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CONTENTS OF THE JULY NUMBER. 



SEASONABLE HINTS : 



Flower Garden and Pleasure Ground. 

 Fruit and Vegetable Gardening 



193 1 

 204 



191 

 191 



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 198 

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 199 



199 

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 211 

 214 

 217 

 222 

 223 



COMMUNICATIONS : 



Clematis Native o f South Carolina 



The Varieprated Eulalia 



Notes on Mildew and Other Topics 



Permanganate of Potash 



The Relative Cost of Steam and Hot Water Heating 



A Remedy for Ro3e Mildew 



A Hybrid Between the Rose Geranium and the 



Pelargonium 



Shrubby BegoDia.s 



Blind \<^oodin Rose Propagation 



Cultivation ; as Atfecting the .Strawberry 



Orapes in Paper Bags 



Fragrance 



Common Names of Plants 



Interesting Places 



AVorld's Kxposition 



Floral Notes from New Orleans 



EDITORIAL NOTES : 



Cultivating the Mammoth Sequoia of California 

 —Tar Water Against Insects — Public School 

 Gardens — Magnolia cordata — Preserving Iron 

 Surfaces from Oxidation — Portraits from Bed- 

 ding Plants — Root Insects on the Clematis- 

 Spiraea astilboides 195-1B6 



Rose Lusiades— Mimulus Culture in Pots 201-202 



Cultivating Orchards— Artificial Manures — Peach 

 Yellows— Fire Blight in the Pear— Fruits to Eat 

 or Fruits to Sell— To Clean Mealy Bugs from 

 Hot-house Grapes— Classification of Apples^ 

 The Pear as a Kamily Fruit— Clapp's Favorite 

 Pear in Europe— The Most Popular English 

 Apple — I.arge Pears — Wilson Junior, Blackberry 

 —The Regeneration of the Potato— Product of a 



Single Potato— Tomatoes in Turkey 207-209 



Forest Fires— Educated Foresters— Drainage for 

 Trees— A One-leaved Yellow Locust— Growth of 

 Timber in Rocky Land— Spanish Moss— Succes- 

 •Jon of Forest Growths 209-211 



Selaginellainvolvens variegata — Honey Dew.... 211-216 

 The Duke of Westmmster's Oai'den — Mummy 

 Peas— P. B. Hovej — The Canadian Forester's 

 illustrated Guide — The Jesup Collecti<ni of 

 Woods of the United States— Gray's Botanical 

 Text Book — Five Acres too Much- Mushrooms 

 of America : Edible and Poisonous — Fruit Cul- 

 ture—Orchids : A Review of their Structure and 

 History — Talks Afield al)Out Plants and tlie 

 Science of Plauts — Baron Mueller's Select Plants 218-220 

 The Premium System, as Exemplified at New 

 Orleans— The "American Garden''Prizes — Penn- 

 sylvania Horticultural Society — American So- 

 ciety of Florists— American Exhibition in Lon- 

 don 224 



NEW OR RAKE PLANTS: 

 Dieffenbachia rex 



202-20S 



SCRAPS AND QUERIES : 



The Hen and Chicken Daisy— Lavatera arborea 



variegata 196 



Disease in Roses — New Carnations— Beautiful 



Pansies — Double Richardia alba roaculata 202 



Origin of the Name Goober for the Pea Nut — 

 Bud Variation — Fruiting of the Salisburia at 



Lewisburg, Pa.— The Hollyhock Disease 216-217 



The Shamrock of Ireland— Giddings' Nurseries, 

 Danville, Illinois— The Lawson Pear 220-221 



FLOWER GARDEN A PLEASURE GROUND. 193-196 



GREEIOIOUSE AND HOUSE GARDENINa 197-20S 



FRUIT AND VEGETABLE GARDENING 201-200 



FORESTRY 209-211 



NATURAL HISTORY AND SCIENCE 211-217 



LITERATURE, TRAVEL8 4 PERSONAL NOTES 217-221 

 HORTICULTURAL SOCIBTIKS 222-234 



