EDITORIAL. 
About the fairs,.14* 
Acknowledgment.144 
A caution which should be heed¬ 
ed. 1*4 
Adams land sale. 64 
Adulteration of lard...........352 
Agricultural college at Amherst, 
Muss. 80 
— Conventions. .160 
— Editorial excursionists.64 
— educational convention.112 
— experiments.160 
— information.368 
— legislation wanted In Canada. .320 
— rattening]. 144 
— students in colleges...64 
Aid for California farmers...,.400 
Americau cheese alarming Euro¬ 
pean dairymen...224 
— Institute awards on mowers 
and baytedders.... 64 
— machines. English opinion of.. i6 
— museum of natural history.352 
— standard of excellence for hen 
lice.128 
Pomologioal Society.192 
— -Our report of.272 
Among the fairs.128 
— — great fairs.234 
Are members of the Farmers’ Club 
farmers. 32 
Australian ment.400 
Ayrshire herd book...128, 224 
Barry, P. 304 
Bee keeping for women.368 
Bees sent by mail, How.....224 
Beet sugar crop In Europe.400 
— — in Wisconsin. 4S36 
— — manufacture at Amherst, 
Mass. 80 
— product. 224 
Best warm dinner In Alabama.400 
Blue glass patent. 224 
Botany and Agriculture.320 
BuiTalo bones in Kunsas....320 
Bulletin ot National Association of 
Wool Mann lanturcrs. .272 
Bureau of Ag. and Immigration in 
Virginia. 304 
Business education lor women....288 
— prospects. 128 
Butter and cheese cars.80 
Canada at Richmond....80 
— thistles In Illinois.852 
Canadian model farm...256 
Capron, Gen. Iloraco.....336 
Ca taloguos received... 128,144, 240. 352 
Cattle disease in New Mexico.112 
Central Ohio fair.,.,. ..224 
Choose factory, A Virginia.16 
Chicago agricultural papers.256 
— — press. 272 
— Magazine... ......400 
Chief clerk of Dept, of Ag... 96 
Christmas presents ready.384 
Cincinnati Industrial Exposition. 224 
Commercial drummers cost con¬ 
sumers, What.192 
Commissioner of Agriculture. ..16, 
32, 48, 288 
— -The now.... 80 
Competency of fair reporters.208 
Corn and cotton in the South.80 
— Tall.144 
Cornell students.361 
Cor. Sec. West’n N. Y, Dairy A8S’n.ll.2 
Cotton crop, Large... .384 
— ltuxt in... 17G 
Crall, I,. H...,,..112 
Cranberry culture. .128 
Crops of the country. 288 
Cundurango. the great.cancer rem¬ 
edy . 210 
Deep culture whore drouth pre¬ 
vailed. 362 
Department of agriculture.240, 256 
— -annual report.....304 
Does liberty ineun license?.64 
Do forests Increase the rain fall?.362 
Downing, Charles.112 
Drill for sowing mangolds, tar- 
nips, &c. 96 
Duty on imported stock.208 
Editorial correspondence. 16 
Educating blackguards vs. gentle¬ 
men. 2SS 
Elliott, F. R. 96 
Encouraging Oregon industry.64 
England, l. W... ..112 
Entomological report Dept, of Ag.288 
Entry fees at fairs.400 
Every woman her own flower gar¬ 
dener. 320 
Example of co-operation.352 
Excursion party to the Pacific, 
Another,.... 80 
Ex-editors from Minnesota...,....240 
Fair for the protection of dumb 
animals.......,336 
— grumbler....,. ...208 
— Now England......176 
Fairs in Minnesota, Monthly.128 
Faith in farmtUg. 240 
Fall catalogues received.112 
Farms of Pennsylvania. 80 
Farmers’ Board of Trade.112 
— Club at home...144 
— for the Legislature.,.....128 
— helping each other save. 64 
— working costumes, A new de¬ 
parture ill.96 
Favorabie outlook.64 
Fearful carnage, its cause... . IS 
Fine peaches .192 
Finley, Thomas E...,. 32 
Fire, Help for the suffering.256 
Flox. 32 
Foot-and-mouth disease.368 
— -in children...320 
— -Great Britain.250 
Fragrant leaf. 80 
Freas, Major........ .. 32 
Fruit be packed air tight? Should.304 
— in Portland...224 
— — the west.,...16 
— tree culture. Work on.112 
Fruits, About sending.208 
Georgia fairs.234, 288, 336 
Gift egg dodge. 32 
Glance at the west.......16 
Good nomination...... .240 
— representative. 112 
— times in Iowa.,,...192 
Gould, J. Stanton.176 
Graceful justice. SO 
