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CHAS. H. MAROT, Publisher, 814 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, 



CONTENTS OF THE AUGUST NUMBER. 



SEASONABLE HINTS : 



Flower Garden and Pleasure Ground. 

 Fruit and Vegetable Gardening 



22-5 

 235 



COMMUNICATIONS : 



The Amaryllis in the South 221) 



Cause of Broken Branchlets in the Norway Spruce . 2i7 



Beauty and Utility in the Spike Rush 227 



An Open Letter to a "Flower Sister" 227 



Culture of Cactuses 231 



The Relative Cost of Steam and Hot Water Heating 232 



Manetti.-vcordifolia 2:-i2 



Forcing Strawberries 23ri 



Forcing Strawberries 2:57 



Fragrance 242 



Common Names of Native Plants 245 



Fermentive Activity as an Important Factor in the 



Economy of tlie Creation 246 



Zephyranthes atamasco 24S 



Our Lady's Garden 251 



The Word, Shamrock 252 



Floral Notes from Washington 252 



Names, Wise and Otherwise 253 



The Witch Hazel 253 



EDITORIAL NOTES : 



The White Fringe Tree— Floriculture in Georgia 

 — A Dahliii Stein Borer— Early and Late Flower- 

 ing Single Roses — The Catalpa — Large Pinus 

 Excelsa — Combination Plants — A Magniliccut 



Sjiecimen of the ('ciihuloiiiun Fh- 22S-229 



Efistory of the Scnppt ritonf; (j rape— Paris Green 

 for the Canker Woiiii— Stiiiwberiies in Florida — 

 Josephine de Malines — Drying Ai)ricots — The 



Brussels Si)routs— Saur Kraut with Oysters 238 



Rajiiilityof Growth in Timber Trees — The Cor- 

 aican Pine— Red (Jedar Tclegrai)h Poles— Thin- 

 ning F'trests — An Ancient Forest Fire — TlieCor- 

 sicau Pine — Durability of the Larch— Rapid 



Growth of Ti er Trees— The Way to Make 



Timber Culture Profitable 240-242 



On the Disai)p»;arance of Pith in the Wood of 

 Plants— The Wild Fruits of Colorado— Drinking 

 Water, and Cess-pool Nuisances — A Water Plant 



Catching Fish— Early Botany in Philadelphia- 

 Fertile Hybrids 248-250 



Purchaser's Risk— Honors to M. Rodigas— Jay 

 Gould's Conservatories at Irvington on the 

 Hudson, X. Y. — The Greenhouses of Dennison 

 Brothers, of Philadelphia— A Good Gardener at 

 Libertv— Dr. Franklin B. Hough— Mr. John Feast 



—Charles Turner— The Periodical Cicada 253-255 



American Pomological Society — Botanical Club 

 of the Araerical Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science— Judges at the Universal Ex- 

 position at Anvers 256-256 



NEW OR RARE PLANTS: 



Andromeda Japonica— Red Platycodon grandi- 

 flora— Prunus Pissardi 239 



Davallia tennifolia Veitchiana 233-234 



SCRAPS AND QUERIES: 



Salt on Lawns — The York and Lancaster Rose — 

 Black Fly on Chrysanthemums— G:i8 Killing the 



Roois of' Trees— 5l:ignc)lia cordata 230 



NightBIooniing Cereus — Flowering of Cactuses 



— The Greeidiouse Rose licetle 231-235 



Disease in Cabliages— An English Gooseberry— 

 ImiiHili:itc' lOllect of I'oUeu on Fruit- Scndmg 



Peui lii-s liy v:\press— Centennial Cherry 238-240 



Hybrid lietwiien Hose Geranium and Pelar- 

 gonium— Sell'-Kertillz;ition in the Fig 250 



I'rospects of the Forthcoming Meeting of the 

 American I'oinological Society — The Work of 

 the American Association of Florists 256 



FLOWER GARDEN &. PLEASURE GROUND. 225-230 



GREENHOUSE AND HOUSE GARDENING 2;jl-236 



FRUIT AND VEGETABLE GARDENING 235-240 



P'()RE.STRY 240-242 



NATURAL HISTORY AND SCIENCE 242-250 



LITERATURE, TRAVELS <St PERSONAL NOTES 251-2.55 

 HORTICULTURAL SOCIETIES 25iV25« 



