GENERAL INDEX, 



VII 



Peach trees, noriliern at tlie south, . . 257 

 ■ on plum stocks, 2^37 



priiduclive, 223 



- Yellows m, 55 



PEARS: 



Bonne des Zees 241 



Bloodgood, 199 



Belle ot' Brussels 199 



Dearborn's Seedling, 199 



Doyenne, 240 



Easter Berganiol, 241 



Frederick de Wurtemburj, . . 97 



Fredrica Bremer, 241 



Moyamensing, 199 



Musk Robert, 199 



Notes on, 199 



Rostiezer, 199 



Tyson, 199 



Windsor or Summer Belle,. . . 199 



Zoar Beauty, 199 



Pear trees, blight in, 55 



coal cinders for, 67 



dwarf, situation for 248 



- dwarfinar 184 



—— "rowing in Morocco, 178 



grafting, 2SS 



hints for raising seedling, 23 



large plantation of, 1S2 



— — management of, 46 



old, in Bartram's Garden,. ... 2.33 



to make bear, 287 



to protect iVom mice, 237 



training, 247 



Pelargonium — see Geraniitm. 



Pfflonias, tree, 49 



Pennsylvania Hort. Society, June 



exhibition, 56 



Julydo. 104 



annual do., 148 



Augustdo., 152 



Septemberdo., 248 



Penn. trees and pleasure grounds,. . . 251 



Plane-tree, pyramidal, 186 



PLAIVTS : 



Acclimating exotic, 6S 



Green-house, exposing in sum- 

 mer, 189 



Grown at .Sliangliae, 94 



Hardy in New-Jersey, 50 



Herbaceous, hardy, 236 



Motion of sap in, 89 



Names of impoi taut, 144 



On walls, to protect, 115 



To raise from cuttings, 14, 63, 170 



To protect tender, 248, 2S1 



AVild, names of. 53 



PLUMS : 



Bin?ham, 200 



Claude de Bavay , 1 83 



Drapd'Or, 200 



Dennison's Superb, .... 200 



Ickworth Imperatrice, 241 



Jefferson, 183 



Lawrence, 200 



Notes on, 200 



Rivers' Early Prolific, 183 



Reine Claude de Bavay, 241 



Plum trees, black knots on, 145 



Podophyllum peltatum, 51 



Poetry of trees, 24 



Pomegranate, culture of in Morocco, 178 



ormmental flowering ISl 



Pomoloeical Congress at Cincinnati, 241 



Potato, disease in, 143 



Poultry, rearing, 195 



Practical hints, by An Old Digger,. . 29 



Preserving Iruit. recipe for, 02 



Primeval vegetation, 237 



Propagating house, 15 



Propagation by cuttings, .... 14, 63, 170 



Pruning grape vines, 12) 29, 43 



■ Perpetual roses, 278 



—— root, notes on 216 



Purpureum fruiticosum, 186 



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Raspberries, Monthly Everbearing, 183 



need transplanting, 55 



Review of Rural Hours 230 



- Architecture of Country Hou- 



ses, 139 



Rhododendrons, culture of, 55 



Rivers' Nurseries, England, 181 



ROSES : 



Augusta, a perpetual, 149 



Contmuous Blooming, 46 



Culture of in pots, 277 



In Rivers' Nursery, 185 



Manetti for stocks, 185 



Management of Perpetual, . . . 278 

 Prairie^ history and varieties of, 101 



Pruning Perpetual, 278 



Select Perpetuuls, 247 



Rough notes t'roni the west, 67, J31 



Rural Hours, by a lady, 230 



life, random thoughts on, 107 



Salad ground near Erfurt 91 



Sanguiiiaria canadensis, 51 



Sap, motion of in plants, 89 



St. Louis Hort. Society's Festival.. . 212 



Scientific nomenclalure, 187, 233 



Singular fact 149 



Slugs, to destroy, 91 



Snails, to destroy, 91 



Soil, importance of stirring, 30 



■ Is hard pressed better th;'n po- 

 rous ? 224 



Stift'clay, 2-8 



Sophora, Weeping Japan, 125, 190 



Southern Iowa, 242 



horticulture, notes on, 2-55 



Species, transmutation ol', 93 



Spring gossip 23 



Spruce, Himalayan, 125 



Steam culture, 42 



Storm of July 5th 99 



Stoves anathematized, 202, 283 



Stratford, ou Avon, 122 



.STRAWBERRIES: 



Burr's New Pine, 47. 96. 98. 127. 

