INDEX TO VOL 
Pagi 
Abies nigra Douniettii.30 
-parviformis. 30 
-pungens.21, 30 
Abutilon. 3® 
Acer Iiorbergii.i50 
-Reitenbachi.130 
-Sob-wedlerii.150 
Acbimenes.■ -29,109 
-and Gloxinias.220 
Adlrondacks, Flo-wers for tbe.... 72 
Aeration of tbe Soil. 82 
Agapantbus.136 
Age of Trees, Measuring tbe.176 
Alfalfa. .115 
Allainanda. 8 
Amaryllis. 136 ,189, 233 
-AVinter-blooming. 32 j 
Amazon Lily... 88 j 
Amber, Tbe World’s Supply of... .173 | 
Amputated Limbs, Covering.2C8 j 
Anemones.17, 231 j 
Annuals, Half-bardy and Tender. 27 
Antburium. 92 | 
-Scberzex'ianum.129 I 
-Warocyguinnum.129 
Antignon leptopus.196 1 
Apple-tree Borer.lOl 
Apple-trees, Malting, Bear Every 
Year.121 
Apples, Picltiug and Winter Care 
of.185 
-Russian. 15 
-Select List of. 11 
-Storing.165 
Applying Manui-e in tbe Fall.207 
Apricots.105 
Aquarium, A Natural.51 
AqiiUegia.231 
-ccerulea Jamesii.26,117 
Airaugement of Plants. 29 
Artemisia Dracunculus.103 
Artlcbokes, Green Globe.102 
-Jerusalem.183 
Asbes as Fertilizers. 2 
-Coal . 2 , 84 
-Wood, for Orcbards. 64 
Assisting Growing Crops.102 
Asparagus.182, 220 
-Beds. 226 
-Culture in France. 70 
-Fertilizer.183 
-in Pots.215 
-Preparing for.136 
-Summer Treatment of.103 
Aucuba Japonica. 68 
Australia, Soutb, Glimpses of.... 30 
Australian Drought.191 
Austria, Scbool Gardens in.171 
Autumn-flowering Sbrubs, The 
Best.190 
-sown Flower Seeds.210 
-Planting.170 
-Work for tbe Window Gar¬ 
den .168 
Azaleas, Hardiness of. 50 
-in Summer.115 
Balsam, Tbe Zanzibar.28, .52 
Balsams.167 
Banyan Tree.174 
Barberry, Purple.130 
Basket Plants..,.108 
Beans, Busb.103 
-Colored, A Plea for.122 
Bearing Age of Fruils .196 
Bedding Plants.126 
Begonia picta. 09 
-rubra. 69 
-Weltonlensis. 69 
Begonias.148 
Bermuda Easter Lily.189, 232 
-Gardens. 112 
-Pumiikln Vine. 171 
Biennials.146 
Bird Homes.ill 
Birds, Care of.134 
Page 
Birds, How, Learn to Sing.153 
BlackbeiTies, Hardy.124 
-Killing. 
-Select List of. 44 
Blackberry Canes Dying.176 
-Minnewaska.229 
_and Raspberry Root-cuttings. 208 
Bleacbing Celery.226 
Bleeding Heart.26, 233 
Bligbt, Pear.165 
Bones, Reducing.196 
Books on Fruit Culture.136 
Bordeaux District of America... .185 
Borer, Apple-tree.104 
-Tbe Squasb.122 
Boston, Flower-culture in.218 
Bouquet, A Tbauksgivings.231 
-A Vegetable.191 
-Electric.219 
Bouvardias.148 
Box Edgings.110 
Bracket Gai’dening. 69 
Building an Ice-bouse.236 
Buildings of tbe Ancients.195 
Bulb Beds. 46 
Bulbs. 6 
-Dutch.186, 232 
-for AVinter Flowering.189 
I -Growing, in Water.213 
j -not Blooming. 92 
-Rotting.115 
-Spring-flowering.87, 210, 231 
-Storing.230 
Burdette, Bob, on Farming.134 
Buttercups, Double. 47 
Buttered Floiu’.195 
Cabbage and Cauliflower, Protect¬ 
ing.142 
-Caterpillar.142 
-Culture. 83 
-Early.42 
-Gouig to Seed.165 
-Worm.122 
Cactus.148 
-Culture.168 
Caladiums.. 6 
-Rotting.115 
C.aloeolarias.148 
Calendula raaritima fl. pi. 46 
-sicula fl. pi. 46 
Callas.69,148, 169 
Calliopsis. 7 
Campanula i>yramidalis.32 
Canna.s.126 
Canned yegetables and Fruits, 
Dangers of. 3 
Carnations.148,169 
Carniverous Plants.171 
Carpeting Plant, A Pretty.146 
Catalogues, A Study of. 6 
Catslrills, Tbe. 70 
Cauliflower Raising. 102 
Celery.142,162 
-Banking up.206 
-Bleacbing.226 
-Going to .Seed. 32 
-Henderson’s White Plume_ 2 
-Wintering. 206 
Cellars, Fruit, Ventilation for_ 220 
-Whitewashing.1.51 
Cement for Mounting Plants.134 
Ceylon, Cinnamon Culture in.151 
CheiTy, A Valuable.229 
-The Windsor.229 
Cherries for Succession. 45 
-Select List of. 44 
Chewing the Cud.! .154 
Cbtcnostemma bispida. 9 
Chrysanthemum, Early AV’hite... .165 
-Month. 210 
Clirysauthemmns.I 88 
-Cultivation of. 87 
-in Pots. 7 
-Potting. 167 
Cinerarias.148 
Page 
.232 
.188 
.116 
.176 
..165 
.. 88 
.. 62 
2, 81 
.. 86 
Cinnamon Culture in Ceylon.161 
City, A, Of Flowers.^35 
Cleaning Plahts. 
