iisriDEx.-'vori. xiici^. 



Abies concolor and Lowi- | 

 ana, 217 

 Absorption, Poison by Plant 



Roots, 12;^ 

 Acacia, Kaniesian, 213 

 Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila ,55,281 

 " & E.D.Cope,371 

 " " Herbarium, 373 



Acalypha marginata, 73 

 Accuracy, Scientific. 375 

 Acre, Tomatoes to the, 209 

 Adiantum Aneitense, 364,365 

 Adornment, Small Yards, 



130, 162. 226, 231 

 .aesthete in Pear Flavor, 146 

 Aged Trees, 212 

 Agreratum, 67 



Agricultural Education, 

 Wilder's Speech, 220 

 " Grounds, Improve- 

 ment, 100 

 " Machine Improve- 

 ments, 24 

 " Report, Penna., 126 

 Alianthus as Timber, 117 

 " Health and, 154, 230 

 " in South Jersey, 149 

 " Sex of, 313 

 " Silk Worms, 370, 373 

 " The, 290 

 " Timber, 84, 181 

 Akebia quinata. Glutinous 



Stigmas in, 248 

 .Vlbany SeeiUing Strawber- 

 ries, Degenerate, 307 

 Allamanda, 296 

 Almond Growing from 



Peach, 21 

 Alteruantnera aurea. 



New, 39 [in, 145 



America, Foreign Grape 

 " Forest Growth in, 180 

 " Peach in, History, 347 

 American and English Sea- 

 '• The, 383 [sons, 186 



'• Apples in China, 305 

 '■ Banner Rose, 357 

 " Botany Contributions, 

 " Candle, 282 [286 



" Chestnut, 223 [22 



" Early Weep. Willows, 

 " Farmer, The. 62 

 " Forestry Ass'n , 117, 192 

 " Game Bird Shoot- 

 ing, 320 [351 

 " Journal Forestry 222, 

 " Jute, 145 

 " Naturalist, The, 62 

 " Newspaper Annual, 27 

 " Nurseryman, 285 

 " Nurserymen's Ass'n., 



192, 2.56 

 " Pomol. Society, 190 

 " Silk & Fruit Culturist, 

 320 [Growth, 53 



" Timber Trees, Rapid 

 " Vegetables and Fruit, 

 " Wonder Pea, 116 [209 

 Ames', F. L., Orchids, 202 

 Among the Elder Bushes, 

 Amsden Peach, 3a5 [258 



Ancient Ploughing, 26 

 Anemone nemorosa. Pur- 

 ple, 248 [Tree, 184 

 Annual circles. Wood in 

 Anthurium crystallinum, 48 

 '• Schei-zerianum maxi- 

 Ants, 60 [mum, 23 

 Apple and Pear Trees, Dis- 

 ease, 177 [Pear, 207 

 " as Stock for Seckel 

 " Baldwin, 116 

 " Beaufln, or Biffin, 222 

 " Beauty of Hants, 270 

 " Bentlev's Sweet, 113, 

 " Borer, 176 [147 

 " Crop. Michigan, 304 

 " Highland Beauty, 147 

 '■ Market, Glut in, 145 

 " Native, 178 [209 

 " Newtown Pippin, 115, 

 " Rome Beauty, 81 

 " Trees, T>ongevity, 114 

 " Twin, 22 [305 

 Apples, American in China, 

 " Canadian, Superior, 209 



Apples, Drying Whole, 146 



" Dwarl, Success with, 



" Massachusetts, 211 [148 



" Mecklenburg Co., N. 



