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CONTENTS OF THE FEBRUARY NUMBER. 



SEASONABLE HINTS : 



Flower Garden and Pleasure Ground 33 



Greenhouse and House Gardening 38 



F^tiit amd Vegetable Gardening 44 



COMMUNICATIONS : 



The Government Grounds, Dominion of Canada 34 



The American Banner Rose 36 



Large Coxcomb >.... -39 



Carnation — James A. Garfield , 39 



Heating Greenhouses with Steam 39 



The Mealy Bug on Coleus 39 



The Lord Nelson Apple 45 



Improvement of the Persimmon 4.5 



Fruit Notes for 1882 46 



Cross-Breeding Wheat , 52 



Notice of the Late James Haggeitj', of Poughkeepsie 57 



Under the Hawthorns— No. U. 57 



EDITORIAL NOTES : 



The Philadelphia Public Squares — Notes from 

 Staunton, Virginia — Rapid Growing Street Trees — 

 The Spring Beauty of Coniferous Trees— The Sack 



or Bag- Worm 36-37 



Large Greenhouses — Lllium Harrisi — Electric 

 Light in Plant Growing— Fragrance of the Gar- 

 denia — Soil for Fuchsias— An Indoor Frame— Prize 

 Orchids— A Good Rose— A Good List of Green- 

 house Ferns — 40-41 



Bad Seeds — Phylloxera in France — Texan Pros- 

 perity — Autumn-bearing Raspberries — American 

 Apples in England — The Primo Strawberry— The 

 White- Fruited Versaillaise Currant— The Waste 

 Bones of a Large Citj' — Substitute for Cotton- 

 Dandelion Rum— Large Celery— Good Peas— The 

 Favorite Tomato— The Cabbage Butterfly— Orna- 

 mental Vegetables — Poison in Mushrooms 46-49 



Seeds or Plants for Starting Forests— Woods and 

 Forests of South Australia — Forestry Laws- 

 Duties on Mahogany and Rosewcod — Spark Ar- 

 restors— Habits ot tlie Aspen — Osage Orange for 



Silk Worms 50-52 



Spiial Growth— Evaporation from Dead Branches 

 — ^Double Tropaeolum, Hermine Grosshoff— De- 

 fence in Birds' Nests— American Habits of Earth- 

 worms— Xeranthemum annuum Superbissimum— 

 • Handsome Birds' Nests— Pine from the Arctic Re- 



gions — Formic Acid and Honey — City Smoke — 

 Variation in Cotton Plants— Wet'Weather and the 

 Growth of Trees— Absorption of Water by Roots— 

 Heliotropism in Sun-flowers — Crossed Asparagus — 

 OU from Pine— Fertilization of Flowers by Insect 

 Agency — Honey Dew — Tlie Lacquer Tree of Japan 



Migrations of Birds 52-56 



Gardening and Business— Giant Horse Tails — Sub- 

 Tropical Plants— The London Journal of Botany- 

 Varied Tastes in Food— Mss. Tj'pographical Errors 

 —Early Historj' of Garden Flowers— A Pleasant 

 Note from a Young Gardener— Sir Hugh Allan — 

 Joseph E. Johnson— The Regulative Action of 

 Birds on Insect Oscillation— Horticultural Direc- 

 tory for 18a3 59-63 



Premiums at Horticultural Exhibitions— Reports 

 of Horticultural Societies— Amateurs and Florists 

 —The American Pomological Society— Hall of the 

 New York Horticultural Society 64 



SCRAPS AND QUERIES : 



Raising Fine Seeds— Chrysanthemum Mayweod — 

 Fir Tree Oil— Seedling Carnations— Aiding the 



Draft of Flues 43-44 



Good Keeping Plums— Seedless Persimmon— Tan- 

 gerine Oranges— Boardman's Tree Painl^Seedling 



Pears from California 49-50 



To Intelligent Correspondents— Pores in the An- 

 nual Layer of Wood 63 



NEW OR RARE PLANTS AND FRUITS : 



A New Hawthorn- Canna Ehemanni— Ampelopsis 

 Japonica— The Double Eschscholtzia^Weigela Can- 

 dida 37-38 



The Diamond Tuberose— Odontoglossnm vexilla- 

 rium— A New Water Lilly— Camellias and Roses- 

 New Chinese Primula 41-43 



FLOWER GARDEN AND PLEASURE GROUND, 33-38 



GREENHOUSE AND HOUSE GARDENING 38-44 



FRUIT AND VEGETABLE GARDENING 44-60 



FORESTRY 50-52 



NATURAL HISTORY AND SCIENCE 52-56 



LITERATURE, TRAVELS & PERSONAL NOTES. . 67-63 

 HORTICULTURAL SOCIETIES 64 



