IV 



GENERAL INDEX. 



Celery, 205, 300 



Cemeteries, public, 9, 139 I 



Oereus, 71 [ 



night blooming, 1-1 1 ! 



Oestrum aurautiacum 45 



Charcoal, uses of, 453, 55(i 



Chartreaux collection of fruits, 554 



CHERRIES: 



Early Richmond, 146 ' 



Elizabeth, 140 . 



Kentish, 146 



Swedish, 46 I 



Vail 'a August Duke, 264, 355; 



CHERRY TREES: 



Bark bound, 12, 18. 139, 161 



Bursting the bark of,- . . . . 265, 355 



III Illinois, 369 



Coal ashes for, 574 



L. F. Allen's culture of, 39 i 



Mahaleb, stock for, 482 1 



Peeling, 112 



Stocks, 55 ' 



China pink, double, 421 



Chinese winter flowers, 42 j 



Chorozeraas, 70 



Chrysanthemums in China, 187 I 



Churches, rural, 120, 231 



Cinerarias, 70 



Cineraria, culture of, 415 ! 



new varieties of, 415 



Circulation of the sap, . . • • 482 '• 



Clarkea, 420 



Clerodendrum speoosissimum, 392 



Climate and polarity, 534 , 



Climbing plants, 568 



supports for, 246 j 



Cobea scandens, . . 559 ! 



