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CONTENTS OF THE 



SEASONABLE HINTS : 



Flower Garden and Pleasure Ground 3.S 



Greenhouse and House Gardening 38 



Fruitand Vegetable Gardening ir> 



OOMMUN1CATION8 : 



Lophospermum Scandens 31 



Planting Large Trees 35 



Cultivation o( tlie Cyclamen 3!) 



A Remedy fov Rose Mildew in Greenhouses 39 



Cyclamen Flowers 40 



Kalamazoo Celery 4tJ 



Is the English Gooseberry Worth Growing ? 48 



Interesting Vegetable Forms 51 



Bits of Reminiscences 5R 



Massacluisetts Horticultural Society in November 63 



Hints to Exhibitors 6t 



EDITORIAL NOTES: 



Painting Hot-water Pipes with GasTar— ACiiicago 

 Orchid Grower — Panax Victori:i}— The Chrysan- 

 themum Disease— On the Cultivation of Chrys.an- 

 themums— Hot-water Pipes— Cultivating the Dove 



Orchid 40-13 



Columbia Grape — Eugenia Grape- Planting Peas 



— Potato Sets — Lima Beans without Poles 49 



Wild ('horry Timber— A National Forestry Law- 

 Protection Against Fo!-cst I'^ires- Large nef:idu- 

 ous Cypress— Rapidity of Forest Fires— Wiuste 



Land in Kngland .'iO-^'51 



Medinilla Curtisii hii-5.') 



Making Known the Gaui>rnrks' MoNTiifiV — The 

 Landscape Gardener of Fairinouut Park— Gooil 

 for Insects— Col. M. P. Wilder— Charles Downing 

 —Charles Darwin— Rev. James Hprunt— The Agri- 



FEBRUARY NUMBER. 



cultural Grasses of the United States— The Peo- 

 ple's Farm and Stocli Cyclopedia— Floral Maga- 

 zines 57-60' 



A Grand Chrysanthemum Show— Mass. Horticul- 

 tural Society 61 



SCRAPS AND QUERIES: 



Worms in a Rose-bed- Myosotis Eliza Ganrobert 



—Japan 1 rises— Propagating Roses 37-38 



Oxalis hitea plena— Disease in Carnations — Des- 

 troying Plant Lice— Gas Tar on Hot-water Pipes- 

 Watering Plants with Warm Water— Mildew 43-45 



Big Fruits — Fiiinigators for Hot-beds— Growing 



the Koreign Grape 49-50 



Sudden Developments in Species— Curious Fact 

 About the Variegation of Foliage— Change in the 

 Color <tf Flower of Victoria regia— Injurious In- 

 sects—The Relation of Color to Flavor m Fruits 

 anrl Vegetables— The Tuberous Vines of Cochin 



China r^S 



Lands(!ape Gardening Work — Profits of Plant and 

 Seed Collecting -Diseases of Plants— Mr. A. N. 

 Curtis— Hook on Cultivated.Plants— Ladies' Traces 

 or Ladies' Tresses 61-63 



FLDWKR GARDKN A PI, KAStrilK GROUND. .. 33-38 



(JUKK.V HOUSE AND 1H)USE GARDENING 38^5 



KltlllT AND VF,(H-:TAI!LE GARDENING.. 45-50 



FORESTRY SO-.'il 



N.XTHK.M, HISTORY AND SCIENCE 51-55 



LITERATURE, TRAVELS A PF.RSONAL NOTES.. 56-63: 

 HORTICULTURAL SOCIEl'IES 63-«4. 