Grain crops west. 16 
— in warehouse in Chicago.384 
Grape culturist.224 
— deterioration.272 
Grapes from North Carolina.208 
Grasshoppers in Maine.256 
Greer, W. F. 32 
Handbags. 32 
Harvest season, The. 32 
Hay and Grass . 16 
Heaps of grandparents.,..320 
Heavy rains...144 
Help for tired farmers’wives.193 
Helpful wife, A.64 
Heels and trigger.........112 
Hiring help by the hour.336 
Honey produce of the country—256 
Hops in Western New York.256 
Horse racing at fairs, A Maine 
view of...96 
Horticultural visit to the Dela¬ 
ware peninsula.128 
How is this threshing story for 
high.320 
— To hire men on a farm......... 04 
Hummel, Ja*. H.304 
Incidents of the great .Chicago 
lire... 288 
Indian agriculturists in Montana.400 
Illinois canning factory.240 
— Fanner gives away 38 farms,..288 
— Industrial University.368 
Imports and exports.336 
Industrial Exhibition Company...336 
Into Connecticut.Hi 
Investigation, Retrenchment.400 
Iowh Fanner, The...384 
Itinerant farmers’ clubs.128 
Johnston reaper abroad.128 
Kansas Agr. College, Farm super¬ 
intendent wanted.128 
— -Lectures at the. 61 
Kern, M. G. 336 
Knows nothing of politics.112 
Knox. J.32 
Labor reform movements....250 
— vs. Capital.320 
Lace manufacture.,..,..176 
Lady funner, A. 80 
Ladles’ Uorul cabinet. 288 
Law and order. 48 
Laws should be enforced. 96 
Legislators ridiculing furtn legis¬ 
lators.........308 
Levy. H. J. 170 
Liberal aud reliable bankers...320 
Li tern ry matters.. 192 
Little Corporal.272 
Loomis, W. n. SO 
Madder production.368 
Maine Agricultural College.36S 
— State ralr..128 
Map of Chicago.288 
Maryland Agricultural College....320 
Mulch making.......288 
Meteorology, Com. M. F. Maury onS36 
MethegllfL.368 
Michigan Agricultural College304.368 
— Fire, Help for the sufferers. ..272 
— Fruit at Richmond...64 
Military education of agricultural 
students,.. ,...96 
Misplaced mercy.......320 
MoOl-e’s Rural for 1872 .304 
More valuable help..288 
Mountain of magnesia in Oregon. .400 
Mulching trees, shrubs. Ac—.144 
Must fanners work harder.400 I 
Natural dialect.,. 16 
New England fair, Permanent lo¬ 
cation of.224 
— Hampshire Ag’l College.368 
— Western agency.352 
— York banks and bankers.320 
— — Editorial Convention........ 32 
— — Rural Club.381 
— — State fair.144, 224, 256 
— Zealand examining American 
•mplements.....176 
Northern Ohio fair..224 
No space for mutual admiration.. .384 
Not a candidate. ... 352 
— — retrograde.,352 
Obituary, Clias. Collis Western.... 96 
Ohio Ag.College.64, 96 
Olives in tbeSouth.352 
On t he make.208 
Opium culture In Tennessee_96, 208 
Or vis, J. U.176 
Our corresponding editor..... 90 
— dumb animals.160 
— foreign trade.192 
— list of fairs.,96 
— modesty. 400 
— new departure approved.240 
— publication offices.352 
Over in Jersey, State fair gtounds.112 
Owens, A, G...304 
Patrons of Husbandry in Iowa... .224 
leach orchard vandal, Benton 
Harbor, Mich... 96 
— trade of New York..,.,.112 
Peroheron horses.192 
Political reform.384 
Pop corn....308 
Portable fountain.288 
Potato rot in England.330 
Poultry book. The best. 160 
Premium lists received.192 
Prize tor the best fellow.320 
Profits In rural pursuits.,.170 
Progress in Japan.. , .....266 
Proposed ngricult’l experiments. ..192 
Protecting farmers.... .,. .400 
Protest against cutting up corn. ...192 
Quick eating the fruits of labor.. .160 
Quinn, Patrick.32,112 
Raisins, Decline in the price of....112 
Ramie plant propagators.368 
Rarnsdell & Co.. D. W. 64 
Rates or insurance.320 
Rats in a house......368 
Red and blue glass for hot-houses.160 
Refining Borghutn.288 
Reform. 320 
Registering Jersey stock. 86 ,112 
Rental and tenant system.160 
Report of Dept, of Agriculture... .384 
Respectability vs. politics.208 
Revision committee of Am. Pom. 
