CONTENTS. 



Floricultiiral and Botanical Notices of 

 New and Beautiful Plants: witli de- 

 scriptions of those more recently intro- 

 duced to, or originated in, American 

 Gardens, .... 220. 31.7. 507 



Descriptions of ten new Verbenas. By 

 the Kditor 275 



Cult ivation of the Cyclamen. By Vanes- 

 sa 317 



On the Cultivation of American Plants, 

 the Rhododendron, Azalea, ic. By 



Messrs. Standish & Noble, BagKhot, 

 near London. From the Gardeners' 

 Chronicle. With Remarks by the Edi- 

 tor 



Cultivation of Tr()pa;olums. By VV. 

 Saunders, Gardener to J. Hopkins, 

 Esq., Clidon Park, Baltimore 



On the Cultivation of the Scarlet Pelar- 

 gonium in Pots, liy Philip Conway. 

 From the Journal of the London Hor- 

 ticultural Society 503 



359 



500 



REVIEW. 



The Farmer's Guide to Scientific and 

 Practical Agriculture. By Henry Ste- 

 phens, F. R. S. E., author of the Book 

 of the Farm, &c., &c., assisted by John 



P. Norton, A. M., Professor of Scien- 

 tiflc .\griculture in Yale College, New 

 Haven. Nos. 1 to 8 . . . . 463 



MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



General Notices. 

 On the culture of Mignonette in Pots, 79 ' 

 Gesnera zebrina, 131; Rosa Manetti as a 

 Rose Stock, 133; Calla .Tthiopica, as an 

 aquatic plant, 135 ; Pruning and Training 

 the Peach Tree, 13fi ; New mode of pre- 

 serving or transmitting to a distance, cut- 

 tings of plants, 177; Select Flower and 

 Kitchen Garden Seeds, 177; Remarks on 

 early flowering plants (or the Green-house, 

 180 ; Rare Conifera', and Improvements in 

 the Cairnies, in Perthshire, Scotland, 226. 

 372; On the culture of Bignonias, 231; 

 Forcing Flowers, 232; Pot culture ol Vines, 

 233 ; On the cultivation of Achiincnes, 234 ; 

 Green-house Plants, 277 ; Guano beneflcial 

 to American Plants, 278; Culture of the 

 Chrysanthemum, 279; Roses, 319; Ctrlti- 

 vatiou of the Strawberry for forcing, 320; 

 Culture of the Camellia, 321 ; List of Grass- 

 es, and their qualities for line lawns, 322; 

 The Stanwick Nectarine, 323; Culture of 

 the Chrysanthemum, 323; The Market 

 Gardens around London. 324 ; Materials 

 essential for potting i)lants, 326 ; The Deo- 

 dar Cedar, 327; Raising Oaks from seed, 

 327 ; Slocks for Conifernc, 328 ; Grape Rust, 

 328; The Tree Violet, 329; Botanical No- 

 menclature, 417; On the difference between 

 Geraniums and Pelargoniums, 419; Roses 

 and Pelargoniums which obtained the priz- 

 es, 421 ; The Round-leaved Bell-flower or 

 Harebell, 422; Common Flowers, 465 ; Cu- 



phea platycentra, 466 ; Cultivation of spe- 

 cimen plants in 8 inch pots, 466; Coniferoe 

 in Scotland, 510; Culture of Kalosaihes 

 coccinea, 511 ; New and rare Roses of the 

 present jear, 512 ; On Pruning Roses, 514 ; 

 Pruning newly planted fruit trees, 515; 

 Remedy for the Mealy Bug, 51G ; Plumbago 

 Larpenias as an herbaceous plant, 516 ; Mr. 

 Saul's new method of budding roses, 517; 

 Hollyhocks, 517 ; Plums, 553 ; Pear Stocks, 

 554; The Plum as a pyramidal tree, 555 ; 

 Liquid Manure, 556; Wintering the Car- 

 nation, 566. 



Foreign Notices. 



England. — Dahlias and Dahlia Exhibitions 

 for 1850, 557. 



Do.MEsTic Notices. 

 Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, 36 ; The 

 Ohio Fruit Convention, 37 ; Proceedings of 

 the New York Poniological Congress, 37; 

 Southern Iowa Horticultural Society, 37; 

 Munificent Bequest for Rural Improve- 

 ments, 33 ; The Isabella Grape, 81 ; Trans- 

 idanting large trees in winter. Hi ; Seedling 

 Pears in Vermont, 81 ; The Annual Exhi- 

 bition of the Massachusetts Horticultmal 

 Society, 32; Establishment of a Bureau of 

 Agriculture, 82 ; Annual Exhibition of the 

 Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, 137 ; 

 Horticultural Society of the Valley of the 

 Genesee, 137; New mode of preventing 



