li. 



Lady's Tresses, 213 



Landscape Gardening, hints on,. 489 



Landscape, Winter, 54 



Laurel, American, 203 



Lawns, making new, 191 



— a word or two on, 234 



Lawrence, Mrs., Garden of,.... 447 



Leaf Blight, 117, 354 



Leaves, .«ave the dead, 481 



Iiejnundra virginica, 212 



lielters from England, 36, 83, 137, 281 



Lettuce, Best Summer, 376 



— Xe;ipolilan Cabbage, 376 



I-il'e Everlasting, 213 



Lilium canadeuse, 212 



— pliiladelphicum, 212 



— superbum, 212 



Lily Wood, 212 



Lime, oyster shell, 52 



liinnea borealis, 211 



Liriodenaron tulipefera, 201 



List of plants to be observed, 484 



Liverleaf, 207 



liobelia caidinalis, 213 



— siphilitica, 213 



Locusts, Seventeen year, 335 



Lonibardy Poplar, 129 



London Parks, 281 



Loose strife, 211 



Lupine, AVild, 211 



Lupinus perennis, 211 



liycojierdon cancellatum, 3.54 



Lysimacliia stricta, 22, 211 



M. 



Macleania cordala, 325 



Magnolia, Umbrella, 334 



Magnolias 223 



Manures, Forest leaf, 104 



— for evergreens, .334 



— philosophy of, 428 



— special, 198 



Maple, red, 291 



— white, 291 



Market gardening, 377 



May Apple, 209 



Melon bug, striped, 513 



Melons, 126 



— culture of, 511 



— culture of at the north, 228 



— how to plant, 194 



— water 196 



Memoranda. Pomologieal, 351 



Meteorological Notes, 151 



Mice, hurtful to trees, 527 



Mitella diphylla, 208 



Mitre wort 209 



Moccasin flowers, 210 



Model fruits, Glover's, 406 



Mount Fordham, cattle sale at,.. 372 

 Mulching, experiments in, 320 



— Importance of, 237 



— Tau-bark for, 244 



Mushrooms, how to grow, 264 



N. 



Naked places, 56 



Natural History, register of,.... 484 



Necklace Weed, 208 



Nectarine, Harker 376 



— a smooth peach, 243, 339 



New Orleans, gardening at, 221 



New- York Park, 345 



New- York .State Fair, 486 



Norfolk Ag. Society, 535 



Norris Castle. 37 



North Carolina, foreign vines in, 243 



Notes of the season, 151 



reform, 377 



lea odorata, 211 



GENERAL INDEX. 



O. 



Ohio mineral paint, 101 



Oleagnus parviflorus, 384 



Olive, IJohemiaUj 334 



Onion, llie acumniate, 382 



Orange trees, sickly, 342 



Orchards in New England, 31 



— in Wayne county, N. Y.,. . . . 159 



— renovating old, 561 



Orchis speclabilis, 210 



— Iringed 212 



Osage Orange, 203, 483 



Osborne House, 36 



Oxalis boweij 377 



Oyster shell hrne, 52 



P. 



Paeonies, tree, new, 332 



Paeony, tree, gardens of in China, 302 



Panned cups, 213 



Painting houses, 197 



Paint, Ohio mineral, 101 



Parasitic fungi, 316 



Parlor flowers in winter, 501 



Park, New-York, 345 



Parks in London, 281 



Parks, animals for, 171 



Park, study of 427 



Partridge Berry, 211 



Peach, analysis of the, 102 



— and nectarines, 339, 437 



— at the south, 64 



— Walburton admirable, 377 



Peach tree, boiling water for,. . . 187 



— cause of decline, 392 



— effects of shortening in, 384 



— Premature decay ot", 491 



Peach worm, new mode of de- 

 stroying, 109 



PEARS— varieties: 



