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CHAS. H. MAROT, Publisher, 814 Chestnut St., Philadelphia- 



CONTENTS OF THE APRIL NUMBER. 



COMMUNICATIONS : 



A Retrospect of Summer 97 



Canna Ehmanni 98 



Flower-beds 99 



Hope for City Trees 1 100 



Steam Heating 102 



More About Steam Heating of Greenhouses 104 



Blistered Leaves in Greenhouse Plants 106 



Steam Heating 107 



A Visit to a Peach Orchard in Oyster Bay, Queens 



Co.,L. 1 110 



To Destroy Cabbage and Other "Worms 110 



Strawberry Runners 110 



The Schumaker Peach Ill 



Pear-tree Blight Ill 



Forests Succeeding Fires 117 



Observations on the Fertilization of Yucca, and on 

 Structural and Anatomical Peculiarities in 



Pronuba and Prodoxus 118 



Origin of the Prp,iries 119 



Caladium Esculentum, alias Tanyah, alias Eddoes. . 120 



Desultory Notes on the Dog Rose 121 



History of the Potato 122 



EDITORIAL NOTES : 



Strong-Rooted Perennials— Failure in Narcissus 

 and Daffodils— Rose Niphetos— Fine Old Judas 

 Tree— Gingko— The Ash as a Street Tree— Ever- 

 greens in the Shade— Rose Madame Boll— A 

 Long Island Gingko Tree— Hardy Cyclamens 



under Trees 100-101 



Flowers in Chicago— Insects on Flowers— Heat- 

 ing Greenhouses— New Inventions— C r o t o n 

 Leaves in Flower Glasses— The "Smilax," — Myr- 

 siphyllum asparagoides- Popular Cut Flowers in 

 France— Rose Caroline Goodrich— The Double 



White Bou vardia in Europe 107-108 



Irrigation — Mouse Traps— Over-bearing Pears — 

 Planting Dwarf Pears Below the Graft— School- 

 master Apple— Pyle's Red Winter Apple— Fruit- 



ing the Kieffer Pear — The Sand Pear for Stocks 

 — Cherry Trees in Japan— Strong Aspai-agus 

 Plants— Good Vegetables— Flat Chinese Peaches 

 — Profit in Cabbage— Elevations for Peach Grow- 

 ing 113-115 



The Future of the Wood Supply— Legislative 

 Forestry— Lombafdian Mulberry Trees— Valua- 

 ble Seeds 117-118 



Plants of the Catskill Mountains— Double Flow- 

 ers—Bottling Fruit— Hardy Cactuses 120-121 



Dangers of Plant Collectors— Warfa;re oH Daisies 

 — Mr. V. de Niedman — Pleasures of Camping 

 Life— Veitch's Manual of Coniferae— Arthur Bry- 

 ant 125-126 



Fertilizing Moss — The New York Horticultural 

 Society — Pennsylvania Horticultural Society. . . . 128 



SCRAPS AND QUERIES : 



Bedding Clematis— Raising Seeds of Herbaceous 



Plants 101 



Curcuma Roscoeana— Rose Etoile de Lyon— Car- 

 nation from " L. W. E.," Poughkeepsie, N. Y.. . 108 

 Grafting the Apple on the Pear— Budding Peach 

 Trees— Raising Seedling Fruits— Graf ting Pears 

 on the Hawthorn— Inquiry Concerning Canker- 



* worms 115-116 



Nymphsea Sturtevantii— Nymphaea flava 121 



"The Diamond Tuberose" Reply— A Grammati- 

 cal Query— Mistakes 127-128 



NEW OR RARE PLANTS : 



Crinodendron Hookerianum 108 



FLOWER GARDEN & PLEASURE GROUND, 97-102 



GREENHOUSE AND HOUSE GARDENING 102-109 



FRUIT AND VEGETABLE GARDENING 110-116 



FORESTRY 117-118 



NATURAL HISTORY AND SCIENCE 118-121 



LITERATURE, TRAVELS & PERSONAL NOTES 121-128 

 HORTICULTURAL SOCIETIES 128 