Society.288 
itice In California.352 
Right of suffrage.320 
Riley, Chas. V.141 
— on grape deterioration.....352 
Road steamer.112 
Rochester daily newspapers.36S 
Root Growers' Ass'n.336 
Rural legislators, Our.S36 
— New-Yorker advancing.224 
--for 1872...192 
— — Yorker's new departure.272 
Rust-proof oats....288 
Some sort of justice.320 
Sanctum personals..32,112, 128.144. 
176,192. 206 
Sassafras market.224 
— oil.400 
Saunders, Wm.208 
School of telegraphy.,.224,336 
Season and prop reports. 16 
Seuslblo premiums.400 
Sericulture in California.112 
Sheep in Wls„ Mysterious enemy 
of. 256 
Shermnn, Gen......336 
Short weight and scant measure...256 
Silkworm eggs In Louisiana.208 
i Some land.-.80 
Sound talk about success..400 
Spectator, The. 04 
Squeaking hoots..,,.352 
State chemist for Tennessee.272 
Statistics and the statistician. Es¬ 
timate of. 64 
Steam plowB.400 
— — at work, Where are. 64 
— — iu the South.144 
— plowing in Minnesota. 64 
— vs. flesh-and-blood horses.336 
Stock breeding at agricultural 
colleges... 64 
Strictures on the work of the 
Smithsonian Institute.352 
Study of native grasses.320 
Sugar crop of Louisiana.304 
8umae in Missouri.208 
Sulphur in Louisiana.384 
Swine exposition In the Northeast.240 
Tea drinkers drink. What.336 
— Let the South grow....,.256 
Telegraphy, Learning. 64 
Tenants for help.368 
Texas cattle In Kansas. 04 
Tobacco crop.368, 400 
— — of New England....304 
— in Connecticut......368 
“Too modest by half”.....336 
— much of a good thing.224 
Triplet calves. 32 
Trophy tomato....272 
Vacating on the Pacific slope.80 
Ventilation in cheese cars.352 
Vermonter going West.141 
Veterinary Surgeons.384 
Vick, James.144.352 
Vick’s catalogue for 1872.320 
Volume XXIV... 16 
Wanted badly....338 
Warren, J. Q. A . 362 
Watorvliot Center Inquiry.320 
Watts, Commissioner of Ag.112 
Wcatfter studies.288 
We shouldn’t wonder..400 
Western New York fair.224 
— Rural..368 
What do yon live for?. 80 
— —we advise?. .96 
— one seed firm is doing in Roch¬ 
ester . 384 
— shall 1 do?,....224 
Wheat, and corn the same season.. 80 
Whore can boys pay their own way 
lit. school?..400 
Whitney’s excursion to the Pacific 96 
Who dares travel V.160 
Willard, Addresses by.160 
Willard’s Dairy Book....208 
Williams, Kit.tatifiny.112 
Wine making. Work on.160 
Wisconsin farmers’ wool crop.96 
Wool clip of 1871,.,. 16 
Workers vs. Drones.-.368 
Yurann, Jason.192 
ENTOMOLOGICAL. 
