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CONTENTS OF THE JANUARY NUMBER. 



SEASONABLE HINTS: 



Flower Garden and Pleasure Ground. 

 Greenhouse and House Gardening 



COMMUNICATIONS : 



Notes from ToiTington 



Gardening Notes from New Orleans 



Bouvardias 



Improvement in Acrocliniuni 



Cost of Steam Heating 



Pharbitis Learii 



Celery Culture 13 



Beet "Wine 14 



Some Reminiscences of the Caladium esculentuni 14 



Can Wheat be Cross-fertUized ? 19 



The Fertilization of Calopogon pulehellui> 19 



"lietter from M. Maurice Vilmorin, Paris, FranCf 25 



Acrostic Epitome of Horticulture 26 



EDITORIAL NOTES : 



Single Dahlias— Philadelphia Fairmount Park- 

 Roads and Ti-avcling Comtorts in China— Rose Ceu- 

 tenario des Camoens — New Golden Feverfew- 

 White Tigridia 'y-d 



Chrysanthemums at Fairmount Park, Philadelphia 



— Diamond Tuberose — Pottinc Plants 10-11 



A New "Yellows" Disease fn the Peach— Peach 

 Yellows Law of Michigan— Earliest Peaches in 

 Texas— Japau Persimmon in the South— Hardy Ap- 

 ples in Ohio— American Pear-hes iii Europe— The 

 Latest New Strawberries— Juglans Prseparturieus. 

 or Early Fruiting Walnut— The "Earliest of All" 

 Pea— Flax in Mexico— White Elephant Potato- 

 Feasts' Scuffle Cultivator 1'>-1" 



Forestry in America— Mahogany in San Domingo 

 —The Census Forestry Report of Virginia and West 



Virginia 17-lS 



On the Annual Growth of Wood— Male and Female 

 Flowers— Tubers fi-om Graf ted Tomatoes— The Hy- 

 brid Cotton Plant— Origin of the Treeless Prairies 

 —Temperature and Hardiness— Foretelling the 

 Weather by the White Pme— Colored Flowers in 

 the Carrot— Progress of Plant Knowledge— The 



Relation of Heat to the Sexes of Flowers— On 



Beauty in Birds' Nests 20-2.'> 



Portrait of Mr. Barry— SwindlingAgents— The Late 

 Mr. Edward Meehan— Return of Mr. and Mrs. Lem- 

 mon— Darley Dale — Dr. Asa Gray— Tithes in Can- 

 adar— The Tanyah and Abo— The Vir^n Mary's 

 Tree— The Eglantine— White Grapes--Legend of 

 the Rose — Napoleon Weeping Willow — The Olean- 

 der—History of the Lombardy Poplar— Travels of 

 the Indian Corn or Maize — Industrial Schools — Free 

 Railroad.s and Canals— New Chicago Florists' 

 Houses— Miller & Hunt, of Chicago— The Floral 

 Cabinet — Pennsylvania State Horticultural Asso- 

 ciation, 1882— Transactions of Massachusetts Hor- 

 ticultural Society, 1882 26-31 



Discriminative Premiums — Pennsylvania State 

 Horticultural SocieW— Our Present System of Com- 

 peting for Prizes— Hall of the New York Horticul- 

 tural Society '^ 



SCRAPS AND QUERIES : 



Euonymus radicans — Datura arborea — Trans- 

 planting Seasons ' 6 



Spruce Oil Liquid— Azalea Miss Buist— The Double 



Bouvardia •. 'S 



Oranges and the Weather in Florida— Lawsonia 



inermis -■' 



To Intelligent Correspondents— Fertilizing Moss- 

 Advertisements 31-32 



NEW OR RARE PLANTS AND FRUITS : 



Two Beautiful Leaf Plants : DielTenbachia Carderi 



and D. Leopoldii— Double Gloxinias 13-13 



FLOWER GARDEN AND PLEASURE GROUND, 1-6 



GREENHOUSE AND HOUSE GARDENING 6-13 



FRUIT AND VEGETABLE GARDENING 13-17 



FORESTRY '■ 17-18 



NATURAL HISTORY AND SCIENCE 19-25 



LITERATURE, TRAVELS & PERSONAL NOTES. . 25-32 

 HORTICULTURAL SOCIETIES 32 



