Eftablifhed by A. J. Downing in 1846.

PETER B. MEAD, Editor.

GEO. E. WOODWARD, Associate Ed.

MEAD & WOODWARD, Proprietors & Publishers, 37 Park Row, Hew York.

Vol, l7 - No. 11.- Whole No. 197.

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Contents Of The November Number: Art. Page

I. - Hints on Grope Culture. - No. XX. By The Editor................................. 489

II. - Landscape Adornment. - No. XXVII.. - Contracting. By Geo. E. Woodward.......... 493

III. - Strawberries - Planting............................................................ 493

IV. - Review of the Season in Egypt. - By A. Barcock, Union Co., Ill..................... 495

V. - The Cherry, with a Descriptive List. By E. Manning, Harrisburgh, Ohio............ 406

VI. - Fraud in Seeds. By One who Knows Beans......................................... 499

VII. - A Short Ramble. By W., Washington Heights....................................... 502

VIII. - Interior Views. No. III. - Exotic Graperies. By Fox Meadow...................... 507

IX. - Rogers's Hybrid. No. 15 . - By the Editor.......................................... 510

X. - Rejuvcnatiug Old Houses. No. IV. - By MYRON B. Benton.......................... 512

XI. - The Practical Papers. - No. VIII. By Olapod Quill................................. 514

XII. - Grape Wine for the Milliou. By an Amor-ite....................................... 515

XIII. - The Adiroudac Grape. By the Editor.............................................. 518

XIV. - The Prairies Again. By Charles S. Kenderdine, Richmond, Iudiana................. 519

A Word for Ourselves, 521 - The Delaware Grape, 522 - Fruit for Our Wounded and Sick Soldiers; Death of Mr. William Reid, 523 - Figs; Horticultural Societies; Evening Party Apple; Russell's Seedling Strawberry; To Advertisers, 524 - Wanted, 525 - Books, Catalogues, Etc. Received, 525 - Correspondence, 520 - Address of President Wilder, 530.

Illustrations

1. The Evening Party Apple......................................................Frontispiece.

2. Mode of Training Grape-Vines........................................................490