Anomala lucicole.43,107 
— —correction.107 
Anomalas again.141 
— on grape vines. 27 
Ants, Poisoning....43 
— Stinging ..160 
Aphis, Cherry.... u 
— Green.,...,.234 
— or green fly....12 
Apple worm.73,91 
Arnin splnosu.73, 219 
Altftous polyphemns. 59 
Bean weevils again.365 
Bee killer, The.Hi) 
Beetle, Another potato.-150 
— Black blister. ..140 
— Enemies of the potato.189 
— Margined blister..156 
— Striped blister.189 ' 
— The tickler. 156 
Beetles, A bottle of..207 
— Lime and blister.23t 
Blister beetle, Black.140 
Bonibyx cyntliia.......43 
Borers, Hot water und peach tree. 28 
— in apple trees. 63 
— — cedare. 192 
Bug, Striped soldier.219 
— remedy.-.192 
Bugs, A wall about.107 
Cabbage worm parasite. .365 
— — A new enemy to..333 
— worms and wasps.173 
Carpocapsa pumonetta. 13 
Oorydalls commas.107 , 
Caterpillar on grape vines.205 
— Saddle-back....219 
Caterpillars on pansies.122 
Cetonla Indn.219 
Chelymorphin cribrarla.107 
Chicken mite.380 
Chinch bug..-......160 
— — remedy....284 
— bugsin Iowa.....176 
Cicada, alius seventeen years’ lo¬ 
custs,. 14 
Climbing cricket. 76 
Clytus p'cin. Ill 
Coddling moth...73, 01 
— — appears, Time of year.73 
— — Bandage system. 73 
— — Hqw and when to apply rem¬ 
edies . 91 
— — trap.234 
— — Natural enemies. 91 
— — Two broods a year.73 
Cocci n el 112-punctata.333 
Colorado potato bugs..... 28 
Cow kilter.301 
Cricket, Mole.156 
Cucumber beetle.186 
Curcullo, Corn.239 
— in mushrooms....156 
Currant worms. To get rid of.73 
Cutworms. Sawdust for. 63 
Cynips serainutor. 28 
Dlftbroticu punctata.ISfi 
DoryphoralO lineata. 28 
Emipretea stimulflft.219 
Entomological notes. 74 
Ereoscmia lainquera.283 
Kudryas grata.107 
Gall lice, Destruction of.283 
— louse and root louse identical.251 
Galls on maple leaves.176 
Grape deterioration_251, 268, 283, 301 
— leaf gall louse.261 
— Root disease.288 
Habits of the gall. Inhabited type.251 
Harris’ entomological cabinet.220 
HeRagrammite fly..63,107 
Indian cetouia...219 
Insect, on cherry trees. 14 
Insects, How to study the habits 
of..186 
— in Illinois..,.,.219 
— Work on. 28 
Ithycerus noveboraceusis. 28 
Katydid eggs.338 
Lady birds.338 
Lftcbnosterna quercina....219 
Lcma trilineuta...63,186,219 
Locust borer.141 
Lophyrus Abbotii.203 
Louse on grape roots, Habits.268 
Susceptibilit y of different vines 
to attacks of the....268 
Lucanus damn. 43 
Lygaeus Jencopterus.ICO 
Lytta atrata.140 
— marginata.156,234 
— vlttata.,.,. 107 
May beetle.219 
Means of contagion of grape dis¬ 
ease .268 
Melon bugs.186 
Mole cricket.156 
Monohammus titillutor.156 
Mutllla ooocineu.301 
Mutllla ferrugata.150 
— occtdentalls...,.156 
Oak gall, Wooly.28 
Onctderes cengulatus.. —234 
Orgyia cucostignla. 73 
.Parasites on fowls. . ........380 
Paris green, Antidote for.... 45 
— — poisonous but Dot danger¬ 
ous .. 45 
Peach borers. Tansy as « preven¬ 
tive.140 
— tree borers and hot water.28 
Polidnotn punctata. 57 
— Spotted. 69 
Pennsylvania soldier beetle.91 
Pliyllaxera vlttlfolia.251 
Pieres rupee. 44 
Prlonus laticollis.43, 69 
Potato beetle, A new enetnv.73 
— — Castor oil for...160 
— — Colorado. 44 
— — Elder leaves no antidote for. 45 
— — Enemy of Colorado.140 
— — in Canada...,.. 74 
— -Ohio, Enemy of........74 
— — May apple root no antidote 
for.... 45 
— — Natural enemies of,.45 
— — One more.122 
— — Paris green an antidote for.. 44 
— — spreads but does not travel. 44 
— — Three lined. ey 
— bug, Another...107 
-Colorado. 160 
— — in New Hampshire.122 
— — remedies.27, 28 
— hugs. 63 
-To get rid Of.283 
— — White hellebore to destroy..107 
Polyphemus moth. Cocoons of.59 
Pupa from Franklin Co., N. Y.189 
Remedies for root lice.283 
Robinta pseudacacla.141 
Root lice, Destruction of..283 
Seventecn-ycnr locusts. 28 
Silkworm, Ailanthus. 43 
Splienophorus sens.239 
Sphinx 5-mnculftta.140 
Squash bugs. 186 
Striped blister beetle.107 
Telephorus billneatus. 91 
Thrips on Onions.234 
Tomato worm parasite.140 
Tickler beetle...156 
Trupaneu aplvoru.140 
Twig glrrtlor.234 
Two-linqd soldier beetle...91 
Vapor —-. 73 
Wasps nnd ciabbage worms.173 
Weevil, The New York. 28 
Weevils again. Bean.365 
— Bean.317 
— Grain..315 
Wheat devastating bugs.160 
White hellebore and potato bugs. .107 
— pine worms.203 
Wood nymph moth..107 
FARM ECONOMY. 