Coal cinders for pear trees, 547 



Cockneyism in the country. .... 105, 229 

 Collinson, Peter, his letters to Bar- 

 tram, 330 



Colliusia tinctoria, 363 



Columnea crassifolia, 392 



Commelinas 511 



Compost heaps, 188 



Composts, 247 



Combretum macrophyllum, ... 45 



Congress of Fruit-growers.. .226, 314, 485 



Report of, 340, 



414, 433, 453 



Convention of fruits, 345, 456 



Convention, national, of fruit-grow- 

 ers, 138, 231 



Convention, North American Pomo- 



logical, 191 



Conventions, pomological, 46, 126 



Convolvulus tricolor, 420 



Coreopsis tinctoria, 421 



Corn, Darling's Sweet, 4*6 



Cottage furniture 392 



Country place, how to lay it out, .... 393 



villages, improvement of, 537 



Covering the soil, 53 



Cranberry, 439 



Crassula, 71 



Cream Hill vindicated, 573 



Critique on Hon. for July, 139 



for August, 143 



for September, 229 



for October 268 



1 for November, 310 



for December, 352 



for January 410 



for February, 456 



for March, 495 



forApril 555 



Critic criticised, 458, 534, 557 



Cucumbers, 390 



Culinary vegetables, 390 



Curculio, paving to prevent, 62, 128, 



143, 244, 216 



new remedy for. 164, 269, 563, 574 



prevention of, 242. 301, 314, 406, 452 



Currants, .' 146 



Cuttings, , , 100 



Cypress, New Weeping, 97 



Cypress, Funcbral, 97 



D 



Dahlias, 100, 536 



culture of, 207 



propagation of, 52-5 



Dearborn, H. A. S., correspondence 



with Mass. Hort. Society, 247 



Delphiniums, 421 



Dianthus chinensis, 121 



Dickens, Charles, notice of, 555 



Dogwood, 527 



Drainage, effects of, 334, 414 



Drying plants, 399 



Duulap's nursery, 385 



Dwarf fruit trees, 487 



Dwarfing, 190 



Dwarfs, stocks for, 197 



E 



Elms, 292 



English parks, 213,315 



Epacris, 70 



Errata, 574 



Epiphyllum, 71 



Erica, 70 



Eryssimum peroflskianum, 420 



Escholtzia, 420 



Evergreen ivy, 252, 353 



Evergreens,. 54, 198 



hardiness of, 574 



moving large, 239 



transplanting 294 



Exotics, summer blooming, 145 



culture of, 392 



Experimental g.irdeus, 443 



Experiments in horticulture, 406 



F 



Fairs and shows, 143 



Fall of leaves, 336 



Feeding trees, 399 



Fendler's botanical collection, 54 



Fires, extinguishment of, 333 



Fire-blight, 529 



Flower gardens, arrangement of, . . 41 



thougnts on, • 169, 269 



Flowers, Chinese winter, 42 



for the million, 419, 406 



to preserve fresh, 399 



to dry specimens, 571 



Flower pots, draining, JJ98 



Floy's nursery, 484 



Foliage, diseased and healthy, 342 



unhealthy, case of, 46 



Forcing bulbs, 236 



French nurseries 462 



Frosted plants, 478 



Fruit culture at the south, 493 



Fruit culture in Illinois, 368, 456 



Fruit garden, a jog in, 260 



Fruit gardens near Paris, 549 



hints for, 182 



Fruit, gathering and storing, 182 



Fruits, foreign market, notes on, .... 40 



for market, 247 



for winter use, 351 



in convention, 345 



in Mississippi 388 



in South Carolina, 275, 356 



best for Columbus, Ohio, 247 



best for general cultivation, . . . 227 



list of rejected, 223 



new seedling, 239 



notes on, 386 



selection of northern, 487 



that begin to bear early, .... 439 



western, 243 



Fruit rooms, 100 



Fruit packing, 151 



Fruit preserver, 143 



Fruit trees, compost for, 198 



diseased 52 



low heading of, 129 



management of, 64, 145 



straw on 19 



Fruit trees, training, 553 



Fuchsias, new, 41 



Fuchsia serratifolia, 427 



spectabilis, 42J 



G 



Gardeners in green-houses, 290 



Gardenia flonda fortuneana, 45 



Garden of the London Hort Society, 



visit to, 14, 140 



Gardens of Lisbon, 136 



Gardens, large or small, 393 



public, 9 



German greens, 98 



Geraniums, 55, 71 



in windows, 304 



scarlet, • 235 



Gilia capitala and tricolor, 420 



Gladiolus, culture of, 464 



floribundus, 465 



gandavensis, 466 



Glass, sUined, 193 



Gloxinia teuchlerii, 4> 



Gold mines of Ohio, 149 



Gomphrena, 421 



Gooseberries, salt hay for, 114 



mulching, 149 



Gooseberry, cluster, 146 



on the yellow flowering cur- 

 rant, 65, 144 



Gordonias, 142 



Goutier's nursery, 464 



Graft budding, .'..... 52 



Grafting, 109, 190 



Grafting dioecious trees, 341 



Grafting old apple orchards, 437 



Grafts on cuttings, 344 



transmission by mail, 51 



GRAPES: 



Arbors, 392 



Bunches, size of, 16 



Blussard Noir, 15 



Catarobe 368. 485 



Clay Hall Seedling, 289 



Diana, 224, 314,535 



Foreign, in hot-house frames, . 366 

 Foreign, notes on culture of,. . 160 



Gros Gommier de Cantal, 15 



Hardy, 57 5 



In frames, 295 



Insects on, 55 



Mildew on foreign, 53 



Native, cultivation of, 143 



Practical hints on pruning, . . . 318 

 Preserving for winter use,.... 247 



Pruning, 440 



Pruning hardy, 392 



Pruning, new system of, 16 



Raisin de Calabre, 15 



Raising seedlings, 571 



Reeves' Muscadine, 15 



Rot in, 114 



Soap suds on, 19 



St. Albans 15 



Tan bark for, 302 



Vine borders, 272, 355 



Zinfmdal, 568 



Green-houses, best angle for roofs of, 290 



gardening in, 234 



management of, 66, 290 



plants for, 67 



stage and shelves for, 68 



small, 439 



substitutes for, 459 



watering plants in 69 



Green-house plants, cultivation of, 



255, 341 



great sale of, 340 



green fly on, 89 



summer treatment of, . 86, 156, 575 



Guano, 535 



use of, 203 



Gutta percha, as a non-conductor, . . 534 



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Habrotbamnus elegans, 393 



