iv Contents of Volume IX. 



Autumn Foliage. 341 



Avocat Allard Pear Englishjournal of Horticulture. 30 



Azaleas. ...... Gardener s Chronicle. . . 154 



Barberry and Wheat Rust. . . . Nature 124 



Basket Plants Floral World. . . 282, 378 



Baskets, Peach. . . . • . Benton Harbor Palladium. . 279 



Battles, Effect of, on Vegetation. . Boston Daily Advertiser. . 248 



Bean, Dwarf Waxen-podded, White-seeded. /^?a;'/«_^ jSm;'^ .... 12 



Beans, Forwarding Lima. . . . B. G. S. . . . . . 113 



" Lima, in California. 245 



" " without Stakes. . . Western Farmer. . . . 275 



Bean Vine and the Sun. .... Rural Carolinian. . . . 241 



Bearing Year in Apples. . . . y. C 115 



Bedding Plants. 150 



" " R.P. 182 



Bedding Plants, Distribution of. 344 



Bees and Raspberries. .... Practical Farmer. . . . 306 



Beet, Egyptian. ..... Fearing Burr. .... 70 



Beets. ....... Alexattder Hyde. . . . 172 



Begonia Chelsoni. ..... Florist and Pomologist. . . 379 



Begonias, New Flowering. . . . Gardener's Magazine. . . 89 



" Raising from Leaves. . . Floral World. .... 345 



Ben Davis Apple 79 



Best Pear. . ' . . ' . 85 



" Potatoes. ..... American Agricultural Annual. 149 



Beurre de Fromentel Pear. . . . Gardener s Magazine. . . 251 



Beurre Spence, Is there a.? . . . Charles Doivning. . . . 147 



Big Pear 87 



Big Tree of California 85 



" Bismarck." 83 



Black Alder, or Winterberry 24 



Blackberry Bushes, Cutting away the old 



Wood of. .... . Sereno Edwards Todd. . . 271 



Blackberry, Kittatinny. ..........: 330 



Bleeding of Grape Vines. . . . Gardener's Chronicle. . . 316 



Blight in Pear Trees, Iron for the. . . Rural Messenger, . . . 276 



Blight, Leaf, in Pear Trees. . . Rural Southland. . . . 2U 



Blight or Mildew, To prevent from injur- 

 ing Orchards 278 



Blight, Pear, in Mississippi. . . . W. Cunningham. . . . 244 



Blueberry, The High Bush. . . . Report of lovja State Hort. Soc. 182 



Blue Glass. Robert Buist. . . . 225, 263 



Bombardment of Paris. . . . London Times. . . . 152 



Borers, Apple and Peach Tree. . . M. B. Bateham. . . . 303 



Borer, The Apple Tree. . . . J. M. B. . . . . 134 

 Bottom Heat, Advantages of, on a Large 



Scale English journal of Horticulture. 93 



Bougainvilleas, etc . 273 



Bradshaw Plum 340 



Budding. .............. 201 



Bulbs 146 



Bunch of Grapes Fern 86 



Burning out Stumps Rural Carolinian. . . . 243 



Bussey School of Agriculture and Horti- 

 culture. 206 



Buying Trees 83 



Cabbages • . Alexander Hyde. . . . 358 



Caladiums Gardener's Record. . . .121 



California and Oregon, Notes of a Trip to. % A. Donaldson. . . . 328 



Calochortus Leichtlinii Gardener's Chronicle. . . 217 



Canker Worms. 309 



" " Protecting Trees from. T. C. Thurlow 74 