Ashes and elover for oat land.316 
— for sandy land, Leached.239 
— Utility of anthracite coal.239 
Bones. Grinding vs. steaming..340 
— How to dissolve.186 
Burdock, How to destroy. 92 
Compost heap und applying it.192 
— Making.282 
Corn fodder, Curing.172, 218 
— or pork.347 
— stalks. Storing.,.,..153, 186,218 
Cotton planters, Protection to.68 
— seed as a fertilizer.282 
— — for manure, To prepare.107 
Draining land, Profits of .205 
— pay? Does. . 361 
Farm, Laying out a. . 172 
— Plan of a...92 
— To lay out a lOO acre. 27 
Fern bogs, To get rid of.107 
Fence. Post and rail.92, 282 
Fences, Movable hurdle............ 92 
Food for stock, Cooking.361 
Gas lime, The use of.398 
Grain in uuiunan, Pasturing.364 
Hay, Restoring injured.282 
Hen manure, Management of.59 
Hogs’ hearts, plucks, &c„ for ma¬ 
nure,.. ,...346 
Hoosler's inquiries, A...,. 27 
Human excrement, Saving.346 
irrigation In Colorado.. 58 
Lands washing, To prevent.92 
Loaehy land.218 
Leaves. Saving the.267 
Lime for soils..—361 
Manure, A patent.361 
— Management of hen. 58 
Muck from Michigan....398 
— in Texas, Applying.218 
Oak saw dust for sand.282 
Offal, How to use...316 
Paris green and the potato bug.... 27 
Pent bcd.F. A W.'s . 27 
Phosphate of lime, Composition of. 27 
Plaster lose its propert ies by keep¬ 
ing, Does....361 
— of Paris.5S 
— on wet ground.316 
— Quality of. 361 
Plowing, Deepvs. shallow.398 
— Economy of longfurrows in—282 
Plows, Left and right handed.92 
— Right nnd left handed.153 
Pork, Putting up side.377 
Post and rail fence......252 
Raspberry canes, How to cut.153 
Salt and Silica....75 
— ns a solvent of Silica.107 
Sea weeds, Fertilizers from.316 
Small seed for stock.346 
Steamer, Poplar wood.218 
Stumps, How to get rid of. 92 
Thresher that will thresh 1,000 
bushels per day.218 
Turnips, Storing. 153 
Urine, Value of animal.361 
Weeds, Noxious.107 
Wheat, How to shock. 12 
Wirefonce, Patent...398 
FIELD CROPS. 
Alfalfa for tbeSouth. 74 
— In California.169 
— Lucerne..314 
ABhes for Sweet Potatoes, Leach¬ 
ed ... .314 
Barley. Fall plowing for......234 
— for malting.. ....362 
— from Utah............234 
— Spring and winter.154 
Beans, yiile's experiment with_1(!9 
Beets and marigolds for forage... 42 
Buckwheat tor torage........110 
— Turning under. 10 
Bushes, The moon killing.137 
Canada thistle law in Illinois.250 
— thistles in the West.2:44 
— — An old farmer on.,.411 
Carrot Culture. 58 
— Going to seed.206 
— To raise. 28 
Clover. Alsilte.266 
— Cutting and pasturing.74 
— in Georgia, Japan.346 
— — Kansas.28 
— — the South, Alsike.169,250 
— Prairie.169 
— Rabbit-foot.284 
— seed, Kentucky.160 
Corn, About seed.346 
— after peas..169 
— — wheat...154 
— Branching.234. 379 
— crop, Mr. O, Burras’. 42 
— — Increasing. 42 
— Cutting.90, 220 
— Cutworms, and. 10 
— fodder. .284 
— for soiling, Large.154 
— Guinea.......,,.,. 266 
— Harvesting drill.2,to 
— in Goorgia, Dent.169 
— Husking. Mr. Burras’. 74 
— Husking. 10 
