IV 



CONTENTS. 



and Hot-houscs, compared witli Hot- 

 warer, scientilically and practically 

 considered. 15y R. B. Leuchars 385. 436. 



481 



The Fruit Crop in Illinois ; Beautiful 

 Prairie Flowers; Fine Forest Trees; 

 Insects; Pear ami Apple Blislit. In a 

 Letter to Dr. E. \Viglit,Cor. Sec. Mass. 

 Hurt. .-^oc. Py Ur. .1. A. Kinnicott, 

 NorthfieKI, Illinois .... 



Notes and Uecollcclions of a Visit to the 

 Nurseries of .Messrs. Hovey & Co., 

 Cambridge. By Londoniensis 



433 



442 



HORTICULTURE. 



\ Chapter on Plantinii Trees. By Sam- 

 uel Walker, Esq., President of the 

 Massachusetts Horticultural Society 22 



The Frederica Bremer Pear : a new na- 

 tive Seedlins, with some Account of 

 its Oriftin, and an eutfraviu!; of the 

 Fruit. By Ur. VV. D. Brinckle, Phil- 

 adelphia 24 



The Diana Grape. By the Editor . . 23 



Descriptions and Engravings of Select 

 Varieties of Apples. By the Editor 



1. .lonathan, Esopus Sjiitzenberg, 

 Red Gillillower 60 



2. Gravensteiu, Duchess of OUIen- 

 buryh, Tuas 493 



Notes on some Varieties of Peas grown 

 in the Garden of tlie Horticidlural So- 

 cietv in lf:i9. By Robert Thompson, 

 Superintendent of the Orchard and 

 Kitchen Garden Department. From 

 the Journal of the London Horticultu- 

 ral Society 66 



Pruning the Gooseberry. By Mr. Robert 

 Thompson, Superintendent ot the Or- 

 chard and Kitchen Garden Department 

 of the London Horticultural Society, 

 with Remarks by the Editor . . 114 



Pomological Notices: or Notices respect- 

 ing new and superior Fruits, worthy 

 of general cultivation By the Editor 152 



How" to Prune the Currant. By Robert 

 Thompson, Superintendent of the Or- 

 chard and Kitchen Garden Department 

 of the London Horticultural Society . 160 



The Red Gillitlower and Cornish Gilli- 

 tiower Apples. By the Editor . . 198 



IIow to Prune the CiuinceTree. By Mr. 

 R. Thompson, Superintendent of the 

 Orchard and Kitchen Garden Depart- 

 ment of the London Horticultural So- 

 ciety. From the Gardener's Chronicle 203 



On the Cultivation of the High-bush 

 Blackberry ; with a Notice of the best 

 Wash for Fruit Trees. By Capt. Josi- 

 ah Lovett, Beverlv, Mass. . . . 261 



(low to Prune the Apple. By R. Thomp- 

 son, Superintendent of the Orchard and 

 Kitchen Garden Department of the 

 London Horticultural Society. From 

 the Gardeners' Chronicle . . . 261 



The Second Session of the Congress of 

 Fruit Growers at New York. By the 

 Editor 294 



How to Prune the Filbert. By Mr. R. 

 Thompson, Superintendent of the Or- 

 chard and Kitchen Garden Department 

 of the London Horticultural Society. 

 From the Gardeners' Chronicle . . 306 



Descriptions and Engravings of Select 

 Varieties of Pears. By the Editor 



1. Beurr^ Langelier, Beurri Gou- 

 bault, Styrian, Belle Epine Dumas, 

 While Doyenne, Brown Beurr^ . • 337 



Root-Pruning the Pear and other Fruit 

 Trees. From the Gardeners' Chronicle 351 



Descriptions and Engravings of Select 

 Varieties of Cherries. By the Editor 



1. Eltnn, Early Purple Guigne, Wer- 

 der's Early Black Heart . . .389 



2. New large lilack Bigarrean, Belle 



of Orleans, Klack Bigarrean of Savoy . 538 



Remarks on Dwarfing Fruit Trees. By 

 R. Errington. With Uemarks, by the 

 Editor 393 



Salt and Lime for the Curculio. By C. 

 Goodrich, Esq., Burlington, Vt. . . 447 



Description of a New Seedling .Apple, 

 called Rough and Ready, with some 

 Account ol its llislory, and an Engrav- 

 ing of the Fruit. By Charles P. Cowles, 

 Esq., of Syracuse, N . Y. With a Note 

 by the Editor 450 



Descriptions and Engravings of Select 

 Varieties o( Pluiris. By the Editor 



1. .lefferson, Imperial Gage, Mac 

 Laughlin, Purple Favorite . . . 452 



Observations on the Culture of Taxodi- 

 um sempervirens. By M. Desportes, 

 of M. Andre Leroy's Nursery, Angers, 

 France. 495 



Hints respecting the Summer Treatment 

 of Fruit Trees. By an Old Fruit Culti- 

 vator 487 



Descriptions and Engravings of three new 

 Varieties of Pears. By M. Desportes, 

 of .\I. Leroy's Nursery, Angers, France 489 



PomologicalGossip. By the Editor, 34.70. 

 113. 164. 271. 313. .356. 402. 157. 497. 544 



Some account of the production of the 

 Old Colonv Sweet Corn, its culture, 

 &c. By Rev. A. R. Pope, Somerville . 529 



IIow to grow good Asparagus. By Dr. 

 Lindlev. From the Gardeners' Chron- 

 icle. ' 533 



Some account of two new varieties of 

 Apples, with Engravings of the Fruit. 

 By the Editor 541 



How to raise Isabella Grapes. From the 

 Maine Fartner 548 



Notes on Gardens and Nurseries, 406. 461 



FLORICULTURE. 



Propagation ofPlants by Cuttinps. By 

 William Saunders, New Haven, Conn. 123 



Troptpolum Lobbianum. By T., New 

 York 129 



Heliotrope Souvenir de Liege,and Descrip- 

 tions of six new Cinerarias. By .lohn 

 Cadness, Commercial Gardens, Flush- 

 ing, L. 1 167 



Some additional Remarks on Vaccinium 

 Vitis-Id.-ea. By John Lewis Russell, 

 Professor of Botany, Ac, to the Mas- 

 sachusetts Horticultural Society. . 169 



Descriptive Account of fourteen New 

 and Beautiful Varieties of the Phlox. 

 By the Editor 172 



Nemophila maculata. Bv the Editor . 174 



The Culture of the C.iniellia. By Mr. 

 R. Errington. From Paxton's Magazine 

 of Botanv 307 



