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Index. 



Rose, Binqui, new tea 207 



chafer, to get lid of 55 



Cong'i'ess 189 



Gen. Von Moltke 183 



Hybrid Perpetual 67 



James Sprunt, new 262 



Madame Ti-ifle 232 



new button-hole 280 



new climbing' monthly 69 



new hybrid bour l)on 68 



new Tea 311 



Peach Blossom, new 280 



slip, growth of a 125 



slugs, to destroy 238 



''The Cloth of Gold" 112 



the coming 199» 



white Tea 68 



Roses 35, 61, 89, 299 



best six varieties, liardy 104 



best twelve varieties 104 



evei'greens, shrubs and plants, que- 

 ries about 236 



for ribbon beds 113 



Madame Francois Janin 184 



Marshal Niel 134 



mildew on 155 



new 39 



planting 109 



pot 289 



pruning 63, 301 



selected list, hybrid peii^etuals 270 



tender 260 



ti-aining 206 



transplanting 302 



imder glass, best - 199 



Rui-al joui'iialism 347 



pursuits, the progress and influence of, 130 



s. 



Sage, scarlet 262 



Salad, a new winter 338 



Salvia gesneraillora 199 



new . 107 



splendens alba 68 



splendens 359 



Saxifraga longifolia 153 



Saxifrage, early 239 



Scientific degrees 288 



Seeds, germinating power 178 



the effects of camphor on 320 



the temperature to germinate 316 



transpoi'tation of 128 



Shade frees 29,53,234, 304 



trees in Paris, cost of , 220 



Shakespeare's knowledge of horticulture .... 349 



Shaw's gai'dens, St. Louis . . , , 226 



Shrubs, climbing 62 



deciduous, new and rare 104 



dwarf 177 



flowering 249 



'flowering, best twelve 104 



old fashioned 143 



ornamental 103 



ornamental berry-bearing 7 



ornamental, care of 6 



popular flowering 80, 109 



Silk worm cocoons, length of thread in 288 



Slugs, i-emedy for 148 



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Small beds 113 



Snow as protection against frost, a covering of, 223 



Soil, what of 15 



Sophoia, weeping 1 66 



Spirea japonica aurea variegata 280 



Spruce — pyramidalis, Wales weeping. Orien- 

 tal, Menzies, Black, Hemlock 37 



cone ornament 287 



the, and its culture 37 



Spj'uces 333 



Strawberries 146,317, 368 



canning 307 



Delaware 253, 254 



Durand's 253 



enormous shipment of 285 



planting 131 



prefei-red list .■ 55 



pnces of 316 



salt for , 58 



bed, pi'ofusely-yieMing 42 



Strawberry cultui-e, the pleasures of 254 



beds, mowing 285 



fertilizer 273 



notes, from Kentucky 213 



the Charles Downing 308 



Sub-Rosa 221 



Sublime to the ridiculous, from the 254 



Subtropical bed 265, 365 



bed, a circular 265 



Succulent plants 93 



Sulphate of ircm on vegetables, effects of 223 



Sweet peas 108 



T. 



Table decorations 343 



Tacsonia Buclianani 196 



exoniensis 359 



Tamarix plumosa 107 



Taxus or Yew 332 



Thunbergia Hari-isii 1 96 



Tillandsia Zaiinii 183 



Timber interest, protecting the 152 



Toails, pet .' 96 



Tomato, Tropli y 178 



Toi-rey, Dr., became a botanist, how 222 



Transplanting 210 



Tree, an ancient 2.54 



a rapid growing 151 



Trees, best, for Western tree planting 284 



curious 352 



deciduous, for lawns 104 



deciduous, new and rare 103 



demand for seeds of famous 255 



for small cemetery lots 105 



gi-owth of foi-est 256 



hints about 272 



how tht-y keep 26 



in England, destruction of 288 



large 93 



ornannental 103 



ornamental, when to plant 105 



planting, errors in 26 



poetry of 27 



small 178 



weeping 268 



Tropaeolum Cooperi 199 



tricolorum 162 



Tropical vegetation 223 