— Ill Illinois, Cost of growing_74 
— — tbeSouth, Sandford.340 
— Peru. 90 
— reports. Large.188 
— Sanford.188, 394 
— iielccting seed.314 
— When to cut. 74 
Coryaria Thymifolia.234 
Croton tnonanthogynum —..362 
Cut-worms and corn. 10 
Dalny, Ox-eye.203 
Figwort.,..188 
Flax In Oregon. 90 
Grass, Couch.266 
— Cutting prairie.205 
— experience with Orchard.314 
— for name.188 
— — spring pasturage.266 
— How to kill quack.203 
— in the South, Bermuda.391 
— June.,. 57 
— Killing quack.137 
— Meadow fescue. 57 
— Orchard. 67 
— Poucompressa. 57 
— Quitch...154 
— Red-top. 57 
— Seeding with Hungarian.110 
— Sweet scented vernal.. ..... 57 
— Seeding prairie soil with tame 10 
— To destroy Joint. .362 
Grasses. Dairy..57 
— of Orange Co., Butter.67 
Gntlerrzem microcephala.362 
Huy crop. Shortness of and how to 
provide n remedy. . 10 
— Lime nnd salt in curing.42 
— Balling.90 
— upon stock, Effect of limed. 58 
Hemp as anurobtlc.299 
— Male and female. 90 
Hop prospects, European. 58 
Hops, Curing.. . 42 
— Now California. .,188 
Horse nettle. 284 
Ink plant of New Grenada. ,234 
Irish Potatoes In S. C. 814 
Jute, American.346 
Lime and salt In curing hay. 42 
Lols-Weedon husbandry. 74 
Making $1,100 from 6 acres.74 
Meadows, How to renew.137 
Millet for soiling cows.314 
— Italian.284 
Milhlenberglu glomerate.284 
Nettles for stock.314 
New Jersey field crops.10,110 
Oats, Balt for.28 
— Winter. 42 
Opium culture for 1871.330 
Orchard Grass, experience with...314 
Peanut, Analysis of.330 
Peanuts, To grow...42 
Peas profitably, How to grow.90 
— To keep bugs out of .10, 110 
— Vine’s experiments.169, 217 
Potato, A Pennsylvania farmer’s 
seedling..... 266 
— crops, Peerless. , .250 
— Early Mohawk.,...203 
-Rose.203. 267, 299, 411 
— in August.PhintingEarlyRose.no 
— Lat.e Rose.411 
— Oneida... 362 
— Peerless.183,267 
— vines. Cutting off Sweet.205 
— What is a first-class.330 
Potatoes are grown in New Eng¬ 
land, How.203 
— Ashes for sweet.314 
— Digging early.124 
— Early Goodrich.-.299 
— Freaks among.188 
— In straw, Planting.284 
— mix? Do.. . 10 
— To keep bugs from. 74 
— To keep Irish and sweet.154 
Prairie grass, Cutting.205 
Pumpkin seeds.394 
rumpktns, Sexin....330 
Quack grass .. 154 
-How to kill.203 
Turnip, A frozen... 57 
— culture. 57 
Turnips, Canadian exports of.57 
— Florida.217 
— Growing. 90 
— How to raise. 57 
— in Marshall Co., Xnd.314 
— Minnesota vs. Florida.266 
— poison land? Do. 10 
— Pulling.315 
— The value of....57 
Vine’s experiments with beans, 
peas and wheat.169, 217 
Wheat, Arnold's hybrid.90 
— crop.Cause of deterioration of.330 
— crops. Salt applied to.394 
— Egyptian.137 
— Experiments with.137 
— Putts.234 
— How to shock. 12 
Information wanted.74 
— Jennings' white winter.250 
— Odessa.,...234 
Old vs. new seed. 110 
— Planting. 346 
— Pickling. 250 
— The Scott. 169 
— to sow, The best, winter.169 
— Vine's experiments.169 
— White Maltese. 74 
— Vine's experiments with.217 
Witch grass. 15 * 
FLORICULTURE. 
