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CONTENTS OF THE DECEMBER NUMBER. 



5AS0NABLE HINTS : 



Flower Garden and Pleasure Ground. 



■ Greenhouse and House Gardening 



Fruit and Vegetable Gardening 



OMMUNICATIONS : 



Lady's Rock Garden 



he Best New Roses to be sent out November Ist, 



I8S.5. in France 



hjury to Roots from Coal Gas 



iouthem-Grown Roses 



Protecting Roses in Winter 



Some New Introductions of this Year 



Jarnation, Pres. Degraw— Its Fault— The Remedy.. 



Ctorozema cordata 



The Predisposing Causes of Mildew 



A Plea for the lloe 



Facts in American Forest Planting 



Native Flowers of South Carolina near the Mountains 



of North Carolina 



Variation in Nature 



Horticulture in the United States during the Last 



Fifty Years 



Massachusetts Horticultural Society 



Horticultural Displays ' 



Opening Day of the North, Central and South Amer- 

 ican Exposition 



EDITORIAL NOTES : 



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374 

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38.5 



ican Grape Culture— Is the Fire Blight an Enemy 

 or Friend of the Pear Grower- Improved Saur 

 Kraut 



.365-367 



The Stephanotis as a Cut Flower— Yellow Hybrid 

 Perpetual Rose — Ilex comuta— Syringa Japonica 

 — Syringa ligustrina — A New Spruce, Picea 

 Breweriana — Cedrela Sinensis — The Fastigiate 



Birch 857-358 



Culture of Tree Mignonette in England— The 



Red 8j)ider— Seedling Ferns 302-363 



Bark Insects on Fruic Trees- Grafting and Bud- 

 (ling- Russian Apples— The Lawson Pear— Good 

 Use for Bad Sparrows — Olive Culture— Pear 

 Bliglit — Qualifications of Good Celery— Straw- 

 berry Growing in England — nise.oyc of the Peach 

 in New Zealand -Chenics undei' (ilass— Gladney 

 Apple — American Grape Vines in France— Amer- 



Cocoanuts in New Jersey — Profitable Forestry 

 in America— Spotted Leaf in Pine Trees— Amer- 

 ican Woods— The So-called Hardy Catalpa 370-371 



Frank J. Scott— The Grounds "of George W. 

 Chdds, Bryn Mawr, near Philadelphia— AFraud 

 and His Partners— Ridiculous Names for Fruits 

 —A Fungoid Disease — Az.alea Mollis— Water 

 Rights — famines in the l^aud — Ruskin's Notions 

 of Botany— The Panaw Tree, Carica Hapav.a- Mr. 

 M. H. Lester — Mrs. M. P. Wilder — Joseph 



.Schwartz 375-380 



The Chrysanthemum Show of the Pennsylvania 

 Horticultural Society— The New York Chrysan- 

 themum ^how- Horticultural Conventions 385-386 



SCRAPS AND QUERIES : 



Disbranching of Norway Spruce in Winter — 

 Crocking or Draining Pots— Black Fly on Chry- 

 santhemums-Double Stocks 358-359 



Palms for a Small Conservatory — Spineless 



Cactuses— f^oft Soap 363-364 



The Bacterian Theory of Pear Blight — Disease in 

 Raspberries — Kitson Pear — Apple, Beutley's 



Sweet^Yellow Forest Apple 368-369 



Grafting Dutch Bulbs 378-374 



R. C. Poppey — Mr. Grove P. Rawson- Prospects 

 of Gardening in Georgia— Exaggerated Pictures 

 The Past Year in Washington Territory 380-382 



FLOWER GARDEN A PLEASURE GROUND. 353-359 



GREENHOUSE AND HOUSE GARDENING 360-364 



FRUIT AND VEGETABLE GARDENINa 8«<-S69 



FORESTRY 8(»-371 



NATURAL HISTORY AND SCIENCE 371-374 



LITERATURE, TRAVEL^ * PERSONAL NOTES 374-382 

 HORTICULTURAL SOCIETIES 383-386 



