, 291. 



Imperial de Milan, 478. 



Isabella, 478. 



Jefferson, 408,475,478. 



Mammelonue, 478. 



Peach plum, 455, 473. 



Purple Favorite, 478. 



Quetsche, St. Mariyns, 478. 



Red Gage, 478. 



Reine Claude de Bavay, 478. 



Rivers Early Favorite, 479. 



Prolific, 479. 



Select Ust of, 435. 



for the north, 409. 



Smith's Orleans. 546. 

 Yellow Magnum Bonum, 479. 



Poivrea coccinea, 281. 

 Pomological notes, 109, 454, 543. 



reform, 175. 



notes from Rhode -Island, 241. 



society at New-Haven, 343- 



Pomology, Rules of American, 273, 292, 



344, 436, 480, 5.30- 



in Philadelphia, 287. 



Poplar, The Black Italian, 563. 

 Potato blight, 51. 



Earthing up the. 285. 



Potato problem, 564. 



Poultry yard. The mysteries of the, 372. 



Primrose, Large-podded Evening, 73. 



Privet, 511. 



Prizes for new frui's, 99. 



Profits of fruit culture, 305. 



Propagation by cuttings, 455. 567. 



of plants, 190. 



Pruning, 544. 

 Pruning, Root, 476. 

 Prunus spinosa pleno, 512. 

 Pulque, a Mexican drink, 520. 

 Queries t'rom the west, 334. 

 QUINCES : 



Cleaning the seed, 435. 



Marmalade of, 528. 



Mode of propagating, 4.34. 



on the seacoast, 100. 



Secret of growing, 6.3. 

 Quince tree, salt for the, 50. 

 Rain in New-England, 49. 

 Raspberry, The large-fruited Monthly, 



236, 479. 

 Raspberries, Red Antwerp, 573. 

 Raspberry. Queries on the, 384. 



Cushing, 2S7. 



Prize lor a new. 99. 



Notes on, 265, .387. 



REVIEWS : 



Agricultural Botany, 137. 



Buisl's Kitchen Gardener, 475. 



Cincinnati Strawberry Report, 517. 



Culture of the Grape, 1.36. 



Dictionary of Modern Gardening, 

 40. 



Discourse of Mr. Beecher in Brook- 

 lyn, .375. 



Flowers Personified, 428. 



Gray's Manual of Botany, 472. 



Hints to Young Arcliitects, &c.,37. 



Illustrations of Medical Botany, 42. 



Liebig's Chemistry, 1.38. 



Silliman's Journal, 183. 



The Rose, Its Culture and Classifi- 

 cation, 333. 



Transactions of the New- York 

 Agricultural Society, 87. 



Transactions of the Mass Horticul- 

 tural Society, part I, 278. 



Washington's Letters on Agricul- 

 ture, 237. 

 Rhubarb poisonous, 1-35. 



Cultivation of, 566. 



Tartine, 42. 



Rhus cotinus, 513. 

 Ribes aureum,510. 

 Robinia hispida, 51 1. 

 Root cutting, annual, 501. 



grafting, 434. 



ROSE.S : 



Aimee Vibert, 533. 



Cloth of Gold, .35, 47. 



Culture of climbing, 367. 



Ernestine de Barente, 344. 



Favorhes of an amateur, 149 



Lamarque, 384. 



Marquesite d'Anjou, 480. 



Persian Yellow, 532 



Protection offender, 194. 



Replanting, 438. 



Review of Parsons' Book on, 333. 



Seedlings for slocks, 487. 



which are roses, 434. 

 Rose bugs and a philosoph'-r, 98. 

 Rosebug, prevention of the attacks of. 



570. 

 Rose slugs, 99, 101. 

 Rules oi American Pomology, 273. 292, 



S41. 4.36, 480,530. 

 Running out of fruit trees, 109. 

 Rural church, design tor, 433 

 Sallow, The Norfolk Black, 563. 

 Salvia patens, 488. 

 .Sap, rise and fall of, 180. 



.'»chool-liouses. a chapter on, 393 



.Sea-coast culture, 100. 



Seakale, culture of the. 276, 527. 



Sea-side planting, 337. 



.Season, The, '.ii'-i. 



Sea-weed, 49. 



Sea-weed, giant, 141. 



Sednm, Sieboldl's, 73, 289. 



Seeds, on saving, 235. 



Shade trees, planting of, 201. 



Shakespeare's house, 95. 



Shaw, William, death of, 290. 



Shellac for wounds in trees, 533. 



Siberian pear tree, 510. 



.Skirving's nursery, 336. 



Sloe, Double, 512. 



Snowball, the Great Clustered, S.'ig. 



Snowdrop, or Silver-bell tree, 513. 



Soups, the science of, 118. 



Sourkrout. how to make. 95. 



Southern fruit, notes on, 448. 



Spiraea hypericifolia, 510. 



Spring, progress of, 572. 



Spruce, The Norway, for hedges, 128.^ 



Stephanotis floribunda, 131, 232. 



St. Peter's Wreath, 510. 



STRAWBERRIES: 



Cincinnati report on, 517. 



How to plant, 50, 133. 



Notes on, 242. 



Prince's, 149, 192, 240, 292, 570. 



Remarks, 493. 



Remarks on the New Ohio, 177. j 

 STRAWBERRIE.S— 7ar(eaes : 



Aberdeen Beehive, 534, 574. 



Black Prince, 101. 



Burr's .Seedlings, 98. 



Burr's Old Seedling, 98. 



Columbus, 98. 



Late Prolific, 98. 



New Pine, 93. 



Ohio Mammoth, 98.' 



Profusion, 98. 



Scarlet Melting, 98. 



Scioto, 93. 



Hovey's Seedling, 352. 



.Stoddard's Seedling, 101. 

 Strawberry, prize for a new, 99. 



blossoms, (Hovey's Seedling,) 49, 



101. 



question, notes on, by Longworth, 



22, 146. 

 Strawberry challenge accepted, 570, 

 Sucker stocks, 544. 

 Sweet scented .shrub, 511. 

 Syringa, The, 511. 



persica, 510. 



Syringes for green-houses, 556. 

 Tea, Green, 234. 



plant in India, 144. 



Tecoma jasminoides, 282. 



Large flowered, 503. 



Telegriph^ magnetic, 189. 

 Thibaudia pulcherrima, 362. 

 Thorns, raising from seed, 286. 

 Tides in the air, 185. 



Transactions of the Massachusetts Hor- 

 ticultural Society, No. 1, 273. 

 Transplanting, an experiment in, 231. 



Successful, 53. 



trees, 275. 



Tree, Box. .30. 



Trees, rapid growing, 102. 



in grass grounds, 1.30. 



Treatment of. in cold latitudes, 146. 



Hints on transplanting, 217. 



worth planting, 269. 



To proiect, from liares and rabitg, 



361. 



To promote the growth, 521. 



for Die sea-coa,st, 533. 



Cure for bark bound, 533. 



wounds, 533. 



Trenched soil, 544 