Adam’s needle......153 
Amaryllis... .. 124 
Alpine plants, A group.266 
Althea., Variegated leaved.172 
Arncsea or Arums....348 
Arbutus In hanging baskets. Trail¬ 
ing . 172 
— Trailing. 92 
Arundo donax striata.141 
Azalea culendulacea. 25 
— pent lea cocclnea. 25 
— purpurea. 25 
— viscera. 25 
Azaleas. 25 
Bedding plants, Wintering....249 
Begonias. 13 
Bleeding heart.265 
Botnny, Tropical.348 
Bouquet. Winter.249 
Brugmansen, Arborla.220 
Bulbs. Depth to plant.124 
— Holland.. ..377 
— How to plant.124 
— Planting fall.108 
— Preservation of.236 
Spring flowering.124 
— Soil for.134 
— Selection of kinds.124 
— Time to plant... 124 
Cacti. Hardy.... 43 
Cactus, Gigantic Mexican.377 
Caladlum esculentum. 141 
Caladiums... 13 
Calystigla seplurn..108,188 
Camellias, Treatment of.265 
Cannas, A group of. 76- 
— Howto keep...313 
Catalogues of flower seeds.297 
Castanea puinila. 313 
Cestruin diurnnm.297 
— elegnns.390 
Chrysanthemums, Housing.313 
Clematis integrlfolla. 25 
Commelyna Vlrglntca.313 
Conservatory ornaments. 201 
Crlnum Amerloannm.297 
Cronus, The. 124 
Crown imperials....153 
Cypress gllea. 108 
Dahlia glabruia. 313 
Dahlias, Liiiput...141 
— and tuberoses..,...297 
Day flower. 313 
Dlceutra. 265 
Dlciamnus fraxinella..7(>, 92 
Dielytra spectabilis.265 
Eriunthus ruvenn®. 141 
EpigtBa repens..92.172 
Kuonymus rndicans. 140 
— Trailing .HO 
Eustotua Russeieana.188 
Ferns from seed. Raising.25 
Ferneries. A book on.60 
Fig, Marigold., ...,.. 377 
Floral inquiries, Five...313 
Floriculture, Book on. 377 
Florists, Notes tor...,.. 92 
Flower, A beautiful wild... .188 
— beds, Top-drt'Bsing. .376 
— gardon, in qhe... 297 
— — Preparations for spring.201 
— — Plotting.HO 
— holders, Cut.220 
Flowers, Autumn. 172 
— change to double and single.. .140 
— Color of. 188 
— for name.313 
— How to have nice,..297 
— Keeping. 153 
Forget-me-nots, Changeable.108 
: Fuchsia gramliflora.265 
— suboorduta... 2«6 
Garden vase, Elegant.265 
Gaultborea prooumbens.172 
Geranium, Fritz. 60 
— from leaves, Propagating.265 
— Gen. Ulot.201 
— King William.00 
Geraniums and similar plants.201 
— Two new.... 60 
— Trl.oolored.265 
Glndlolii, A group ot.124 
Gladiolus bulbs.330 
— bulbs, Lifting...,.172 
Grass hoquets. Colored.....25 
Green houses. Country.379 
Habrothamus elegans.396 
Hanging baskets .... ...... .124 
I Hollyhocks, Our double German. .153 
Houseleek..265 
Lillum dalmaticum.. 
— Hansonii.60, 
— stam inatum. 
— thumbergranum. ^ 
— tigrinum. 124 
Lily at, the London show, A new..log 
Lysmachlu streets.. 
Meeserabryanthernum.. 
Mikanla acandens.. 
Mitchells repens.. 
Myrlophyllum spicatum.. 
Myrtle, Double blue.265 
NareissUB, The.. 
Nelumbium luteum. 313 
— speolosum. 313 
Niche in the wall ornamented.201 
Nettle. Horse. 172 
Nymphffia eoerulea. 313 
Opuntia Missouriensis. 43 
— raflnesqult. 43 
— vulgaris. 43 
Ornamentation for winter. 249 
Ornithogaluni thyrsoidea alba. 25 
OxnJis.. .285 
— violacea. 265 
Fseonies not blooming. 13 
Pea, large flowering. 249 
— Pink, Mullein... 348 
Plant vaporizer.236 
Plants, A plea for house.331 
— for uquarlum*. 265 
— — baskets.124 
— House culture of. 283 
Quitch grass. Killing. 
— plants, About. 
Re-seeding an old pasture— 
— plants, Aphides on... 
Roots for forage. 
— — injurious, Are.... 
Ruta biigas, Preparingground for. 12 
— — Stimulating , ... 
— — Sowing. 
. 27 
— — Watering,.. 
Rye in a corn hold. 
Hyacinth, The. 
