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SEASONABLE HINTS : 



Flower Garden and Pleasure Ground. 



Greenhouse and House Gardening 



Fruit and Vegetable Gardening 



CONTENTS OF THE SEPTEMBER NUMBER. 



American Pomological Society. . 



COMMUNICATIONS : 



Note on Azalea mollis, and Rhododendrons 



Destruction of Trees by (Joal Gas 



The Umbrella China Tree 



Cactuses 



Culture of the Cacti 



Verbena Culture 



Steam Heating a Success 



Cabbage Maggot 



Strawberries in Florida 



A Dry Autumn and Strawberries 



The Cabbage Worm 



A Cheap Tree Digger 



Denuded Norway Spruces 



The Rose— Its Place in Antiquity among Flowers... 



Effect of Drouth on Plants 



Wild Flowers of Rochester, N. Y., as Compared 



with California 



Our Lady's Garden 



Goober arid Pindar 



Where Klorists should Locate 



Dutch Prizes for American Exhibitions 



International Exjiosition at Antwerp, Belgium 



The Cactuses at New Orleans 



EDITORIAL NOTES : 



Forest Fires of 188.')— The Age of Yew Trees- 

 Plantation of II. G. Russell, of East Greenwich, 



Rhode Island 



The Curl in the Peach 



Lawson or Comet Pear — History of the Leconte 

 Pear — Downing's Fruits and Fruit.trees of Am- 

 erica — Hard-working Editors — Prof. J. G. Lem- 

 mon — Mr. Edgar SantUrrs — Andrew McNair 

 Dryburgh — Charles Wright — The Elm Leaf 

 Beetle — American Fruit Culturist — Trans- 

 actions of the Ma,sHachusetts Horticultural So- 

 ciety-Report of Prof. J. C. Arthur, Botanist to 

 the New York Agricultural Station, 18SI— The 

 American Florists 



288 



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 2(i3 

 2S9 



25.S 

 2i9 

 260 

 264 1 



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2()B 

 287 

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 271 

 271 

 272 

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 27B 

 276 

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278 

 2^:0 

 281 

 282 

 28(i 

 287 

 287 



27.'>-27fi 

 278-270 



NEW OR R.\RE PLANTS: 



Cvpripedium oenanlhum superbum— Rose, " Her 

 Majesty" 209 



NEW OR RARE FRUITS: 



Elberta Peach— The Jewell Strawberry 272-27a 



SCRAPS AND QUERIES : 



Magnolia cordata— Lawn Grass — X White-leaved 

 Honey Locust — Trees lor Public Scjuares — Wear- 

 ing Out of the Suspension Holes in /inc Labels 

 —Grass for a Lawn — Hardy Cacti— Dahlia Stem 

 Borer— Destroying Chickory and Similar Weeds 

 —Improved Hepaticas— Treatment of Rhododen- 

 drons— Hall's Japan Honeysuckle— Injury by the 



Seventeen-Year Locust 260-26S 



Linseed Oil and Sulphur as a Cure for Rose .Mil- 

 dew — Flowering of the Night-blooming Cereus — 



Begonia Feastii 207-209 



Black Knot— Quicksilver for the Phylloxera — To 

 Keep Zinc Labels from Wearing — Forcmg .Straw- 

 berries — Figs for Drying— R. E. Lee Peach — The 

 Springfield Black Cap Raspberry — The English 



Ciooseberry 273-275- 



Variations among Plants— Odor in Cereus grandi- 

 llorus— Tobacco Changing to Petunias— Fertile 



.lapan Yam 279-280' 



Maurandya Barclayana— Lily of the Valley— Old 



Olive Groves in Florida— Queer Names 286 



FLOWER GARDEN 4 PLEASURE GROUND. 257-263 



GREENHOUSE AND HOUSE GARDENING 203-209 



FRUIT AND VEGETABLE GARDENING 269-278 



FORESTRY 27^-270 



NATURAL HISTORY AND SCIENCE 27&-280' 



LITERATURE, TRAVELS 4 PERSONAL NOTES 280-280 

 232-280 HORTICULTURAL SOCIETIES 288-288. 



