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CONTENTS OF THE JUNE NUMBER. 



161 

 175 



SEASONABLE HINTS : 



Flower Garden and Pleasure Ground 



Fruit and Vegetable Gardening 



COMMUNICATIONS : 



Chrysanthemum Fragments 162 



Wearing of the Eye in Zinc Labels 161 



The China Tree 164 



The Marbled Rose 165 



Flower N otes from New Orleans ^ , 165 



Winter and Spring Flowering Dendrobes 168 



Mixed Plants in Greenhouses 168 



Coral Tree 169 



Flowering of the Sunset Rose . 170 



The Sunset Rose 170 



The Culture of Cactuses 171 



Improvements in Propagating Plants 172 



Pruning and Care of Orchards 175 



The Comet Pear 176 



Old Apple Trees 176 



Notes on Remarkable Trees 179 



ThcAtamasco; or, Fairy Lily '. IHI 



Cypripedium insigne 182 



Badly Sold 187 



Exhibition Notes from New Orleans 190 



World's Exhibition and Cotton Centennial — The 



Continued DispKay 190 



Floral Notes from the New Orleans Exposition 191 



KDITORIAL NOTES : 



Raising New Varieties of Gladiolus— The Winter 

 Aconite— Broken Branches of Norway Spruce — 

 Disease of the Hollyhock— Kosa rubrifolia— 



Passion Flower, Constance Elliott 166-167 



Electricity in Bouquets— Arrangement of Roses 

 as Cut Flowers— Clematises as Pot Plants— Ex- 

 pensive Orchids— A Large Chrysanthemum— 

 The Camellia- The Rose-leaf Fungus— Toads in 

 (Jreenhouses- Utilizing the Trunks of Tree 

 Ferns — A Fine Chrysanthemum — Diseases of 



Roses — Early Flowering Azaleas 172-173 



Mulching — Forcing Fruits in America— Injury 

 to Fruit Crops by Birds— The Bee Nuisance— 

 (;atcliing Cotton Moths— Bees and Fruit— The 

 English .Sparrow- Early Fruits and Vegetables 

 —Paper Bags for Grapes— Tewkesbury Winter 



Blush Apple— The Cut-leaved English Blackberry 



—The Wonderful Strawberry 177-178 



Profitsof Forestry— An April Forest Fire 179-180 



How to Produce Variegation — Botanic Garden 

 in Montreal— Effect of Frost on Orange Trees in 

 Florida — Wild Celery Seed— Tree Tomato of 

 Jamaica— Sewage- Clematis from South America 

 —Economic Use of Wild Cherry Kernels— A 

 Plea for the English Sparrow— The Perfume of 



Roses— Japanese Tea 182-186 



History ot Hybrid Gladiolus— Liability of Seeds- 

 men — The Earliest Nursery in the United States 

 —Nurseries of B. Mann & Sons, Lansing, Mich. 

 —David Douglas— Nursery of Mr. A. Giddings, 

 of Danville Indiana — Mr. George Rosenham — 

 Valuable Works for Sale— Eucalyptographia— 



Fruit Culture— .Vlictoscopical Bulletin 187-189 



Exhibitions by Private Kirms— The Pennsylvania 

 Horticultural Society — Californian Fruits at the 

 New Orleans Exposition — Exhibitor of Cactuses 

 at the New Orleans Exhibition— The American 

 Association of Nurserymen 192 



NEW OR Rare plants : 



Double Bouvardias- Begonia hybrida gigantea 

 Coleus, Nonsuch — Rose, Merveille de Lyon — A 

 Dwarf Stephanotis— Dieffenbaohia rcgina, 173-174 



SCRAPS AND QUERIES : 



Hyacinth Bulbs— Care of Lawns— Double Fring- 

 ed Petunias 167 



Forcing Strawberries 178-179 



Silk Culture— The Tulip Tree in Florida— Forest 



Culture 180-181 



Loco Weed 186 



Correction of Note on Persimmon— Direction of 

 Letters— Dante's Pronunciation of Veronica 189-190 



FLOWER GARDEN 4 PLEASURE GROUND. 161-167 



GREENHOUSE AND HOUSE GARDENING 168-174 



FRUIT AND VEGETABLE GARDENING 17&-179 



FORESTRY 179-181 



NATURAL HISTORY AND SCIENCE 181-186 



LITERATURE, TRAVELS 4 PERSONAL NOTES 187-190 

 HORTICULTURAL SOCIETIES 190-192 