.124 
— forage for milch cows.,...314 
Sait applied to wheat crops.394 
— for oats. 28 
Seed per acre. Table of quantity of 58 
Seeding prairie sod with tame 
grasses. 10 
Sataria Italics.... ...284 
Soap suds and potato bugs.58 
Solanum cavolinense.284 
Sorghum as feed..330 
— cornuum....,.2CS 
— in the South. 90 
— for fodder.192 
Tobacco seed. Experience with—299 
— should be topped, How.154 
— Topping...42,137 
Hyacinths, Propagating.377 
— Wintering. 25 
Iris, Wild..,,,.,,..347 
— Wintering.—.... 25 
Ivies, Propagating hardy.330 
Lathyrusgrundlflora.249 
Layers, Taking up.236 
Leaves, Form of.18S 
Lilies,Culture of water....284 
— Day.. - ...265 
— I-Iow to treat.140 
— wanted, Names of.124 
— Wintering Japan...25 
Lilium auvatum.37,265 
— candidum. 59 
— Columblauum. 108 
— How to supply the need of. 153 
— in rooms healthy.236 
— Protecting hardy.201 
— — tender...201 
— Potting tender.'.236 
— Purchasing..... 76 
— Management of house.331 
— Nomenclature of. ..188 
— Ornamental leaved...141 
— Tender, hard-wooded.201 
Polanlsia purpurea.. 1SS 
Pond lilies. Growing.172 
— — Transplanting.172 
Portulacft*.377 
Rhododendron seed, Sowing.365 
Rlclnus...141 
Roses, Bessie Johnson.220 
— bushes. Wintering.284 
— Crested moss.13 
— cuttings. 348 
— leaves. Market value of.3C5 
— Republican.297 
Rosemary.13 
Roses, Mildew on. 13 
— New English.249,331 
— Pruning.27 
— Twelve of the best.318 
Saxlfraga maweana. 365 
Smllax nsparngotdes.76 
— Myrgyphllum aspnragoides.236 
Solanum Carolinense.172 
— mllougena. 172 
— pyrncantnum.153 
Spiraea salisifolia...76 
Strlartlu pentagynla.43 
Sunflower, A new.365 
Sweet William hybrids.172 
Tanyah culture.330 
Tradescauta pilora.13 
— seplum. 108 
— zebrlna.....108 
Tube roses and dahlias.297 
— —single . 203 
Tulips.124 
— and crown Imperials...153 
do not need manure....25 
Variegation of leaves, Cause of... 25 
Vase. Elegant garden.255 
Verbenas, Propagating and win¬ 
tering . .. 13 
Vines, Protecting climbing........347 
Violets, Sweet.121 
Water milfoil.265 
Window plants, Treatment Of.249 
Wood sorrel, Violet colored.265 
Yuccas, The.153 
Zinnia and aster seeds.103 
GARDENER. 
Agarlcus campestris.348 
— mucidus.34s 
Allium porrum...125 
Aplos tuberosus.1'3 
Arrow root.347 
Asparagus, Big.29 
— for profit.380 
— Large... 
Beans, Growth of Lima.!25 
Broccoli, Taking up unheatled.316 
Cabbage from seeds, Propagating,316 
— beads bursting. 1S - 
— in cold frames. 333 
— worms and wasps. .L3 
Cabbages by Irrigation tn Allega¬ 
ny CO....... 316 
— Hard soli for autumn and win- 
OOO 
.. 
— How u Rural woman grows.29 
— Infested... 
Capers, False and true.380 
Cauliflowers. Protecting.^ 
Celery, Branching. 
Chinese Yams, Digging.330 
Cold frames. Treatment of.333 
Cucumber and squash vines, Lay- ^ 
. ... 
Fungi, Edible. 
Garden, Fall preparation of the.. -alb 
— insects and tobacco... 
— plotting. 
— stakes. 
Helvella crispu.. 
HeTbs, A list of.-. 
Lathyrus tuberosus. . 
Leeks and their culture. 
— Storing in winter. • 
Lettuce, Hard white Dutch cab- 
bage..*... ~ J \ 
Lima beans tfi California. b '_ 
Marenta angustlfoUa.34. 
Market gardening. Book on. ‘ 
Martynia fragrans..."J 
— probosid®... 
Melons. Abundant crop of. ^ 
Mushroom culture. 
Mushrooms, Edible....^ 
Musk melons... 
Onions, About. . 
— are selling, How. 
— .. z 
— Curing... 
— Experience In growing. ld “ 
— Selling.JJ 
— Varieties. 
Rhubarb, Forcing... 15fl 
Salt for tomatoes. 
Sowing seedB in autumn. 
Spinach for winter. 
Squash bugs. Remedyfor.« 
— vines, Checking the growth of .L- 
-Pruning. 
Squashes, How to gather, *eep^ 
and cook. . 
Tobacco garden insects.. — 
