INDEX TO ILLUSTRATIONS. 



VU 



Vernal prass, 5S1. 



Villages, improvemeiil of, 545. 



Vine, Allen on 0ie,338, 302. 



borders, 447. 538. 



formation of, 474. 



Vines, bugs on. 101. 



in pots, 504. 



Vineries, care of, 51. 

 Vineyards, experiments on, 113. 



visits to tlie best French, 279. 



Vineyards, profits of, 334. 



in Indiana, 350. 



Viola arborea, 244 



Virginia creeper, .357. 



Wadsworth, .fames and James S., 163. 



Wash for buildings, 150 



Water in level countries, 340. 



Weather, changes indicated in the, 



28S. 

 Weigelia rosea, 533. 



Wilder, Marshal P., notice of. 14. 



liorticultural honor to, 438. 



Window gardening, 370. 



Wine on the Ohio, 250 



Winter, effects of in Delaware, 541. 



Wintering plants in pots, 345. 



Wintlirop, Robert C, address of, 229. 



Wistaria sinensis, 03, 355. 



Wood ashes for insects, 293. 



Yoke for horses, 398. 



INDEX TO ILLUSTRATIONS. 



LIST OP PLATES. 



I. Marshal P. Wilder, President of liie Mas- ) to face 



sachusetts Hort Society, - • - ) page 14 



II. Design for a Small Cottage, - ... - 47 



III. Souvenir de la Malmaison Rose, - - - - 57 



IV. Designs for Rural Scliool-houses, .... 182 

 V. View in the .Meadow Park at Geneseo, . . 103 



VI. Horticultural Festival at Boston', .... 224 



VII. Cottage in the Swiss Style, 287 



VIII. Design for a small Villa. 334 



I.X. Plan of a Suburban GardL-n. - - - - 379 



X. Langwood, ^fo 



XI. Design for an Italian Vdla. *»■> 



XII. Design for a Suburban Cottage, ... - 521 

 XIII. Design lor a Villa in the Tudor .Style, . - - 560 



LIST OP ENGRAVINGS. 



FI-OWEnS. 



Geranium, 73. 

 Chrysanthemum, 171. 

 Double Brugmansia, 2.jfl. 

 Double Japan .Spiraia, 377. 

 Fringed Chinese Primrose, 434 

 Asiatic Torenia, 523. 

 Plumbago Larpentoe, 502 

 Forsythia viridissima. 503. 



FRUITS. 



Apples : 

 Summer Bellefleur, 16'. 

 Belle et Bomie, 323, 

 Republican Pippin, 333. 

 Smoke-house, 334. 



Apricot : 

 Large Early, 33 



Cherry : 

 Buttner's Yellow. 84. 



Currant : 

 The Cherry, 85. 



GoOSEBEItRV : 



Hougliton's, 120. 



Pears : 

 Ananas, 242. 

 Brandy wine, 107. 

 Chancellor. 507. 

 Ott. 4.32. 



Plum : 

 Red Diaper, 30. 



Raspberries : 

 Col Wilder, 135 

 Modes of growing, 527. 



Strawberry : 

 Burr's Xew Pine, 84. 



Miscellaneous : 

 Ornamental vases, 40. 

 Ornamental fountain, 41. 

 Lower part of .-■. svcainorf' 



178. 



Botany, illustrations of the Lin- 

 nocan system, 205, 200, 207, '268. 



Climbing plants on cedar trunks. 

 .359. 



Moveable trellis, .359. 



Oven for drying prunes, 379. 



AVindow gardens, 428 



Great palmhouse at Ke%v, 478. 



New Japan cedar. 482. 



Rural Architecture : 

 Chimney tops, five small sized, 37. 



three medium sized, -38. 



three Grecian or Italian, 38 



Elizabethan, 39. 



Grccn-house, section of, showing Pol- 



maise mode of heating, 124. 



ground plan of, 124. 



Polmaise furnace, 120. 



groundplanof the same, 



120. 



plan for a .small, 259. 



section of the same, 259. 



simple mode of lieating, 273. 



VTpper floor of an Italian villa. 483. 



