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CONTENTS OF THE OCTOBER NUMBER. 



COMMUNICATIONS : 



Japan Maples 



A Visit to the National Soldiers' Home, Dayton — 



Unworthy Novelties 



Planting "in Suitable Positions 



The Pearl Tuberose 



Notes on the September Number 



Gardening Notes from New Orleans 



Alsophila AustraUs 



Notes by James Leslie 



Steam Heating 



Culture of Perpetual Carnations in France 



Eucharis 



Limiting the Sizes of Flower Pots at Exhibitions. . . 



Stephanotis floribunda 



Dracaena Goldleana 



Notes from New Orleans 



Streptosolon Jamesoni 



Apples in Mexico and Texas 



Random Notes 



Our Best Tomatoes 



Fresh-water Sponges 



Editorial Letters 



H. B. EUwanger 



President WUder's Address 



EDITORIAL NOTES : 



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Prunus triloba— Stock for Grafting Roses— The 

 Drop or Bag-worm — Double Honeysuckle — A 

 Dwarf Stevia — A Double Lilium auratum — Rosa 

 lucida flore-peno — Azalea mollis — Picea Cephalo- 

 nica — Andromeda J aponica — Papaver umbrosum 292-293 

 New French Roses — Rose Niphetos — Steam 

 Heaters— Cut Flowers in America — Rose Cramoi- 



si Superieur— Schismatoglottis longispatha 298 



Covering Strawberries in Winter — Orange Cul- 

 ture in Florida — Apple Butter — American Black- 

 berries in England— Packing Apples for Export 

 —James Vick Strawberry— The Marlboro Rasp- 

 berry — Columbia Grape — How to Destroy the 

 Cabbage Worm— The Vegetable Garden at Frog- 

 more— Growing Water-cresses — Red Pepper m 



Texas 301-303 



Forestry in England — Fragrance of Abies Doug- 



lasii— Inverting Fence Posts— Red Gum— Trees i 



of Texas— Forests of Bananas— Mahogany — A 



Large Silver Fir— Forestry at St. Paul 805-306 



The Study of Sponges— Echinocactus Sileri— The 

 Banded Rush— A Monstrous Lilium auratum — 

 Mysteries of Evolution— Pulpit Horticultitre and 



Botany 309-311 



Nomenclature of Botany— University Gardens at 

 Berkeley, California — Pomological Honors — 

 H. E. Hooker Co.— The Langdon Nurseries of 

 I Mobile, Alabama — Kinsey's Nurseries, Dayton, 

 Ohio— Mr. Chas. B. Ott-Report of Fruit Growers' 

 Association of Ontario for 1882— The Naturalists' 

 Field Club Bulletin of Buffalo— The Hand Book 

 of Tennessee— Bari-y's Fruit Garden— A Book 

 About Roses— Gray's Synoptical Flora of North 

 America — Sportnian's Gazetteer and General 

 Guide— Dio Lewis's Monthly— Dr. C. C. Parry— 

 Dr. George Englemann— The Germantown Tele- 

 graph ~ . • • 315-817 



American Pomological Society and the Pennsyl- 

 vania Horticultural Society 320 



SCRAPS AND QUERIES : 



Large Sunflower.'*— Hydrangea panlculata gran- 

 diflora— Trees for Pleached Walks —Ailantus 

 glandulosus— Preserving Roses during Winter— 



The Elm Beetle 293-291 



Gynura a urantiaca— Trouble with a Tall Palm 298 

 Amelia Peach— Martin's Amber Wheat— English 

 Gooseberries from Seed— Fruits in Kansas— A 

 Prolific Grape Vine— Cabbage Worm— Precocity 



of Peaches— Purple Peach 804-305 



Duration of Railroad Ties 306-307 



Double Peach Leaf— Geographical Range of the 

 Bird's-foot Violet — Flowers out of Season — 

 Tubers on Potato Plants— The Botany of Texas . 311 



FLOWER GARDEN & PLEASURE GROUND, 289-294 



GREENHOUSE AND HOUSE GARDENING 294-299 



FRUIT AND VEGETABLE GARDENING 300-.303 



FORESTRY 30.5-307 



NATURAL HISTORY AND SCIENCE 307-311 



LITERATURE, TRAVELS & PERSONAL NOTES 312-317 

 HORTICULTURAL SOCIETIES 317-320 



