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CONTENTS OF THE AUGUST NUMBER. 



COMMUNICATIONS : 



Tropaeolum canariensis 22.5 



TheEglantine Rose 226 



Unworthy Novelties 226 



The Perils of Bee-keeping 226 



Remarks on Steam Heating 2.31 



The Manetti Rose 232 



Heating Greenhouses 232 



Fruit Culture in Southern California, concluded 2-36 



Early Peaches Unsatisfactory 2.39 



Hellebore for Destroying Insects 239 



Forest Fires, concluded 243 



Relations of Plants to National Prosperity 247 



On the Relations of Heat to the Sexes of Flowers.. . 248 



Editorial Letter 251 



How I Spent an Hour at LoriUard's Rural Retreat. . 252 



Champagne 2-54 



EDITORIAL NOTES : 



Rose Sidonie— Japan Maples — Improved Hepati- 

 cas — Pansies for Bedding— Zebra Grass— A 

 White Daphne Gwenka— Rosa rugosa— Cultiva- 

 ting the Japan Lily 22S-2.30 



Rose Triomphe d' Angers — Begonia Davisii— Ori- 

 gin of Modern Fashionable Floral Decorations — 

 Popular Love of Flowers— Dipladenia carissima 



—Begonia Weltpniensis 234-286 



An Economical Insecticide— Disease in Peach 

 Trees in California— Popular Strawberries— The 

 Currant of Commerce — Hardy Raspberries — 

 Preservuig and Drying Fruits — Cracking of 

 Pears— To Make Liquid Manure — The Date in 

 California— Fig Culture in California— Cucum- 

 bers in the Old World— Clapp's Favorite Pear — 



The Sunflower as an Industrial Plant — Quality 



of Pears— A Good Bee Plant 239-242 



The Eucalyptus in Florida— Location and Qual- 

 ity in Timber— Fuel in China— A Large Water- 

 Pitch Tree— Timber Trees of Engl?id— Value of 

 Locations in Timber Planting— Perfume from 

 Acacia— Figures in Forestry Planting— Timber 

 on the Pacific Coast— Clearing Ground of Stumps 245-246 

 Michaux Lectures — Removing Tendrils from 

 Grape Vines— An Interesting Arad — Favored 

 Climates— Variation of Plants 248-250 



William Brown — Samuel Kinsey 



American Pomological Society — Denison, Texas, 

 Horticultural Society— Michigan Horticultural 

 Society : Twelfth Annual Report— Georgia State 

 Horticultural Society : Eighth Annual Session. . 



SCRAPS AND QUERIES : 



Plants for Names— Clematis for Bedding— Japan 

 Maples— Seedling Clematis— Cercis Canadensis. . 

 Destrojang Cabbage Worms— Bloomsdale Pearl 



Onion 



Biennial Flowering of Native Orchids 



255 



256 



230 



242 

 250 



FLOWER GARDEN & PLEASURE GROUND, 22.5-230 



GREENHOUSE AND HOUSE GARDENING 231-236 



FRUIT AND VEGETABLE GARDENINQ 236-242 



FORESTRY 243-246 



NATURAL HISTORY AND SCIENCE 247-250 



LITERATURE, TRAVELS & PERSONAL NOTES 251-255 

 HORTICULTURAL SOCIETIES -. 256 



