ILLUSTRATIONS. 



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JANUARY I 



Coleus Setting Sun 6 



Coleus Princess Royal 7 



Downing's Seedling Gooseberry. ........ 17 



Campanula Loreyi. ............ 25 



Downing's Early Turnip Beet. ......... 33 



Notes and Gleanings. ........... 35 



Primula pedemontana. .......... 49 



Fig Culture, Figs, i to 7 5i> 53 



Beurre Lade Pear. ........... 55 



Editors' Letter-Box. 61 



"JPEBRUARY 66 



-*- Alton Nutmeg Melon. 71 



Sam Brown Pear. ............ 79 



Platycodon grandiflorum. .......... 87 



Grafting the Cherry. ........... 96 



Notes and Gleanings. ........... 97 



Variegated Ivy in Hanging Basket. ........ iii 



Josephine de Binche Pear. .......... 113 



Clerodendron speciosum hybridum. . . . . . . . .119 



Acanthus latifolius. ........... 123 



Editors' Letter-Box 124 



ly/TARCH 129 



-'■'-'■ Group of Solanums. ......... 139 



Bresee's No. 7 Potato 145 



Dr. Nicaise Strawberry 154 



Stinger Strawberry i^^ 



Michigan Seedling Strawberry 151J 



Bijou Strawberry. ............ 156 



Emma Strawberry 156 



Ambrosia Strawberry. .....,.,,.. 157 



Notes and Gleanings. 161 



Self-supporting Horizontal Cordon. ........ 175 



Young Cordon of the Lady Apple trained as an Edging. . . . 177 



Reinette du Canada trained as a Cordon. ....... 177 



Simple Horizontal Cordon 17S 



Cordon planted too thickly. .......... 179 



Improved Watering-Can 1S3 



Editors" Letter-Box 189 



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