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CONTENTS OF THE MAY NUMBER. 



COMMUNICATIONS : 



Random Jottings 



Staphylea Bumalda 



The True Egyptian Lotus Hardy. 

 Shade Trees , 



Notes 



Grafting Roses 



Rooting Carnations in April 



A Warning to Florists 



Deutzia gracilis for Pot Culture 



Roses in XVinter 



A Few Remarks on Steam Heating 



Progress of JSforthern Sugar Making 



Introducing New Fruits 



The Need of California 



Rambling Notes of Fruits and Trees 



When Shall We Break Land in the Spring ? 



Are All Mushrooms More or Less Poisonous ? 



Crataegus brachyaeantha 



Some Plants of Montgomery County, Kansas 



The Law of Variability 



The New Botanic Apartments at Cornell University, 



Ithaca, N. Y 



On the Absence of Trees from the Prairies 



Food of the Indians 



Under the Willows at St. Helena 



Legal Notes 



Improvement of Young Gardeners 



Rhus toxicodendron versus Ampelopsis japonica. . . 



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EDITORIAL NOTES : 



Fine Pansies— Lime Water for Insects— Roses by 



Seed— Clematises as Isolated Specimens 132-1-33 



Early Blooming of Seedling Azaleas — Begonia 

 Davisi — Greenhouses of Cornell University — 

 Steam Heating — Culture of Winter Floweruig 

 Begonias— Origin of Safrano Rose — Rules for 



Burning Coke 137-139 



Pistillate Strawberries— Strawberries in England 

 — Strawberries in Europe — New Strawberries — 

 Raising New Strawberries- Garden Culture of 

 the Strawberry — Degeneracy of Strawberries — 

 A Perfect Strawberry — Layering Boxes — Profits 



of Vegetable Culture' in Texas 144-145 



Free Lumber— Canadian Lumber— The Locust 

 Borer in Ohio— The Largest American Trees — 

 Wood of the Black Jack Oak — Timber of the 



China Tree— Pine Trees in Texas— Sun Dried 

 Wood— Variability of Duration in Timber— Pars- 

 ley Leaved Hawthorn 146-147 



On the Larvae of the Codling Moth— New Hybrid 

 Silk Moth— Rosa minutifolia— The Name Arbor- 



vitae 152 



Exaggerated Introductions of New Fruits — "The 

 Eucalyptus of the Future" — Influence of the 

 Gardeners' Monthly— Objectionable Names 

 for Fruits — Caragana — Old Fashioned Roses — 

 Mayor King, of Philadelphia— Walter Elder- 

 Daniel B. Smith— First Annual Report of the 

 Chief Executive Viticultural Officer of the State 

 Viticultural Commis.<ioners of California for the 

 year 1881— Report of Michigan State Poniologieal 

 Society— Bulletin of the Buffalo Naturalists' 



Field Club 1.56-1-59 



The American NurserjTnen's Association— Penn- 

 sylvania Horticultural Society— Points of a Good 

 Rose— Tree-planting and Fountain Society of 

 Brooklyn— Limiting the Size of Pots in Com- 

 petition 159-160 



SCRAPS AND QUERIES : 



Roses in Autumn— Chrysanthemum Mrs. Dr. 

 Vertres— Poplar Trees— Lawns and Evergreens.. 13-3-134 

 Richardia hastata— Fruiting of a Lemon Tree— 

 The Gro^vth of Trees in Catalogues— A Striped 



Agrippina Rose 139-140 



Pteris tremula— Geography of Some American 



Plants— Poison on Cabbages 152-153 



Horticultural Societies — Texas Horticultural 

 Societv— Mississippi VaUey Horticultural Soci- 

 ety—American Pomological Society 160 



NEW OR RARE PLANTS : 



Panax plumatum— Streptosolen Jemesoni 



140 



FLOWER GARDEN & PLEASURE GROUND, 129-134 



GREENHOUSE AND HOUSE GARDENING 134-140 



FRUIT AND VEGETABLE GARDENING 141-145 



FORESTRY 146-147 



NATURAL HISTORY AND SCIENCE 147-153 



LITERATURE, TRAVELS & PERSONAL NOTES 153-159 

 HORTICULTURAL SOCIETIES 1-59-160 



