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CONTENTS OF THE OCTOBER NUMBER. 



SEASONABLE HINTS : 



Flower Garden and Pleasure Ground. 

 COMMUNICATIONS : 



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Manettia cordifolia 



Gas Killing Trees ; 



Amaryllis in the South 



Dark Hybrid Perpetual Roses 



Cottage Gardening at Upland, Delaware Co., Pa.... 



Fagus purpurea tricolor 



Cactuses , 



Propagating from Blindwood 



Rose Cultuie 



Dieffenbachia Weirii 



Chrysanthemum Fly 



Insects in Cabbage Roots 



Culture of the Blueberry 



Succession of Forest Growths 



Letter from Paris 



Our Lady's Garden 



American Pomological .Society 



Florists' Convention Notes 



The International Exposition at Antwerp, Belgium. 

 Apparently Different Ideas Amongst Business Men. 



EDITORIAL NOTES : 



Gardening in New Brunswick, Can. — California 

 Palm — Fine Sugar Maples — Rose, Lamarck- 

 Perpetual Polyantha Rose 294-295 



The Short Crop of Strawberries— Pear, William 

 Fuller— Fig Culture in Florida — Cherries from 



California— Alpha Peach 302-303 



The Wood of Thuja gigantea, and of Cupressus 

 Nutkaensis — Forestry in New Hampshire — 



200 

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 30.') 

 310 

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318 

 319 

 320 



Forests and the Water Supply— Wood for Cigar 



Boxes 306-308 



New Races of Flowers — Sources of Nitrogen in 



Plants 308-309 



A Monument to General Grant — Where to Locate 

 — Free Distribution of Seeds by the Govern- 

 ment—Poverty Weed — Randolph Peters— Mr. 



Hitchings- The American Florist 313-311 



American Pomological Society — The Florists' 

 Convention at Chicago 320 



NEW OR RARE PLANTS : 

 Amasonia punicea 



300-301 



SCRAPS AND QUERIES: 



Dark Flowering Cactuses— New Single Tuberose 

 — Rhododendron Culture — Rye Grass for Lawns 



— Bleeding in a Norway Spruce 295 



Flowering of Cactuses — Flow Pipes in Hot Water 

 Boilers— Will Warm Water Run Down Hill ?— 



Disease in Coleus 299-300 



Running out of Varieties of Fruit- Grapes in 

 Valley of Virginia— Small Berries on Lindley 



Grapes— Lutie Grajie— Capers 303-30* 



Finding Rare Plants— Mistletoe on the 0.ak — 

 Change in an African Marigold 309-310 



FLOWER GARDEN A PLEASURE GROUND. 289-295 



GREENHOUSE AND HOUSE G ARDENTNQ 296-301 



FRUIT AND VEGETABLE GARDENING 302-304 



FORESTRY 3n,'i-.i08 



NATURAL HISTORY AND SCIENCE .308-310 



LITERATURE, TRAVELS & PERSONAL NOTES 310-314 

 HORTICULTURAL SOCIETIES 3ir>-320 



