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CONTENTS OF THE APRIL NUMBER. 



8BA80NABLE HINTS : 



Flower Garden and Pleasure Ground. 



Greenhouse and House Gardening. 

 OOMMUNICATIONB : 



New Geraniums 



New Double White Mignonette "Snowball" 



The Classes of Roses 



Combination Hedges 



The York and Lancaster Rose 



Cyclamens 



Of Taste in Floral Arrangement 



Mildew in Roses 



The Hot-water Cure 



Paint for Hot-water Pipes 



Qhiesbreght's Sericographis 



Removing Oas Tar from Hot-water Pipes 



The Cyclamen 



Propagating Plants 



The Fruit of the Japan Quince 



The Foreign Gooseberry 



Wire as a Plant Support 



Soil Analysis 



Torpid Vegetation 



Economic Uses in Nigella Damascena 



Close Union of Different Species of Trees 



Rcminiscenses of Charles Downing 



Ladies' Tresses or Traces 



Ladies and Horticulture 



Bulb Collecting 



Origin of the Name Persimmon 



The World's Exposition and Cotton Centennial 



la^ITORIAL NOTES : 



The Love of Herbaceous Plants— Dangers from 



Wire Fences — Callicarpa purpurea 



Vegetation Under Orchard Trees— Uniformity in 

 Apple Barrels— Prices of Fruit in Rochester in 

 18S4— Product per Acre of Strawberries in West- 

 em New York— Cure for Grape Vine Mildew— 



The Japan Plum— Experience in Gardening ill 



Silk Culture in France — Mahalcb Cherry as a 

 Timber Tree— Canada and the Timber Duties- 

 Forestry in the Old World— Rain-fall in England 



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—Preserving Railroad Ties— Encouraging For- 

 estry in Pennsylvania 113-114 



Weakened Vital Power Through Continuous 

 Forcing — Immediate Inliuence of Pollen on 

 Fruit — Flowering of Brownea grandiceps — Influ- 

 ence of the Gralt on the Stock 19-117 



M. Carriere— Tewin — Knowledge of Every-day 

 Things — James Ritchie — New book on Garden- 

 ing in the South — How John's Wife Made Money 

 at Home— Corn and Potato Manual — The Peanut 

 Plant— The Tobacco Remedy— Prairie Experi- 

 ence—Cactaceous Plants — Plant Life on the 

 Farm— Transactions of the Worcester County, 



Mass., Horticultural Society lor 1884 122-125 



Pennsylvania State Horticultural Association . . 127-128 



NEW OR RARE PLANTS: 



New Varieties of Ferns; Adiantum cuneatum 

 deflexum— Adiantum rbodophyllum 107-1(9 



SCRAPS AND QUERIES : 



Copper Wire Jar Zinc Labels— Raising Chrysan- 

 themums from Seed— Umbrella Tree— Win tering 



Roses in the North-west 101-lOS 



Insects on Roses and Carnations— Cause of Mil- 

 dew on Roses and Other Plants — Greenhouse 



Flues— Double Oxalis 106-107 



Insect Injurious to the Tomato 112 



Rare Rof^ky Mountain Firs and Pines— Conifera^ 



of the Rocky Mountains 114 



Yellow Berried Myrtle Holly— Hcteromeles ar- 

 butifolia— Cyprinedium insigne with two Flowers 



—A Large Putt Ball— Diseased Roses 117 



Cinnamon Vine— Careless Statements of Facts- 

 Derivation of Diervilla 125-120 



FLOWER GARDEN <k PLEIA.SURE GROUND. 97-102 



GREENHOUSE AND HOUSE GARDENING 102-109 



FRUIT AND VEGETABLE GARDENING 109-112 



FORESTRY 113-114 



NATURAL HISTORY AND SCIENCE 114-117 



IJTERATURE, TRAVELS A PERSONAL NOTES 118-126 

 HORTICULTURAL SOCIETIES 126-128 



