Plum Trees, Diseases of, 125 



— For northern climates, 290 



— Notes on, 294, 376 



— Pyramidal, 47 



— Warts on, 280 



Pogonia ophioglossoides, 210 



Polygalia paucifolia, 209 



Pomtne o^rosciUe, 509 



Pomological convention, 383 



Pomological memoranda, 351 



Pomological Congress, 180 



Pontederia cordata, 210 



Poplar, forest, £91 



Portulacca new variety of, . 477, 596 

 Potato and Buttonwood diseases, 322 

 Potatoes, sweet, culture of. 3S4 



— from seed, 130 



Preservation of fruits, 290 



Prince's Pine, 211 



Prime, the Gundaker, 524 



Pruning, effects of late, 48 



— fruit trees, 55, 72 



— forest trees, 197 



— fruitfuliiess promoted by late, 268 



— on the right time for, 255 



— principles of, 330 



— theory of, 546 



Prickly pear, 212 



Pumpkin Bug, 513 



Pyrola rotundifolia, 211 



Quinces, diseases of, 125 



— on thorns, 101 



— Scarlet Japan, propagation of, 192 



R. 



Rabbits vs. Sulphur, 247 



Railroads in England, 138 



Random notes, 147^ ]52 



Red bud tree, 292 



Reform, nursery, 377 



Reform in village government, . . 441 



Regents' Park, 2*^4 



REVIEWS : 



Barry's Fruit Garden, 329 



Breck's Book of Flowers, . 239 

 Briiickle's Am. Pomologist, . 427 

 •Tohnston's Notes on N. Am. 399 



Michaux's N. A. Sylva, 541 



Norton's Elements of Ag.,, . 41 

 Russell's Address before the 



Norfolk Ag. Soc, 518 



Treatise on the Construction 



cf Hot-houses, 41 



Ware's Sketches of Europe- 

 an Capitals 520 



West. Hoi t. Review .' 42 



Wheeler's Rural Homes 567 



Rhododendron catawbience.. . . , 241 



Richmond great park 286, 386 



Rio, the gardens of,. 301 



Rock saxifrage, \ 208 



Rockeries artificial, '. 276 



Romans, hothouses among, ..... 378 



Roots of plants, 50, 456, 543 



Ro.sa rubiginosa, .' 212 



ROSES — varieties : 



£oM?-6oni--Bouquetde Flore, 367 



Comte d'Eu 367 



Enfant d'Apaccio, 367 



George Cuvier, 368 



Grand C.apitaine 368 



Pierre de St. Cyr, 368 



Queen, 368 



Souchet, 368 



Souvenir de Malmaison, . . 369 

 OAtnas— Archduke Charles,. 368 



Clara Syl vain, 368 



Eugene Beauharnais, 36S 



Mrs. Bosaiiquet, 308 



Hybrid Perpetuvls—.BaTOime 

 Prevost, 367 



GENERAL INDEX. 



Roses— Dt. Marx, 367 



Duehess of Sutherland, . . . 367 



Geant de Batailles, 367 



La Reine, 367 



JVTadame Laffay, 367 



Standard of Marengo,. . . . 367 



William Jesse, 357 



Noisettes — Aimee Vibert, . . . 369 



Narcisse, 369 



Ne Plus Ultra, 369 



Ophirie, 369 



Tea-scented — Adam, 368 



Comte de Paris, 368 



Devoniensis, 358 



Eliza Sauvage, 368 



Safrano, 368 



Augusta, 436 



Fortune's Five Colored, .... 287 

 Prairie, "Mrs. Hovey,"247, 366 



Budding, 336 



Bug on, 392 



Cream of the Catalogues, . . . 366 



Free-blooming winter, 1 04 



In pots, 51 



In winter, 454 



Insect on the Chma, 188 



Large trees, 182 



Perpetuals, 341 



Planting of, 46 



Protection for, 576 



Propagation by cuttings, 328 



Seedlings, 197 



Tender, proteclion of,. 385 



Rudbeckia vacciniala.. . . .' 212 



Rural Cot of Mr. Knott, 254 



Rural Hours, by Miss Cooper, . . 192 



S. 



