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CONTENTS OF THE SEPTEMBER NUMBER. 



COMMUNICATIONS : 



A Few Rare Plants and Shrubs 



Some July Blooming Perennials 



Cornus Alternifolia 



Memorials 



Clematis coccinea 



Bilbergia thyrsoidea 



Hot "Water better than Steam Heating 



The Draft of Flues 



Hints on New and Rare Plants, etc 



Merveille de Lyon Rose 



How to Clean a Common Flue 



New Early Peaches 



Two Good Apples 



Philadelphia Market-gardening and Seed Growing. 



The Maple Sugar Crop 



Effects of Cross-fertUization on Fruit 



How the Young Plant starts into Life 



Editorial Letters, I 



" " II. 



Under the Sashes and Under the Sod 



New Facts Wanted 



Landscape Gardening Applied to Cemeteries 



EDITORIAL NOTES : 



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Culture of the English Ivy— Improvement of 

 American Violets— The Hackberry as a Street 

 Tree— Winter Treatment of Roses— Chinese Cem- 

 eteries—The Best Time for Planting — Garrya 



elliptica 259-261 



Adiantum tetraphyllum gracile— Todeas at Glas- 

 nevin— A High-priced Rose Coming to Philadel- 

 phia—Double Flowers— Insects 265-266 



Success in Business— Peaches in California— The 



Californian Walnut— Variations in Pears— Apples 

 as Food— La Fameuse Apples— Hardy Apples- 

 Pear Growing in the West— Crossing Pears— Red 

 Bietigheimer Apple— York Imperial Apple— En- 

 silage in Mexico— Fungus on the Fameuse 271-272 



Black Birch— Fire-proof Paint— The White Pine 

 —The Larch in Europe— Timber Under British 

 Control— Value of the Mesquite— The Value of 

 Timber— Value of Crooked Timber— The Ameri- 

 can Plane or Sycamore Tree 273-274 



Possible Impossibilities— Practical Diffusion of 

 Agricultural Science— Camassia esculenta var. 

 Leichtlinii— Bad Setting Grapes— Adaptation in 

 Nature— Fruiting of the Calycanthus— A disease 



from Reeds— Crossing Aquilegias 276-278 



The Editor's Journey— Dr. John A. Warder— H. 

 B. EUwanger— Astragalus canariensis- Reward- 

 ing Inventors— Select Plants for Industrial Cult- 

 ure—Credit to the Late J. C. Louden 285-287 



Nurserymen's Convention— American Pomologi- 



cal Society— Nineteenth Session 288 



SCRAPS AND QUERIES : 



Flowering of the Victoria Lily— Laurel Oak 261 



Stigmaphyllum ciliatum— Seedling Coleus 266-267 



Price's Early Peach 272 



FLOWER GARDEN & PLEASURE GROUND, 257-261 



GREENHOUSE AND HOUSE GARDENING 261-267 



FRUIT AND VEGETABLE GARDENING 267-272 



FORESTRY 273-274 



NATURAL HISTORY AND SCIENCE 274-278 



LITERATURE, TRAVELS & PERSONAL NOTES 27*-287 

 HORTICULTURAL SOCIETIES 288 