 151, 187,273 



Black Prince, 96. 127, 160 



British Queen 96. 98, 15]. 273 



Boston Pme. 97, 127, 149. 169. 273 

 Beds, winter coverlns lor,. ... 271 



Cusbing ". 127 



Crimson Cone, 128, 273 



Columbus 96, 127 



Culture of, 96, 126, 272 



at Buffalo, 149 



in pots 183 



in western New-York, . 272 



Forcing, IsS 



Hovey's Seedling, 49, 96, 127, 



149, 169, 278 



Hudson, 123 



Jenny's Seedling, 273 



Large Early Scarlet, 127, 149, 



169, 273 



Lord Spencer, 273 



Mulching beds with tan bark, 



49, 168, 271 



Princess Alice Maude, 273 



Packing for transportation, . . . 194 



Rival Hudson 96, 169 



Ross Phcenix 273 



Scarlet IMelting, 127 



Singular mode of growing, 



183, 244 

 Striped bugs to destroy, 98 



for mulching trees, 149 



for mulching strawberries, 49, 



163, 271 

 Taste, remarks on, 259 



in landscape gardening, 237 



Temperature, effects of locality on,. 20 



Tea culture in France, 280 



Thorburn & Co.'s green-house, 180, 199 

 Transmutation of species, 93 



of fruits, 32,150 



Transplanting, 100, 162, 284 



TREES : 



Disbarking deciduous .... 161, 196 



Drooping, 123 



Effects o"f lightning on, 237 



Girdled, living, 149, 196 



Headi:ig back transplanted, . . 285 



In Pennsylvania, 251 



In Bartram's Garden, 253 



Large, 139, 1.5S 



On plan'.ing, 247 



Poetry of, 24 



Plea for, by Miss Cooper, 136 



Raising from seed, 243 



Shortening-in, 161 



Transplanting, 100 



while growing, 162 



To give luxuriance to, 250 



Trellises lor grapevines, 11 



Tulip tree, 214 



V. 

 Vegetation, Mexican, 83 



prnneval, 237 



Ventilation, importance of, 206 



apparatus lor, 283 



Verbenas, remarks on, 89 



new kinds, 49, 143 



Victoria regia, at Chalsworth, 222 



history of. 275 



in its native waters, 147 



Villa and suburban gardening. 145 



Villages, country, lemarks on, 65 



Vineries, inquiry about, 199 



answer to inquiry, 96 



Mr. Niblo's, 50, 193 



Mr. Van Rensselaer's, 47 



Vines for verandas, 289 



Vineyards of the west, 57 



Virginia Creeper, 266 



Visit to Bartram's Garden, 2.53 



to Rivers' Nurseries, 181 



10 Thorburn Ic Co.'s Nursery, ISO 



to J. M. Whitney's Garden,.. . 99 



•w. 



Walnut, dwarf prolific, 183 



Warwick Castle, description of, .... 117 



AVashiiigtou anecdote of, 254 



AVasps, destruction of, 190 



AValcr, medicinal effects of hard,. . . . 2.33 



Watering plants, 29 



AVheelbarrow, horticultural, 1.30 



Wild plants, names of, 53 



Willow, Weepinar, 123, 185, 214 



Wilson, the ornilhologisl, 255 



Wimpole, description of, 157 



Winemaking, experiment in, 13 



Wiiic made at Cincinnati, .59 



Winter pleasures in the country,. . . . 273 



AVire-worm, to destroy, 91 



Wislaria sinensis, 49, 55, 2?3 



AVoiid. to preserve from worms, .... 195 



Woolen rags as manure, 45 



AVoolsey's green-house, 199 



Worcester Horticultural Socicty;242, 246 



Yellows, cause of, 24 



remedy for, 5ci 



Tamarisk tree, 186 



Tan bark tor vine borders, 50 



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