Saccalobium Prsemorsum, 419 



Salem Horticultural Exhibition,. 102 



Salisburia adaiuifolia, 129 



Salt for the potato, 149 



Sanguinaria canadensis, 208 



SanSwich Islands, Sketch in,. ... 414 



Sarracenia purpurea, 210 



Saxifraga virginiensis, 20S 



Schnellgeiser, 215 



School of Design for Women, . . 390 



Schools, State Agricultural, 387 



Seasonable hints, 235 



Seeds of fruit trees, 295 



Seeds of trees, 103, 394 



Sensitive Plant, wild. 211 



Sliad bush, .' 209 



Slieep, South Downi, 173 



Shrubs for small grounds, 536 



Siberian Crab for Hedges, f-2 



Siberian Crabs, double white,. . . 507 



Fragrant flowered, 507 



Large, 506 



Oblong, 507 



Purple, 506 



Rouen Transparent, 507 



Striped, 506 



Side-saddle flower, 210 



Sisyrenchum anceps, 210 



Skinner, J. S., death of, 288 



Snake mouth Arethusa, 210 



Snowballs, cure of diseased,, . . . 295 

 Soils, improvement of stiff clay, . 289 



Solidago 213 



Solomon's Seal, 210 



Spider, Red, 342 



Spiiinach, New Zealand, 340 



Spiranthus gracillia 213 



— lortilis, .' 213 



Spirea prunifolia pleno, 242 



Spring Beauty, 208 



Squash, best winter, l:"-; 



Stable, design for ornamental,. . . 9S 



Stands for flowering plants, 60 



St. James' Park, London 282 , 



STAWBERRIES— varieties : 



Alice Maud, 357, 4,36 



Black Prince, 357 



Buist's Prize, 364 



Burr's Mammoth, 364 



Burr's New Pine, 356, 364 



Burr's new varieties, 365 



Crimson Cone, 365 



Deptford Pine, 364 



Dr. Briiickle's, 365 



English, best, 377, 548 



Hovey's Seedling, 356, 364 



Huntsman's Pi.slillate, 364 



Jenny's Seedlings, .357 



Lord Spencer, 356 



McAvoy's Superior, 383 



Mvatfs Eliza, 364 



Myatt's Pine, 365 



Richardson's, 365 



Roseberry, 357 



Schiller, < 364 



Strawberries, beds how to make, 191 



— Culture of, 362, 545 



— in England. 548 



— Fine crops of, 294 



— Gigantic .383 



— mulching, 327, 363 



— notes on, 62, 246, 356, 374 



— Prize, ,3S3 



— Staminates productive,. . a36, 363 



— Tan bark a covering for, .... 535 



— Tannic acid for, 415 



Srrawberry Hill, 510 



Stove.s 101 



Subsoiling, 148 



Suburban Embellishments, 98 



Sulphurating machine, 95 



Sulphur used against Rabbits, . . . 247 



Sumac, poison 392 



Superphosphate of lime for trans- 

 planting, 445 



Swallow worl, 212 



Sweet Briar. 212 



Sweet Corn, Improved, .... 53, 197 



T. 



Tan, spent, benefits of, 



Tan-bark for mulching, 



Tannic acid for strawberries, .. 



Taste, essay on, 



Taxodium semperviren.i, 



Thuya filiformis, 



Tiarella cordifolia, 



Tomatoes, 



Torreya tsixifolia, 



Touch-me-not, 



Transplanting, hints on, 



— Late, 



— Sea.son for, 



Traveller's Joy, 



Trees, age of. 



Bearino- a^e of fruit, , 

 Beauliml in, 



— Girdled, 



— Hardy, 



— List of old, 



— mulching, 



— of America, 



— Poor soils for, 



— Removal in winter, 52, 



— Resuscitation of 214, 



— Seeds of, 



— Streets, for, 



— Superphosphate of lime for,.. 



— Transplanting forest, .... 78, 



Tree Primrose, 



Trenching, 



Trientalis americana, 



Trillium ei'Pctum, 



Turnep, wild or Indian 



U. 



Ulraus americana,. 



328 

 244 

 415 



73 

 241 

 241 

 209 

 488 

 242 

 212 

 523 

 296 

 259 

 212 



14 



71 



.55 

 J 98 

 241 



16 

 327 

 541 



56 

 108 

 561 

 103 

 488 

 445 

 198 

 213 



57 

 209 

 209 

 208 



