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CONTENTS. 



FACE 



Seed Saving 168 



Rhubarb 170, 203 



Peas 172 



Hot-beds 175 



Original Recipea 176 



Cooking Vegetables 178 



Farmers, talie a Hint 182 



Mixing Paint and Laying it on 184 



Garden Weeds 189 



Lucerne 191 



Family Government 192 



List of Flowers, Seeds, and Fruits 193 



Garden Seeds 196 



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 21C 



Getting ready for AVinter 217 



Esculent Vegetables 219 



Field Root Crops 226 



Cultivation of Fruit-trees 226 



A List of Choice Fruits 283 



The Nursery Business 241 



The Breeding of Fruits 24-4 



Pruning Orchards 249 



Slitting the Baric of Trees 252 



Downing's Fruits of America 254 



Letter from A. J. Downing 201 



Attention to Orchards 266 



Wine and Horticulture 20S 



Do Varieties of Fruit Run out? 271 



Strawberries 275, 281, 2S6 



Raspberries, Gooseberries, Currants . . 286 



Spring Work in the Orchard 289 



Grapes and Grape Vinos 294, 295 



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Autumnal Management of Fruit-trees. 296 

 Pears Grafted upon the Apple Stock . 2i>8 



Seedlings from Budded Peaches 800 



Care of Peach-trees 303 



Renovating Peach-trees 804 



An Apologue or Apple-logue 306 



Select List of Apples 307 



Origin of some varieties of Fruit 823 



The Quince 825 



Cutting and Keeping Grafts 826 



Frost Blight 32T 



Seedling Fruits 829 



Time for Pruning ... 832 



Plums and their Enemies 835 



Root Grafting 339 



Blight and Insect.a . 841 



Apples for Hogs 846 



The Flower Garden 847 



Preparation of Seed for Sowing 861 



Sowing Flower Seeds— Transplanting. 803 

 Parlor Plants and Flowers in Winter . 854 



Protecting Plants in Winter 301 



To Preserve Dahlia Roots 802 



Hedges 863 



Watering Trees, etc 865 



Labels for Trees 306 



Tran3i)lanting Evergreens 807 



Flowers, Ladies and Angels 863 



Hoi'ticultural Curiosities 309 



The Corn Crop 873 



Potato Crop 333 



Potting Garden Plants for Winter Ue* 890 



Mary Howltt's Use of Flowers 891 



What are Flowers good for 393 



The Blight in the Pear-tree o03 



Progress of Horticulture in Indiana. . 411 



Browne's Poultry Yard 417 



Close of the Year 42'J 