" Pine. 210 [C, 337 



" Storing, 146 



" Very Hardy, 81 



" Weight of, 367 

 Apricot, 251 [iiig, 3.54 



Araucaria imbricata, Fruit- 

 Arboi etum, Derby, England 

 163. 288 [in, 308 



Arboriculture, Graduates 

 Arborvitse, Golden Plume, 7 



" Grafted on Retinos- 

 pora, 228 



" Historical Notes, 246 



" Siberian, 292 

 Arbor-vitaes, 166 

 Arch from Pine Tree, 228 

 Arctic Coniferre, 91 

 Ardisia crenulata, 74 

 Areca Baueri, 26 [ing, .340 

 Arguments for Tree Plant- 

 Arizona, Notes from, 276 



" Vegetation, 153 

 Arkansa , European Wal- 

 nuts in, 244 

 Arnold Arboretum, 70 

 Arranging F'lowers, 170, 363 



" Cut Flowers, Sciencej 

 350, 362 

 Arrestors, Spark, 309 

 Art and Science, 125 



" Museums and Uses, ftJ 



" Western, 189 

 Arum Family, 121 

 Asparagus, 244 



" plumosus, 74, 76 [191 

 Associations, City Florists, 



" Nurserymen & " .384 

 Ataniasco Lily, 155 [168 



Attendance, Steam Boilers, 

 Anriphone, Peculiar, 288 

 Australia, Flora of, 94 



" Grapes in, 210 



" Peach Culture in, 210 



" Sparrows in, 57 



" Timber Culture in, 118 



" Tree Planting in, 180 

 Australian Bottle Tree, 123 



" Explorer, Forest, 125 



" " Leichardt, 125 



" Glory Flower, 41 [22 

 Autumn Flow'rs, Berkshire, 

 Avenue of Crj'ptomeria Ja- 



ponica, 7 

 Azaleas, Seedling, 203 



Bacteria, 62 

 ' ' in Fruit Diseases, 208 

 " Theory, 84 

 Bad News for Tobacco 



Raisers, 16 

 Baldwin Apple, 116 [of, 221 

 Baltimore, The Hallidays 

 Bananas from Seed, 58 

 Barbed Wire Fences, 367 

 Barfoot, Prof.J.L.,Death,319 

 Bark Scale Remedy, 51 [261 

 Baroness Rothschild Rose, 

 Barrv, Patrick, .378 

 Bassett Plum, 81 [244 



" W. F., Strawb'y from, 

 Bears New Botany, 30, 287 

 Beaufln Apple. 222 

 Beautiful Orchids, 169 

 Beauty Carnation, 205 



" of Hants Apple, 270 



" " the Dandelion, 291 

 Beaver Dam, Wis., Catalpa 

 at, 182 [67, 99, 144 



Bedding Plants, Blue, .39, 



" " Some, 198 



Bees and Fruit, 81 



" " Grapes, 17 



" Drone, on the Wing, 213 

 Begonia Schniidtii, 12, 47, 76 

 Begonias, Tuberous R'l'd. 11 

 Bentley's Sweet Apple, 113, 

 147 [Flowers, 22 



Berkshire Hills, Autumn 

 Bermuda Grass, 7 290, 324 



" " and Lawns, 261 



" " Flowering of, 21 



Best Flav' d Straw berries, 244 



" Sou for Raspberry, 208 



Bignonia magnifica, a31, 332 



" venusta, 2:34 

 Bird Cherry, for Streets, 229 

 Birds and the Gardener, 115 

 Blackberries, Rust in, 176 



" White, 307 

 Blackherry, Lucretia, 305 



" McCracken. 269 [141 

 Black Flea on Heliotrope, 



" Grapes, Best. .366 



" Knot, Pacific C'st, 270 

 Blackman Plum, 82 

 Blodgett's Golden Cling, 334 

 Blood-leaved Peach, 32o 



Trees, 100 

 Blue Bedder, Browallia, 35 



" Bedding Plant, 39, 67, 99 



" Carpet Beduer, 140 



" Flowers for Massing, 37 

 Boilers, Hot Water, 104 



" Steam, Attendance, 168 

 Borders or Beds, 335 

 Borer, Flat-headed, 176 



" Sugar Maple, 277 

 Boss Waterm(!lon, 307 

 Boston & Vicinity, Hort., 96 



" Hardy Conifera near. 

 Botanical Index, 27 [227 



" Names, Hard, 186 



" Notes, New Jersey, 309 

 Botanic Gardens, Cam- 

 bridge, 22, 59 

 " Melbourne, 184 

 " St.Petersburg,.381 

 Botanist, Lucky, 57 [379 



Botanists, Early. Busts of, 

 Botany, Beal's New, 30, 287 



" in California, 123 



" " French Capital, 186 

 Bottle Tree, Australian, 123 

 Bottling Grapes, 146 

 Bouquet, A Royal, 12 

 Bouquets, Bridal, 139 



" Buttonhole, 73 



" in London Market, 170 

 Bouvardia, Double Rf d, 48 



" Pres. Garfield, 238 

 Box-gro^vn Strawben-y, 368 

 Bracts and Leaves, 22 

 Brenhara, Tex., Tree Growth 

 Bridal Bouquets, 139 [at, 244 

 British Columbia Timoer, 53 

 Browallia as Blue Bedder, 35 

 Brown's Gynura aurantiaca, 

 230, 266 [Convention,384 

 Brussels Horticulturists' 

 Budded Roses, 131, 293 

 Budding Pennyroyal, 134 

 Bulb Growing, Holland, 249 

 Burdock Roots, 116 

 Burr's Pine Strawberry, 305 

 Business of Jas. Vick, 2o4 

 Busts of Early Botanists. .379 

 Butterflies, Odor in, 57 

 Buttonhole Bouquets, 73 

 Buzzard, Note on, 182 



Cabbage, Early, How to 

 Grow, 304 

 " Lines on Head of, 64 

 Cactus Dahlia, 8 

 Caladium esculentum, 341 

 Caladiums, Experiments,360 

 Calceolaria crenatifolia, 300 

 Calendula officinalis meteor, 



40, 132 

 California, Botany in, 12:? 

