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CONTENTS OF THE MAY NUMBER. 



SEASONABLE HINTS : 



Flower Garden and Pleasure Ground. 

 Fruit and Vegetable Gardening 



COMMUNICATIONS : 



Canna Ebemanni 



The Clematis 



Geraniums 



Notes on Some New or Rare Plants 



Glazing 



The Good Economy of Gas Tar 



Floral Notes from Nevv Orleans 



Encourage Window Gardening 



To Make Hanging BaslcPts 



CoalTar on Hot- Water Pipes 



Diminished Crops Through Injury to Foliagp 



One Hundred aud Twenty Bushels of Apples from 



One Tree 



Notes from Zanesville 



Empire State Grape 



The Insect Problem 



Old and I,arge Trees 



Nigella Damascena 



Peach Diseases 



The Oerivation of Persimmon 



Mechanics Interference with Gardeners 



The Name Persimmon 



A Knowledge of Horticulture 



Ku^h'light Candles 



Horticulture at the New Orleans Exposition 



Massachusetts Horticultural Society 



Floral Notes from the New Orleans Exhibition 



Spring Show of the Massachusetts Horticultural 



Society 



Cactaceaj and Agave at the World's Exposition 



EDITORIAL NOTES : 



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New Styles of Chrysanthemums— Platycodon 

 granditlorum — Fringed Petunias — Hyacinlhus 

 candicans — Improvetl Asters— Improvement of 



the Wall-Flower— Another Upright Poplar 133-131 



Platycerium grande— Another Rose coming to 



America 139-140 



Cold Water to Kill Insects— The Japan Plum— 

 The Niagara White Grape— The Comet Pear- 



Early Canada Peach— A First-class Pea— Ameri- 

 can HUckberries in England 144-14& 



A Live Wooden Fence — Forest Commission in 



California— Wood of the Butiemnt Tree 146 



Hybrid Potatoes— Herbarium of Mr. Howard 

 Shiiver, Wythevdie, Va.— Solanum Lemmonii— 



Aiithurium splendidum 14S 



Col N. J. Colman — Mr. James Morton — Parker 

 Earle— Ur. Regel— '1 he Home Florist— Vine Cul- 

 ture in California— The Horticultural Directory 

 of the United Slates— Manual ol Agriculture for 

 the School, Ihe Farm and the Fireside— Index 

 Medicus— The Summit Co. (Ohio) Horticultural 

 Society Reports for the Last Sixteen Months- 

 Report of the U. K. Department of Agriculture 

 f<u' 1881- Chautauqua IJterary Society — The 

 Canadian Horticulturist— The American Seeds- 

 man—Woods and Forests 153-154 



Pennsylvania Horticultural Society 159-ie» 



SCRAPS AND QUERIES : 



Lily Disease— Cedar of Lebanon in Virginia— A 



Double Lilium speciosum 134 



Tendency of Sunset Rose to make Blind Shoots 

 —Yellow Double Oxalis— The Bridal Rose, Black- 

 berry 140-141 



Japan Quince lor Preserves 145 



The J.ala(> Root— Individuality in Plants— Imme- 

 diate Etlect of Pollen— Pinus Banksiana not in 

 Colorado— Geography of Cactaceous Plants— Im- 

 mediate Influence of Pollen on Fruit 148-151 



Kind Words fnun a Subscriber — Sericographis 

 Ghiesbrcchtiana— Plural Names— Wants to Know 151-155 



FLOWER GARDEN 4 PLEASURE GROUND. 129-134 



GREENHOUSE AND HOUSE GARDENING 134-141 



FRUIT AND VEGETABLE GARDENING 141-145 



FORESTRY 145-148 



NATURAL HISTORY AND SCIENCE 147-151 



LITERATURE, TRAVELS A PERSONAL NOTES 151-155 

 HORTICULTURAL SOCIETIES 155-160 



