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CONTENTS. 



Echibitions of Uort'icuHural Soci/ties. — Essex 

 County Natural History Soc'y, 416; Mid- 

 dlesex County Horticultural Society, 457; 

 Worcester County Horticultural Society, 

 458; Horticultural Exliibition of the New 

 York State Agricultural Society, 465 ; 

 Fifteenth Annual Fair of the American 

 Institute — Horticultural Exhibition, 468. 



Retrospective Criticism. — The Linnjcan Bo- 

 tanic Garden and Nurseries, Flushing, 

 Jj. I., 109; The ljinna;an Botanic Garden 

 and Nurseries, 153; The wrong Name, 

 154; Clairmont Nursery near Baltimore, 

 J55; Hybridizing Camellias with the pol- 

 len of ditlerent varieties, 156; The Glout 

 Morceau Pear, 156; Linnipan Botanic Gar- 

 den and Nursery, Flushing, L. I., 196; 

 Camellia var. Covingtdni,;, 196; Caniell/a 

 var. Hempsteadij and Landrethii, 196; 

 The Garden and Grounds of the Presi- 

 dent's house, 190; Pennsylvania Horti- 

 cultural Society, 234j Fisher Professor- 



ship of Natural History in Harvard Uni- 

 versity, 234; Glout Morceau Pear, 235; 

 GloutMorceau Pear, 31-J; TuckermAnia 

 californica, 352; Producing good crops of 

 Strawberries, without regard to male and 

 female blossoms, 353 ; Glout Morceau 

 Pear, 429. 



Fancuil Hall JIfar/ceJ.— January. 38; Febru- 

 ary, 78; March. 118; April, 158; Mav, 

 198; June, 237; July, 278; August, 318; 

 September, 358; October, 398; November, 

 438; December, 471. 



Horticultural Memoranda. — January ,39; Feb- 

 ruary, 79; IMarch, 119; April, l'59; May, 

 199; June, 239; July, 280; August, 319; 

 September, 359; October, 399; November, 

 440; December, 47?. 



Obituary JVvtices. — William Prince, 238; 

 M. A. P. De Candolle, 239; Alymer 

 Bourke Lambert, 239; Archibald Men- 

 gies, 239; David Don, 239; Robert Man- 

 ning, 439. 



List of Plants in Vol. VIIL, P. 473. 



LIST OF ENGRAVINGS. 



FLOWERS. 

 Male Strawberry blossom, /o-. 8 

 Female Strawberry blossom, j^"-. 



DIAGRAMS. 



Plan showing the error in the common 

 mode of planting belts of trees, ^ff. 6 221 



Plan showing tlie picturesque mode of 

 planting belts of uees,Jig, 7 



258 

 258 



222 



FRUIT. 



Pears. 

 Queen of the Low Countries pear,^^. 1 59 



Uumortier pear,.^^. 2 a . . .61 



Passans du Portugal pear. /^. 2 & . 61 



Belle of Flanders pear, /g-, 3 . . 62 



Muscadine pear, Z^'. 4 . . - .63 



Plums. 



Columbia plum. /j^. 5 . . . .91 



LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS. 



A Fruit Grower . . . . 156. 312 



An Amateur 37 



An Amateur 134 



An Amateur, Philadelphia 137. 152. 156. 181. 



195. 196.228.233.334 



An Old Member ; . . . .224 



Allen, T 350. 353 



Beecher, Rev. H. W. . . . 403. 428 



Buist, R 271 



Callan,J. F 196 



Coit, D. W 406 



Dick, R 223. 227 



Downing, A. J 90. 120 



E. D. H". 152 



Editor 1. 13. 35. 37. 41. 57. 66. 74. 81. 90. 



97. 120. 129. 137. 161. 175. 195. 



212. 228. 233. 235. 249. 960 270. 



271. 286. 290. 292.294. 311. 324. 



334. 350. 351. 3G4. 409. 410.427 

 429. 430. 439. 445 



Elliott, C. W 427 



Ernst, A. H 362 



Garber, J. B • .173 



Gordon, Alexander . . .3.32.401 

 Gunnoll.J. S. . . . 171.175.196 



Hancock. T 3.50 



Harris, Dr. T.W 247 



Holmes, E. • . . . . 



Ives, J. M 



J. C. G. . 



Johnson, O 



Knevels,J. W 



Legare, J. D. .... 



Longworth,N. 168.257.404. 



Manning, R. . . .56.86 



M.T. 39.79. 119. 159.199. 



319.359 

 Philo Vitis . 

 Porter, John . 

 Prince, Alfred 

 Prince, W. R. 

 Russell, Prof. John Lewis 

 Russell, J. W. : 

 Saul, A. . . . 



Sinclair, R. . . . 

 S. W.T. 



. 155 

 . 73 



288. 321 

 . 201 

 . 169 

 . 51 



427. 428 



152. 981 

 238. 279. 

 . 399. 439 

 • 351 

 . 361 

 . 110 

 . 110 



130. 241 



. 53 



94,411 



. 156 



. 195 



Thorburn, George C 37 



Tucker, L 271 



W 47 



W 457 



Walker, Samuel • . . . 235. 430 



Watson, G 353 



Winter, Gabriel . . . .154. 106 

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