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CONTENTS OF THE MARCH NUMBER. 



BBASONABLE HINTS : 



Flower Garden and Pleasure Ground. 

 COMMUNICATIONS : 



A New Double Bon Silene 



Carpet Bedding at the Government Grounds, Ottawa, 



Can 



Notes on Begonias 



William Francis Bennett Rose 



Canna Iridifinra Ehemanni 



Notes on New Plants 



The Carnation Disease 



Gas Tar 



The Insect Problem 



A Hundred Bushels of Apples from One Tree 



Grape Rot 



English Gooseberry 



Empire State Grape 



Zinc Labels 



Introduction of New Vegetables 



Facts in Forestry 



Soil Analysis 



Trees Growing Through a Tombstone 



My Second Visit to Lorillard's Gardens 



Lines on Dr. Warder 



Personal Experiences in the Life of a Gardener 



Special Premiums of the Massachusetts Horticultural 



Society 



Floral Notes from New Orleans Exhibition 



The New York Chrysanthemum Show 



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EDITORIAL NOTES : 



Tall I^te-flowering Pajonies— I-ilium Leichtlini, 

 Hook. fil. — The Japanese, or Ranianas Rose — Iris 

 juncea— Horticulture as an Element in Progress.. 67-69 

 Improving Garden Flowers — Cypripedium grande 

 — Heating anil Gl.azing at Rcebrer Brothers, Lan- 

 caster, Pa. — Dinner-Table Decoration 73-76 



American Apple Tra<le— Corner in Oranges — Cel- 

 ery. Early Arlington 79 



Root Fungus — Professor of Forestry in Michigan — 



Profitable Timber Trees 81-82 



Davallia Fijiensis plumosa 83-85 



Should Horticulture be Taught in our Public 

 Schools? — Duncan Rhind — Dr. Asa Gray — Mr. Se- 

 reno Watson— Lithography in the Nursery Busi- 

 ness — George C. Briggs — Select Extra-tropical 

 Plants — How to Propagate and Grow Fruit — State 

 Board of Horticulture of California, Annual Re- 

 port tor 1883— Palmer's Monthly 91-83 



American Pomological Society— The Pennsylvania 

 Horticultural Association — Massachusetts Horti- 

 cultural Society : Death of Mr. Downing 9ft 



SCRAPS AND QUERIES : 



Coning of Cedar ot Lebanon— Grass for Sandy 



Ground 69 



Gas Tar in Greenhouses— Ravages of the Rose 



Bug— The Double Oxalis 76 



The Cut-leaved English Blackberry— Vine Culture 



in America 80 



Can Plants Sleep for Centuries ? — Immediate In- 

 fluence of Pollen on Fruit — Cedar Vine— How to 



Hybridize- Wax-berry Candles 85-8T 



Reminiscence of A. J. Downing — Honorable 

 Names to Plants— Origin of the name Persimmon 93-94 



FLOWER GARDEN & PLEASURE GROUND. .. 65-69 



GREENHOUSE AND HOUSE GARDEINING 69-7S 



FRUIT AND VEGETABLE GARDENING 77-80 



FORE.STRY 80-82 



NATURAL HISTORY AND SCIENCE 82-87 



LITERATURE, TRAVELH A PERSONAL NOTES. . 87-94 

 HORTICULTURAL SOCIETIES 94-96 



