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CONTENTS. 



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Seed Saving 168 



Rhubarb 170, 203 



Peas 172 



Hot-beds 175 



Original Recipes 176 



Cooking Vegetables 178 



Farmers, take a Hint 1S2 



Mixing Paint and Laying it on 184 



Garden Weeds 189 



Lucerne 191 



Family Government 192 



List of Flowers, Seeds, and Fruits 193 



Garden Seeds 19G 



Farmers Gardens 199 



Early Days of Spring 201 



Parlor Flowers 202 



A Salt Recipe 203 



Culture of Celery 204 



Sun-flower Seed 212 



Rich and Poor Land 216 



Getting ready for Winter 217 



Ksculent Vegetables 219 



Field Root Crops 225 



Cultivation of Fruit-trees 226 



4. List of Choice Fruits 288 



The Nursery Business 241 



The Breeding of Fruits 244 



Pruning Orchards 249 



Slitting the Bark of Trees 252 



Downing s Fruits of America 254 



Letter from A. J. Downing 201 



Attention to Orchards . . . 266 



Wine and Horticulture 268 



Do Varieties of Fruit Run out? 2T1 



Strawberries 275, 281, 286 



Raspberries, Gooseberries, Currants . . 286 



Spring Work in the Orchard 289 



Grapes and Grape Vinos 294, 295 



Autumnal Management of Fruit-trees . 296 

 Pears Grafted upon the Apple Stock . 298 



Seedlings from Budded Peaches 300 



Care of Peach-trees 803 



Renovating Peach-trees 304 



An Apologue or Apple-logue 306 



Select List of Apples 307 



Origin of some varieties of Fruit 828 



The Quince 325 



Cutting and Keeping Grafts 326 



Frost Blight 327 



Seedling Fruits 329 



Time for Pruning 332 



Plums and their Enemies 335 



Root Grafting 33!) 



Blight and Insects 341 



Apples for Hogs 346 



The Flower Garden 347 



Preparation of Seed for Sowing 351 



Sowing Flower Seeds Transplanting. 853 

 Parlor Plants and Flowers in Winter . 354 



Protecting Plants in Winter 3C1 



To Preserve Dahlia Roots 862 



Hedges 363 



Watering Trees, etc 365 



Labels for Trees 3G6 



Transplanting Evergreens 367 



Flowers, Ladies and Angels 368 



Horticultural Curiosities 369 



The Corn Crop 373 



Potato Crop 381 



Potting Garden Plants for Winter Use 890 



Mary Hewitt s Use of Flowers 391 



What are Flowei s good for 392 



The Blight in the Pear-tree 893 



Progress of Horticulture in Indiana. . 411 



Browne s Poultry Yard 417 



Close of the Year 420 