Barronne de Mello, 116 



Beurre Andusson, 154 



Beurre Benoist, 116 



Beurre Bretonneau, 116 



Beurre Clairgeau of Nantes, 505 



Beurre Crapaud, 293 



Beurre de Waterloo, 113 



Beurre Giffard, 116 



Beurre Langlier, 112 



Beurre Scheidweller, 116 



Beurre Sprin, 116 



Beurre Sterkmann, 116 



Beurre Superfin, 116 



Bon Parent, 116 



Brown Beurre, 357 



CaUnka, 116 



Doyenne de Nerchmann, . . . 116 

 Doyeinie du Cornice d' An- 

 gers, 504 



Doyenne gris d'Hiver nou- 



veau, 114 



Fondanle de Malines, 113 



Fondante de Millot, 116 



Howell, 115 



Inconnue Van Mons, 113 



Lawrence, 30 



Marechal de la Cour, 116 



Nouveau Poiteau, 112 



Sheldon, 52 



Saint Nicholas, 114 



Smith's Bordenave, 116 



Soldat Laboureur, 116 



Souvenir d'Etes, 115 



Triomphe de Jodoigne, 115 



Niedow, 504 



Williamson, 494 



Pear trees, blight of, 193 



— Detroit River trees, 65 



— Diseases of, 123 



— for Northern Climate, 293 



— Four best, 194 



— French mode of pruning,. . . . 178 



— Largest Pear yet, 527 



Pear trees. Leaf blight, 354 



— Modern, Chapter on, Ill 



— On the Quince, 29, 361 



— Orchards of S. B. Parsons, . . 29 



— Pyramidal trees, 177 



— Renovation of old, 425, 535 



— Running out of, 480 



— Seedling slocks, grafting of,. . 56 



— Select list of, 487, 536 



— Three new, 503 



Peas, a word about early, 290 



— Best late, 376 



— Champion of England, 143 



— Early, 376 



— Knight's Fall Marrow, 144 



— Prince Albert, 143 



— Russian mode of preserving, . 380 



Peat earth, 198 



Pennsylvania, trees and pleasure 



grounds of, 69, 127 



People's Park at Birkenhead,. . . 224 



Pepper Root, 208 



Petunia Eclipse, 325 



Physiology, vegetable, 204 



Picea cephalonica,.. 241 



Pickerel weed, 210 



Pickneya pubeiis, 104 



Pinetum at Dropmore, 1.37 



Pink grass, 210 



Pinks, Dwarfs of Verviers, 183 



Pinus excelsa, 241 



Pitcher plant, 210 



Pits, drip in, 51 



Plant, scientific history of a, ... 267 

 Plants, how first distributed, .... 47 



— neglected American, 201 



— notices of new, 324, 468 



— to be observed, 484 



— winter beddings of, 392 



— roots of, 50 



PLUMS— varieties : 



Autumn G:ige, 133 



Bleeckcr Gage, 132 



Blue Imperatrice, 133 



Cloth of Gold, 133 



Coe's Golden Drop, 132 



Coe's Late Red, 132 



Columbia 132 



Denniston's Red, 134 



Denniston's Albany Beauty, 134 



de I'Inde, 561 



Early Royal 133 



Emerald Drop, 1-33 



General Hand, 21, 187, 294 



Green Gage, 132 



Groundacre, 294 



Gundaker, 524 



Huling's Superb, 133 



Ickworth Imperatrice, 134 



Imperial Ottoman, 133 



Jefferson, 133 



Lawrence's Favorite, 133 



Lombard, 132 



Lucomb's Nonsuch, 133 



Marten's Seedling, 133 



Mediterranean, 133 



Montgomery, 294, 524 



Morocco, 133 



Nectarine, 134 



Peach, 1.32 



Prince's Imperial Gage, 1.33 



Pond's Seedling, English, . . . 560 



Purple Favorite, 134 



Purple Gage, 134 



Purple Magnum Bonum, 1.33 



Red Diaper, 133 



Red Gage, 134 



Royal, 134 



Schenectady Catharine, 132 



\Vashington, 133 



wild, 231 



Yellow Magnum Bonum, . . . 133 



Plum trees, curculio on, 34 



