Vol. III. 



NEW-YORK, NOVEMBER, 188 



No. ii. 



A MONTHLY ILLUSTRATED JOURNAL, 

 Devoted to the Gardening- Interests of America. 

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 DR. F. M. HEXAMER, : : Editor. 



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CONTENTS OP 



The American G-arden 



November, 1882. 



Page One Hundred and Sixty-one — Contents — 

 Publishers' Notices — Friendly Words. 



Page One Hundred and Sixty-two — The Vegeta- 

 ble Garden— Seasonable Hints — Garden Ex- 

 periments— Peppermint— Reducing Bones, by 

 Thos. D. Baird — Cleaning Onion Seed. 



Page One Hundred and Si xty-three — Parsnips, 

 by Chas. E. Parnell — Autumn Work in the Gar- 

 den, by S. E. T. 



Page One Hundred and Sixty-four — The Fruit 

 Garden — Seasonable Hints — The Bag Worm, 

 by B. D. Halsted — Removing Dead Branches. 



Page One Hundred and Sixty-five— The Duchess 

 Grape, by E. Williams. 



Page One Hundred and Sixty-six — The Flower 

 Garden— Bramble, a Poem— Seasonable Hints 



— Grape Hyacinths, by E. S. Rand, Jr. — Sum- 

 mer Flowering Bulbs. 



Page One Hundred and Sixty-seven — The Lily 

 of the Valley— Violets. 



Page One Hundred and Sixty-eight— Lawn and 

 Landscape — Preparing Shrubs for Winter, by 

 E. E. Rexford— Care of Honey Locust Hedges 

 —Skeleton Leaves — The Virginia Fringe-Tree 



— Pruning Evergreens. 



Page One Hundred and Sixty-nine — The Window 



Garden— Single Dahlias, by Win. Falconer — 



—The Venus Fly-Trap, by C. R. Hexamer— 



Heating Small Conservatories. 

 Page One Hundred and Seventy— Rural Life — 



Garden Culture in Colorado by Irrigation, by 



W. E. Pabor. 

 Page One Hundred and Seventy-one — Irrigation 



continued — Our Exhibition Table — Answers to 



Correspondents. 

 Page One Hundred and Seventy-two — Advertising 



Department. 



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IRRIGATION, 



This subject, in which a large number of 

 our readers are deeply interested, is con- 

 stantly assuming greater importance, not 

 only in the far West, where all cultivation 

 depends upon the facilities for obtaining 

 a steady current of water, but also in the 

 Eastern States, where frequent droughts 

 destroy the husbandman's crops and hopes. 

 The day can not be far distant when, through 

 combined efforts in favorably situated locali- 

 ties, the disastrous effects of "dry seasons" 

 will be materially mitigated by judicious sys- 

 tems of irrigation. 



It is for these reasons that we have devoted 

 considerable space of this number to the ex- 

 cellent article of Mr. W. E. Pabor, in prefer- 

 ence to other matter, and we trust that no 

 one interested in progressive horticulture 

 will fail to give it a careful perusal. We 

 have never read anything that gave so clear 

 and complete an insight into the system and 

 practical workings of irrigation. 



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