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CONTENTS OF THE SEPTEMBER NUMBER. 



SEASONABLE HINTS : 



Flower Garden and Pleasure Ground. 



256-258 



COMMUNICATIONS*: 



American Roses 258-262 



Cut Tea Rose Trade 564-265 



Steam Heating 565-266 



Sash Bars 266-i67 



Cypripedium Barbatum 567 



Increase in the Florist Business in Cincinnati 267 



Carnation, Peter Henderson ; 267-268 



New Early Peaches 269-270 



The Old Seckel Pear 370-272 



Forestry in North America 277-278 



Fertilization of Yucca 279-281 



Pickweed 280 



Notes and Queries No 16 283-284 



Humbugs in Horticulture 286-287 



EDITORIAL NOTES : 



The Trumpet Vin»s — Spirae i palmata — American Trees 



in French Gardens 262-263 



The Hardy Heaths — Memorial Trees— A Huge A zalea 968 



Ripening of Raspberry Canes — Litiz Apple — Mexican 

 Vegetables — The Susquehanna Peach — The Sickel 

 Pear— The Kirkwood S'.iawberry — A Nebraska Fruit 

 Farm — The Cream of the Strawberries — Trapping 

 Dogs and Cats— Grapes in Grape Houses — Popular 



Strawberries — European Peas — Early Strawberry 272-273 



American Forests in Europe —Tea Culture in the United 



States - Duration of Timber »jS-2jg 



Dr. Tanner's Fast — An English Heath Wild in Kan- 

 tucket — Fowl Meadow Grass — Pickweed 280-28 1 



Progress of the Town of Greeley, Col-The Arboricultural 

 Census — The Late Robert Buist — A Garden in New 

 Brunswick — Mahlon Moon — D. Waldo Lincoln — M. B. 

 Bateham — C. C. Langdon — The Paterson Nurseries- 



Floral Art in England — A New Work on Botany — 



Dairy Farming — Purdy's Small Fruit Instructor 284-286 



Portage Co. Ohio, Horticultural Society — Maryland 

 Horticultural Society — French Vineyards — Horticul- 

 ture in Texas — Georgia State Horticultural Society.. . . 287-288 



SCRAPS AND QUERIES: 



Landscape Gardening — Grass for Lawns — Ampelopsis 



Veitchii 263 



Disease in Mareschal Niel Rose — Ants — Earthen 

 Flower- Pots — Rooting a Sago Palm — Greenhouse 

 Bulbs — Paullinia thalicirifolia — Azalea — Winter Tem- 

 perature—Earthen Flower-Pots 268-269 



Ishara Sweet Apple — The Brighton Grape — Questions 

 in Fruit Culture— The Parnell Peach— Fruit Culture in 

 Alabama — A Large Watermelon — Bowers' Early Peach 

 — Market Gardening — The English Sparrow — The 



Kreigh Raspberry — The Schumaker Peach 274-276 



Change in a Rose — Vitis incisa — Change of Character 

 in a Fruit Tree— Freezing the Sap — Honey Dew — 



Wax-wort 281-283 



Gardening and Gardeners — Notes and Queries 286 



FLOWER GARDEN AND PLEASURE GROUND. . 258-263 



GREENHOUSE AND HOUSE GARDENING 264-2^9 



FRUIT AND VEGETABLE GARDENING 269-276 



FORESTRY 177-279 



NATURAL HISTORY AND SCIENCE 979-483 



LITERATURE. TRAVELS AND PERSONAL NOTES 283-286 

 HORTICULTURAL SOCIETIES 286-28* 



