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CONTENTS OF THE NOVEMBER NUMBER. 



SEASONABLE HINTS : 



Flower Garden and Pleasure Ground. 



Greenhouse and House Gardening 



Fruit and Vegetable Gardening 



COMMUNICATIONS : 



Tobacco Stems and .\shes 



Nicotiana afBnis— A New Annual 



Euphorbias for Embankments 



Planting Tuberose Sets for Sets and Bulbs .... 



Roses Grown in Georgia 



Sedums in Ornamental Gardening 



Lobelia Cardinalis 



Steam Heating a Success 



Pentas Carnea 



New Roses 



Dendrobium Dearii 



A Talk about Mushrooms 



The Corsican Pine for Timber 



A Fine Specimen of Amelauchier Canadensis. 



Extracts from a Botanist's Journal 



Good Words for the Prinos and Holly 



Local Names of Plants 



American Pomological Society 



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liDITORIAL NOTES : 



The Japan Snowball— Evergreen Hedges for the 



South— The Beauty of the Oaks 826 



The Sea Onion— The Palm House at Giasnevin, 



near Dublin— Seedling Ferns 329-831 



Ridiculous Names for Fruits— Identical Fruits— 

 The Globe Peach— Root Fungus and Yellows— 

 Pluni Culture — Specimens c)f Fruits and Plants— 

 Roesch's Vineyards — The Jerusalem Artichoke 



—The Pea Beetle in the Lxst Century 333-834 



Host Plants of the Mistletoe— The Atamasco 

 Lilies — Innnediate Influence of Pollen on Fruit.. 811 

 Postage on Monthly Magazines— Watson's Nur- 



series Brenham,Texas— John Thorpe— Dr. Regel 

 — .\ndrew J. Moore— George W. Clinton— Now 

 Work in the U. .S. Agricultural Department — 

 Materia Medica — Orchard and Garden— Popular 



Gardening 345-346 



Pennsylvania Horticultural Society : Fifty-sixth 

 Annual E.xhibition— New York Horticultural So- 

 ciety's Chrysanthemum Show — Massachusetts 

 Horticultural Society— Meetings of Local Horti- 

 cultural Societies — Chrysanthemum Shows — 

 New Orleans Exposition 349-352 



SCRAPS AND QUERIES : 



Red-flowered Elder — Hardiness of Alstroemeria 



— Callicai'pa Americana 326-327 



Improved Amaryllises — Loss by Gas — Black 



Aphis 331 



Newtown Pippin Apple — Eaton Grape — Fire 

 Blight in the Pear — Ulster Prolific Grape— 

 Hautbois Strawberry — Grapes from Green M'ood 

 Cuttings— Dotted and Russetted Apples— Kala- 

 mazoo Celery— Fruit ot the Japan Chestnut 335-336 



Salix fragilis for Tanning — Growth of Trees at 



R:ihway, N. J.— Change ot Climate 3.38-339- 



The Mistletoe in Virginia — Dead Trees in Louis- 

 ville-Mistletoe in South Carolina 841-342 



Intelligent Readers— Wliere to Locate- Forcing 

 Strawberries 316-347 



FLOWER GARDEN * PLEASURE GROUND. 321-3.'7 



GREENHOUSE AND HOUSE GARDENING 327-331 



FRUIT AND VEGETABLE GARDENING. 331-338 



FORESTRY .33«-:!.'i9 



NATURAL HISTORY AND SCIENCE 339-342 



LITEltATURE, TRAVELS & PERSONAL NOTES 312-347 

 HORTICULTURAL SOCIETIES 347-352 



