GENERAL INDEX. 



A. 



Abies smithiaiia, 241, 342 



Acer dasycarpum, 291 



— iiegundo, 291 



— rubrum, 291 



Achimenes, culture of,. 437 



Acres, Scotch and English, 487 



Actea alba, 208 



— rubra, 208 



jEgeria exitiosa, 492 



Agaric campestris, 264 



Agave americana, 15 



Ag. Interest, Na. ignorance of,. 393 



Agricultural Schools, 287 



Albany University 531 



American Plants, Neglected.. . . . 201 



Ammonia in Horticulture,.. ..... 96 



Anemone nemorosa, 208 



— thalictroides, 208 



Animals for p.trks. 170 



Ants, to destroy,. .' 342 



Aphis persica, 492 



APPLKS — varieties : 



Baldwin, 22 



Belmont 181 



Black Lady, 509 



Cooper, 181 



Dickson's Emperor, 377 



Kaighn's Spitzeiiberg, 181 



Northern Spy, 351 



Pryor's Red, 181 



Putnam Russett, 181 



Red-streak, 496 



Ribstone Pippin, 16, 292 



Rome Beauty, 181 



Townsend. 22 



Transparent de Zurich, 509 



Apple orchard. A little talk in the, 255 



Apple pomace, 194 



Apple irees, Analysis of, 44 



Diseases of, 122 



for Northern climate, 293 



Apricot trees, 3.35 



seedling, 383 



crackings of the trunk ot", . 392 



Aquarium. Comstock's, .... 41.3, 482 



Aquatic plants, culture of, 413 



Aquilegia canadensis, 209 



Araucaria 241 



Arbutus, trailing, 207, 296 



ARCHITECTURE, RURAL: 



Building, our progress in,. . . 249 

 Church in Romanesque style, 574 

 Coltage for a country cler- 

 gyman, 313 



Country churches, 9 



E.xpression in, 421, 562 



Freestone coltage, plan of . . 173 



Rural church, 241 



Stable, ornamental, 98 



School-house, design for a, . . 471 



Arethu^a, snakemouth, 210 



Arnott's stove, jg 



Aronia botryapium, 209 



Art, the beautiful in, 463 



Artificial Rockeries, 276 



Arum triphyllum, 208 



— water, 210 



Asclepia-s grandiflora, 212 



— tuberosa, 212 



Ashes, unleached, 194 



Aster, 214 



Atragene americana, 342 



Autumn Hints, 481 



Autumn pruning, 535 



Azalea, 209 



Azurum canadensis,* 208 



B. 



Baccata flore pleno alba, 507 



— fructa purpurea, 506 



oblonga, 507 



striata, 506 



— macrocarpa, 506 



— odorata, 507 



— spectabilis, 5o8 



— lran.«parent de Rouen, 5o8 



Beautiful in Art, 463 



Beech tree, 14 



B«ees, 100, 176 



Beliwort, 208 



Berberis japonica, .325 



Bignoniacapreolata, 147, 334 



Birds, eloquent plea for, 157 



Blackberries, 296 



— while, 440 



Bloodroot, 208 



Blue Flag, 211 



Bluett, 209 



Blueyed Grass, 210 



Boiling water for peach trees, . . . 187 



Bone earth of New-Jersey, 196 



Bones, how to dissolve, 197 



Books for Horticulturists, 293 



Borer, the, 492 



Botany, Rough Notes on th« His- 

 tory of, 311 



Box, propagation of, 295 



Brick walls, wash for, 295 



Buckthorn, 56, 82 



Buddlea Undleyana, 242 



Building, Our progress in, 249 



Buttonwood disease, 322, 349 



C. 



Cabbage, Pomeranian, 376 



Cacti, how to graft, 377 



Cactus, New Mexican, 350 



— opuntia, 212 



California seeds, 242 



Calla palustris, 210 



Calopogon pulchellum, 210 



Caltha palustris, 208 



Camellias, 99, 103 



— hardy at Boston, 242 



Campanula rolundiiolia, 212 



Canadas, Horticulture in the,. . . . 292 



Cape Jasmine, Fortune's, 468 



Carisbrook Castle, 39 



Carnations, 392, 481 



— properties of, 184 



— protection for, 576 



Carrot, value of the, 196 



— white transparent, 97 



Cassia chamoecrista, 211 



— nictitans, 211 



Cauliflowers, Be.st 376 



Cattle, sale of Improved, 296 



— sale at Mount Forham, 372 



Ceanotlms dentatus, 325 



— papillosus, ,325 



Cedar of Lebanon, .392 



Cercis canadensis, 292 



— siliquastrum, 341 



Charcoal, refuse, 148, ia3 



CHERRIES: 



Black Hawk, 360 



Governor Wood, 360 



Great Bigarreau, 20, 193 



New and valuable, 440 



Robert's Red Heart, 21 



Two New, 360 



preservation from birds, .... 336 



Cherry trees, disease in, 126 



grubs in, 197 



Chestnuts, how to traasplant, ... 81 

 Chimaphila maculata, 211 



— umbellata, 211 



Chionanthus virginica, 292 



Churches in the country, 9 



Chrysanthemums. 392 



Cicada septendecim, 335 



Claytonia virginica, 208 



Clematis virginicus, 212 



Climate of Newport, 574 



Climbers, 146 



— diflerence m, 392 



Coal ashes, 1 04 



Cockroaches, receipt to kill, 342 



Cold on plants, action of, 431 



Columbine, 209 



Commissions of Gardeners, .... 288 



Convallaria, 210 



Convention, pomological, 383 



Corcus trestis, 513 



Corydalis fungosa, 210 



— glauca, 210 



Cottages for country clergymen,. 313 



— plan of a freestone, 173 



Cottages, cheap, 487 



Country in autumn, 553 



Country places, management of, 105 



Cows for parks, 172 



Cowslips, vi'aler, 208 



CRABS : 



Astracan or Evergreen, 508 



Currant 509 



Double flowering, 508 



Double white Siberian 507 



Fragrant flowered Siberian, 507 



Large Siberian, 506 



Oblong Siberian, 507 



Purple Siberian, 506 



Rouen Transparent Siberian, 507 



Showy, 508 



Striped Siberian, 506 



Cranesbill, 211 



Cryptomeria japonica, 241, 3.34 



Crystal palace, winter garden hi, 4.30 



what is to become of the,. 431 



Cucumber flea, 512 



Curculio, destruction of the, 3.3, 243, 

 336, 375 



— Extirpator, .383 



— Limewash for the, 525 



— notes on the, .' 280, .396 



— Prof Harris on the, 341 



— successful practice against,.. . 230 



— versus Lime and Sulphur, .... 420 



Curl in peaches 492 



Currant, plan of improving the,. . 164 



— Leaf, 20s 



Currants, large, 296 



Casenta americana, 212 



Cuttings, 104 



Cutworm, to destroy the, 198 



Cypress, deciduous, 223 



Cypripedium, 210 



D. 



Dahlias, 481 



Daphne odora, 335 



Decorative Gardening, 134 



Denlareadiphylla, 208 



Deodar Cedar 241 



Detroit River Pear trees, 65 



Deutzia gracilis, 468 



Dew, philosophy of, 304 



Diseases of the potatoe and But 



tonwood, 322 



Dodder, 212 



Dogs, secret of perfect itistinct in, 155 



