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CONTENTS OF THE JUNE NUMBER. 



COMMUNICATIONS : 



Among the Flowers 



Improved Polyantha Roses 



Notes from Virginia 



Climbing Plants— Ampelopsis 



Steam Heating 



Cvpripediums 



Heating Plant houses 



Heating by Steam 



Decorated" Napkin Rings 



French Chestnuts 



Influence of Stock on Graft and of Graft on Stock. . 



Manures 



Grafting the Grapevine on the L' Eglantier (Dog 



Rose) 



Hybridizing Araceous Plants 



The Motion of Roots 



In Memoriam 



EDITORIAL NOTES : 



Double Tuberoses— City Squares for Philadel- 

 phia — Cercis Japonica— Azalea Mollis — A Graft- 

 ed Rose— Roses Grafted on the Manetti Stock- 

 White Pyrus Japonica— lilium Harrisi— Forsy- 



thia suspensa— Paris Green on Large Trees 



Hot Water to Kill Insects— Leea amabilis— To- 

 bacco Water for Insects— Rose Madam Gabriel 



Luizet— Pedigree Roses 



Degeneracy in Strawberries — Soil and Quality 

 in Strawberries— Deterioration of the Wilson 

 Strawberr%— Stewed Raspberries— Russian Cur- 

 rants—The Cherry and La Versaillaise Currants 

 —Overbearing Pears— Melons Not an Exhaust- 

 ive Crop— The Prentiss Grape- Thinning Fruit 

 — Plums in Russia— Peathes in Illinois— Im- 

 proved Blackberries — Barbed Wire Fences- 

 Vegetable Growing in the South— Fruits .and 

 Vegetables at Charleston— Market Gardening 



Near New Orleans 



Spare the Forests— Floods and Forests— De- 

 struction of Forests in Mississippi— A Great 

 Planter of Trees— Tree-planting in Kansas— Re- 

 sponsibility of Railroad Companies for Burning 

 Forests— Box Forests — Pine Lands in North 

 Carolina — Growth of Catalpa speciosa— Timber 

 on the Prairies — Kansas Forests 



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Hybrids— Glucose— A New Fungus on the Pea— 

 A Moving Mountain— Poisoned by Lima Bean 



Roots....? 184-186 



The Force of Habit— The Tallest Nurseryman in 

 the United States— Origin of the Purple Birch- 

 Origin of the Manetti Rose— Cats in a Bom- 

 barded Citv— The Origin of Cultivated Plants- 

 Annual Report of the N. J. State Geologist, 1883 

 —Worcester Countv (Mass.) Horticultural So- 

 cietv: Transactions" for 1883 — The Scientific 

 Angler — Bacteria — Reports on Experiments, 

 Chieflv with Kerosene, on the Orange and Cot- 

 ton Plant Insects— Truck Farming in the South 

 —Some Microscopic Distinctions Between Good 

 and Bad Timber of the Same Species— Practical 

 Hints on Rifle Practice with Military Arms— 

 Geo. Peters, of Trov. Ohio— John Sherwood— 



Adolph Straiich— Charles Arnold 187-191 



American Pomologieal Society : Nineteenth Ses- 

 sion— Pennsvlvania Horticultural Society— New 

 York Horticultural Society— Mississippi Valley 

 Horticultural Society— Hall of the New York 

 Horticultural Society 191-192 



^ SCRAPS AND QUERIES : 



i Laurel Oak— The Japan Snowball— -A.mong the 

 Flowers— Disappearance of the Nelumbium— 



Variegated Celery 



Rose Etoile de Lvon— Rose MerveiUe de Lyon— 

 Hot Water for feicklv Plants— Rose Catharine 

 Mermet— Carnation Albani— Double New Life 



Geranium 



Qualitv of the Kieffer Pear— Early Bearing Pear 



Trees- Highland Beauty Apple 



Russian Mulberry 



Hardiness of Evergreens • 



165-166 



171-172 



177-178 



180-181 



186 



FLOWER GARDEN & PLEASURE GROUND, 162-166 



166-172 



172-178 



178-181 



181-186 



18&-191 



191-192 



GREENHOUSE AND HOUSE GARDENTNQ 



175-177 FRXJIT AND VEGETABLE GARDENING 



FORESTRY 



NATURAL HISTORY AND SCIENCE 



LITERATURE, TRAVELS & PERSONAL NOTES 

 178-180 ' HORTICULTURAL SOCIETIES 



