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CONTENTS OF THE JULY NUMBER. 



COMMUNICATIONS : 



Among the Flowers 



Growing Hedges 



Lawns 



Steam Heating 



Greenhouse Decorations 



Facts About Steam Heating 



Erica Cavendishii 



Tomatoes 



Odorous Hedges for Fruit Gardens 



Poisons as Insect Remedies in Vegetables. 



Fruit Culture la Southern California 



Forest Fires 



Lower California Botany 



Gardening in Kansas , 



A Convention of California Grape Growers 

 EDITORIAL NOTES : 



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Raising Gladioli from Seed— Trapping Insects . . 197 



Hot Water to Kill Insects— Gloxinia Seed 202 



Destroying the Cabbage CaterpUlar — Kieffer 

 Pear— Mr. Yeoman's Pear Orchard— Figs in the 

 Old World— The Dandelion— Japan Persimmons 

 —Fruit in Mexico— Sugar in Corn— Canning To- 

 matoes— TrufQes in Philadelphia— To Get Rid 



of Rats 209-210 



Forest Destruction in China— Forest Fires 213 



Expedition to Cape Horn— Destruction of Rare 

 Native Plants— The Annual Insect Crop— Creep- 

 ing Arums — A New Kentucky Coffee — Bees and 

 Honey— Failure of the Maple Sugar Crop— The 

 Discoverer of Beet Sugar — The Art which Pro- 

 duces a Cabbage— Sunken Forests— Concerning 

 Figs— Our Tulip Tree in China— Uses of Struct- 

 ures 214-218 



Specimens of Plants, Fruits and Flowers— Char- 



acter of Nurserymen — Horticulture in Spain — 

 A Raid on the Silver Maple— Enormous Fruit — 

 Hot Water Circulation in the Olden Time— The 

 History of the Amaryllis — History of the Grape 

 — Cinchonas in the Cape de Verd Islands — Com- 

 mencement of Cultivation — A Tertio-millennial 

 —Mr. H. H. Rushy— W. G. Burk— North Ameri- 

 can Mosses — Systematic Census of Australian 

 Plants— Insects Injurious to Fruits— The Bee- 

 keepers' Manual— Forestry 219-223 



Pennsylvania Horticultural Society— American 

 Pomological Society 224 



NEW OR RARE PLANTS : 



New Crested Ferns — Andromeda japonica — 



Magnolia stellata 197-198 



Camellia C. M. Hovey — Aphelandra punctata — 



Rose William AUan Richardson 202-2&4 



SCRAPS AND QUERIES : 



Rhododendrons not Blooming— Spiraea venusta 



—Salvia farinacea— Asphalt Walks 198-199 



Yellow Winter Blooming Carnation— Euonymus 

 japonicus — Double Abutilon — Double Helio- 

 trope—Seedling Geraniums — Heating a Small 



Plant Room or Greenhouse 204 



The Earliest Peaches South— The Primo Straw- 

 berry—Ridding Gardens of Moles 211 



The English Sparrow : " Crow-foot "—Frauds. . . 223 

 FLOWER GARDEN & PLEASURE GROUND, 193-199 

 GREENHOUSE AND HOUSE GARDENINQ. . . . . 199-204 



FRUIT AND VEGETABLE GARDENING 205-211 



FORESTRY 211-213 



NATURAL HISTORY AND SCIENCE 214-218 



LITERATURE, TRAVELS & PERSONAL NOTES 218-223 

 HORTICULTURAL SOCIETIES 224 



