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CONTENTS OF THE NOVEMBER NUMBER. 



SEASONABLE HINTS : 



Flower Garden and Pleasure Ground 321-322 



Greenhouse and House Gardening 326-327 



Fruit and Vegetable Gardening 333-3:54 



COMMUNICATIONS : 



Close Trimmed Trees 322 



A Few Flower Notes : . . . . 323 



Hydrangea Panieulata 324 



Bermuda Grass 324 



Gloxinia and its Culture 327 



Hardenbergia Comptoniana . 328 



Natural Hanging Baskets and Epergenes 329 



A History of Some City Peach Trees 334 



Grape Culture Under Glass 335 



Silk Culture in Nebraska 339 



Caladium Esculentum.— Nymphaea Ampla 



Insects in Pitchers of Nepenthes 



Is the Kalmia Poisonous? 



Influence of Pollen in Cross-Fertilizing 



The Romance of Herbacea 



History of the Peach in America 



Fruiting of a Male Tree of Cephalotaxus Fortunii. . . 348 



EDITORIAL NOTES : 



The Blood-leaved Peach— Tuberoses— Florida Yel- 

 low Water LUy 32-5 



Lapageria rosea and alba— Cypripedium insigne— 



Pruning Marechal Niel Rose 330-331 



New White Grapes— Dandelions— Tomato Cat- 

 sup 336-337 



Arguments for Tree Planting— Forest Fires— En- 

 couragement of Forestry in Canada— Frame 

 Buildings in Cities— Forests of the Wabash Val- 

 ley—Insect Borers in the Yellow Locust— For- 

 estry in Canada 340-341 



The Hybrid Cotton— Death and Birth of New 

 Species of Plants— Nepenthes Madagascariensis 

 —The Giant Tree of California— Origin of the 



Treeless Prairies 343-345 



Intelligent Correspondents— Silk Culture in the 

 South— Testimonial to the Kieffer Pear— Kenil- 

 worth Ivy— Hiram Sibley— The Farm Journal- 

 Express Packages for the Editor— Elihu Hall- 

 Edward J. Hooper— Joseph Sherfy— American 



Journal of Forestry 348-352 



The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society— The 

 Mississippi Valley Horticultural Society— Penn- 

 sylvania State Horticultural Society 351-352 



SCRAPS AND QUERIES : 



Nandine Tree— A Chapter on Water Lilies 32-5-326 



Apples from Mecklenburg County, N. C— Pear 

 from Wisconsin — Sprouting of Pear Roots— 

 Le Conte Pear- Chinese Cling Peaches— Colonel 

 McFarland's Late Peach— Peach from Chanute, 

 Kansas— Moore's Early Grape— The Triumph 

 Grape— Jessica Grape— A New Plum— Kelsey's 



Japan Plum-^James Vick Strawberry 



Truflaes — Sheep and Kalmia— Use for Yucca 

 Leaves 



NEW OR RARE PLANTS AND FRUITS : 

 Bignonia magnifica 



345 



FLOWER GARDEN AND PLEASURE GROUND,321- 

 GREENHOUSE AND HOUSE GARDENING. 

 FRUIT AND VEGETABLE GARDENING.... 



FORESTRY 339-341 



NATURAL HISTORY AND SCIENCE 341-345 



LITERATURE, TRAVELS* PERSONAL NOTES 346-351 

 HORTICULTURAL SOCIETIES 