 " Cook's Ranch, 101 

 " Eucalyptus in, 272 

 " Filberts in, 210 

 " Giant Tree, 345 

 " Grape for, :W [rope, 1:33 

 " Mammoth Tree in Eu- 

 " Nat'list, John Muir, 219 

 " Notes from, aS5 [155 

 " Nurseryman's Letter, 

 " Past Season in, 80 

 Calla Lily, Yellow, 298 

 Callicarpa Purpurea, 357 

 Calloway Cling Peach, 148 

 Calochortus, 21 [159 



Cambridge Bot. Garden, 22, 

 Camellia Bud Dropping, 109 

 " Culture, 44 

 " History of, 157 

 " Introduction of, 21 [271 

 Campbell's Triumph Grape, 



Canada, Encouragement of 

 Forestry. 340, 341 

 " English Spar-ow in, 270 

 " Forestry in, 308 [247 

 " Opuntia Raflnesqui in 

 '■ Tree Planting. :370 

 Canadian Apples, Sup'r, 209 

 The, 282 



„[81 



Candle, American, 

 Tree, 57 

 " Wax Tree, 277 

 Can Fruit Trees be Overfed, 

 Canis ferox cum Kettle- 

 bees, 156 

 Canna Nepalensis, 263 

 Carey Robt., Death of, 126 



" Disappearance of, 95 

 CaiTiation, Beauty, 205 

 Carnations, Detroit, 128,141. 

 190, 2.51 

 " Winter-flowering, 12 

 Carolina Jasmine, Dbl. 356 

 Caroline Raspberry, 208, 269 

 I Carpet Bedder, Blue, 140 

 j Castanea vesca, Origin of, 

 22:3,254 [\Vis., 182 



Catalpa at Beaver Dam, 

 Cats in Gardens, 228 

 Catsup, Tomato, 337 

 Cattle in Cities, 166 

 Cattleya Dowiana, 300 [268 

 CaulifloN.er, Early Forcing, 

 Cedar Lebanon, Introduc'n. 

 ■• N. Eng.. 3.57 [220 

 " White, 22 

 ! Celery and Onion Essays, 209 



" How I Grow, HI 

 I " To Keep Till Spring.366 

 I Celosia Clarkii, 2{)5, 300 



" President Thiers, :362 

 I Cemeteries, Rural, 133 

 j Centennial, Section of Se- 

 quoia at, 245 

 I Cephalotaxus Fortunii, 

 I Fruiting Male Tree, 348 



I Cercidophyllum Japonicum, 

 Oestrum, New, 141 [100 



i Chanute, Kan., Peach from, 

 I 338 



: Chapter on AVater Lilies, 32.5 

 i Cheap Paint, 292 

 1 " Plant Stand, 107 

 Chemistry of the Farm, 159 

 Cherokee Rose Legend, 289 

 Cherry, Indian, 166 

 j " Stocks, 210 

 ■ " Windsor, 208 

 i " Yellow Choke, 154, 187 

 Chesliunt Hybrid Rose, 1:32 

 Chestnut, 22:3, 254 

 " European tt Am., 223 

 i '• Oak for Leather. :370 

 I " Sweet, New Dwarf, 39 

 ' Chicago, Steam Heating 

 i around, 136, 173 



' Chickens, Mulberries for,116 

 1 Chief Signal Office, Annual 

 Report, 96 

 China, Ainer. Apples in, 305 

 " Daffodils in, 357 

 " Tree Planting. 370 

 Chinese Chrysanthemums 

 from Seed, 106 

 " Cling Peaches, 338 

 " Peach, Flat, 211, 270 

 " Primroses, Improv'd,74 

 ■ Varnish Tree, "" 

 irapes 

 j: Hya 

 Chrysanthemum, A 

 Hints, 38 

 " Culture. 40, 168 

 " Japanese from Seed,2(>2 

 Chrysanthemums, 73 

 " Chinese from Seed, 106 

 " Fine, 8 

 Churchman's Superb Rasp- 

 berry, 269, 306 

 Chysis Chelsonii, 185 

 Cicada septendecim, 274, 314 

 Cincinnati Floral Co., 9 

 " Forestry at, 245 

 " " Meeting, 84 



" Hort. Exhibition, 288 

 Cirrhopetalum medusae, 107 

 Cities, Cattle in, 166 

 " Frame Buildings in, ;341 



Choice Grapes, 115 

 Choosing Hyacinths, 12 