Cleanliness. 
Clematis. 
-from Seed. 
-not Blooming. 
Climbing Solanum. 
Clover, Japan. 
Coal-ashes. 
Cobca sc.andens. 
Cocoar-nut, Tbe Immoral.174 
-Uses of. 
Coeoariiuts in Didia.112 
-Raising. 
Coffee, Poisonous.174 
Cold Pits and their Management . 230 
Coleus.1®® 
Colocasias. ® 
Columbines. 26 
Company in the Country.131 
Coniferous Trees, New. 30 
Controversies. 61 
Construction of Roads and Walks. 234 
Coral Plant.127 
Corn Cut-worms.163 
-.Sugar. 82 
Country, Company in the.131 
-Homes in tbe.172 
-House Hall.216 
-Piazza. HI 
Covering Amputated Limbs.208 
Cranberry Crop. 44 
Cress, Water.163, 206 
Crocus.231 
Crops, Assisting Growmg.102 
Cry.stallizcd Fruit . 24 
Cucumbers.122 
Cud, Chewing tbe.154 
Cultivating Too Much Ground..., 62 
Cultivation, Shallo^v.102 
Curagoa.174 
Currants, Black.115 
-Cultivation of. 84 
-Select List of. 44 
Cut Flowers, Revhung. 89 
Cuttiug.s, Grape.209 
-Raising Trees from.214 
-Root.208 
Cut-wonns.136 
-Corn.163 
Cyclamens.148 
-Persian.. 29 
Daffodils.231 
Dahlias, Propagating. .220 
Dandelion Culture.62, 237 
Daisies, Doulilo. 7 
Dai.sy, Longfellow. 7 
Datura arborca.220 
Diantlms. 27 
Dicontra spcctabills.26, 233 
Dicffenbachia.48 
Digging and Storing Roots.182 
Dining h l.a Mexicana.138 
-Rooms, Enlarging.131 
Dogwood, Red.130 
Dormant Pl.ants.230 
Drainage, Importance of. 88 
Dr,awiug-room Decorations.218 
Drill or Hand .Seeding. 42 
Drought, Australian.191 
Drying 'romatoos.43,171 
Dutch Bulbs.180,232 
E.ating Hot Bread.194 
Echoverla motallioa.109 
Economical Propagation.128 
Economy, Mistaken. 22 
Edging Flower Bods, Hardy 
Plants for. 80 
Edgings, Box. 110 
Educators, Parks as..170 
Election, A Grape. 24 
Electric Bouquets. 219 
Elm.214 
Embellishing a AViudow.. 
Emulsions, Kerosene. 
84 
England, Orchid Culture In,...., 
Escbscboltzia... 107 
Essentials in a’GoodLaAvn. 55 
Eucalyptus.. 
— Globulus in Ireland. .i^j^ 
Euebaris Amazonica.88,220 
Euonymus Americana.igg 
-atropurpurea..igg. 
Evaporating Fniits. 184 
Evergreens.90,214 
-Protecting Young. 214 
-Pruning.170 
Exhibitions, Gladiolus. 172 
-Neighborhood.-.172 
Exterminating Sorrel.142 
Fair Season, Tbe.164 
Fall Plowing.226 
Farm Garden. 42 
Farming, Bob Burdette on.134 
Ferns, Ralsmg, Prom Seed. 68 
Ferrets.193 
Fertilizers.62 
-Asbes as. 2 
-Asparagus.183 
-Strawberry.228 
Ficus Indica.174 
Fire-place Decorations.218 
Flamingo Plant.129 
Flora of Japan. 50 
Floral Decorations at Home.218 
Florida’s Staple Crops.■.64 
Floiu-, Biittered.195 
-Wood.219 
Flower Beds, Arrangement of.... 66 
-Hardy Plants for Edging. 86 
-SoUfor. 67 
-Culture in Boston.218 
-Garden — Seasonable EUnts, 
Jan., 6; Feb., 26; March, 46; 
April, 66; May, 86; Jime, 106; 
July, 126; Aug., 146; Sept., 166; 
Oct., 186; Nov., 210; Deo.230 
-Girls, Hawaiian.173 
-Loving City. 50 
-Mission, A Royal.215 
-Pots, Home-made. 88 
-Washing.188 
-Seeds, Autumn-sovra.210 
Flowers, A City of.235 
-A House of.216 
-at Funerals. 26 
-Cut, Reviving. 89 
-Preserving Cut.28 
-Rough on.107 
-Showy. .107 
-AVindow Boxes of.89 
-Winter. 232 
-Preparing for.169 
Forests, Planting.^.: -H® 
Forget-me-not. .166 
Porks, Spading.'IV.82 
Four o’clock.'.161 
Franco, Asparagus Culture in...• 70 
-Gardcnoi-s in. 151 
Frccslas.168 
Frost, Preventing.181 
Frozen Plants.81® 
Fruit, Crystallized.®1 
-Gai-dcn, Seasonable Hints, 
Jmi., 4; Fob., 24; March, 44; April, 
04; May, 84; Juno, 104; JuU- 
124; Aug., 144; Sept., 164; Oct., 
184; N05^,208; Doc. 
-Lists. 
-Morebauts Necessary. 
-Nomouclaturc, Rovlsod . .146,1^ 
-Trees by tbo Line Fence. 
-Lyo AVasb for. ^ 
-^—Scraping of.. ^ 
-Summer Pruning.^ 
-Washes for.jj 
Fruits, Bearing Ago of.. ■ . 
