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| Political Economy of the Apple | [1] |
| A few Flowers easily raised | [16] |
| Flower-Farming | [21] |
| A Letter from the Farm | [25] |
| The Cost of Flowers | [28] |
| Haying | [31] |
| The Value of Robins | [34] |
| Sounds of Trees | [39] |
| Unveiled Nonsense | [43] |
| Natural Order of Flowers | [46] |
| Roses | [49] |
| Chestnuts | [51] |
| Green Peas | [55] |
| Hens | [58] |
| Farming | [60] |
| Gardening under Difficulties | [63] |
| Corn | [66] |
| Dandelions | [69] |
| How to beautify Homes | [72] |
| Birch and Aspen | [75] |
| Autumn | [78] |
| Plant Trees! | [81] |
| Farewell to "Summer Rest" | [84] |
| Preliminary | [87] |
| Our Creed | [88] |
| Almanac for the Year | [89] |
| Educated Farmers | [98] |
| An Acre of Words about Aker | [101] |
| Farmer's Library | [105] |
| Nine Mistakes | [107] |
| Agricultural Societies | [108] |
| Shiftless Tricks | [111] |
| Electro Culture | [114] |
| Single-Crop Farming | [117] |
| Improved Breeds of Hogs and Cattle | [119] |
| Absorbent Qualities of Flour | [122] |
| Portrait of an Anti-Book Farmer | [124] |
| Good Breeds of Cows | [128] |
| Cutting and curing Grass | [131] |
| Country and City | [133] |
| Lime upon Wheat | [134] |
| Culture of Hops | [136] |
| White Clover | [138] |
| Plowing Corn | [139] |
| Clean out your Cellars | [142] |
| When is Haying over? | [144] |
| Laying down Land to Grass | [145] |
| Theory of Manure | [149] |
| Fodder for Cattle | [151] |
| The Science of Bad Butter | [153] |
| Cincinnati, the Queen City | [157] |
| Care of Animals in Winter | [161], [243] |
| Winter Nights for Reading | [163] |
| Feathers | [163] |
| Nail up your Bugs | [165] |
| Ashes and their Use | [168] |
| Hard Times | [170] |
| Gypsum | [171] |
| Acclimating a Plow | [171] |
| Scour your Plows bright | [173] |
| Plow till it is Dry and plow till it is Wet | [174] |
| Stirring the Soil | [175] |
| Subsoil Plowing | [176] |
| Fire-Blight and Winter Killing | [177] |
| Winter Talk | [179] |
| "Shut your Mouth" | [181] |
| Spring Work on the Farm | [182] |
| Spring Work in the Garden | [185], [292] |
| Fall Work in the Garden | [190] |
| Guarding Cherry-trees from Cold | [191] |
| Shade Trees | [192], [252] |
| A Plea for Health and Floriculture | [195] |
| Keeping Young Pigs in Winter | [198] |
| Sweet Potatoes | [199] |
| Management of Bottom Lands | [199] |
| Cultivation of Wheat | [202] |
| Pleasures of Horticulture | [214] |
| Practical Use of Leaves | [215] |
| Spring Work for Public-spirited Men | [218] |
| Farmers and Farm Scenes in the West | [220] |
| Ornamental Shrubs | [224] |
| Gooseberries | [227] |
| Pulling off Potato Blossoms | [229] |
| Blading and topping Corn | [230] |
| Maple-Sugar | [231] |
| Lettuce | [237] |
| Geological Definitions | [238] |
| Draining Wet Lands | [240] |
| O dear! shall we ever be done Lying? | [242] |
| Deep Planting | [245] |
| Corn and Millet for Fodder | [245] |
| Seed Saving | [246] |
| Rhubarb | [248], [286] |
| Peas | [250] |
| Hot-beds | [253] |
| Original Recipes | [254] |
| Cooking Vegetables | [256] |
| Farmers, take a Hint | [260] |
| Mixing Paint and laying it on | [262] |
| Garden Weeds | [267] |
| Lucerne | [269] |
| Family Government | [270] |
| List of Flowers, Seeds, and Fruits | [271] |
| Garden Seeds | [274] |
| Farmers' Gardens | [277] |
| Early Days of Spring | [279] |
| Parlor Flowers | [280] |
| A Salt Recipe | [281] |
| Culture of Celery | [282] |
| Sun-flower Seed | [290] |
| Rich and Poor Land | [294] |
| Getting ready for Winter | [295] |
| Esculent Vegetables | [297] |
| Field Root Crops | [303] |
| Cultivation of Fruit-trees | [304] |
| A List of Choice Fruits | [316] |
| The Nursery Business | [319] |
| The Breeding of Fruits | [322] |
| Pruning Orchards | [327] |
| Slitting the Bark of Trees | [330] |
| Downing's Fruits of America | [332] |
| Letter from A. J. Downing | [339] |
| Attention to Orchards | [344] |
| Wine and Horticulture | [346] |
| Do Varieties of Fruit run out? | [349] |
| Strawberries | [353], [359], [364] |
| Raspberries, Gooseberries, Currants | [364] |
| Spring Work in the Orchard | [367] |
| Grapes and Grape Vines | [372], [373] |
| Autumnal Management of Fruit-trees | [374] |
| Pears grafted upon the Apple Stock | [376] |
| Seedlings from Budded Peaches | [378] |
| Care of Peach-trees | [381] |
| Renovating Peach-trees | [382] |
| An Apologue or Apple-logue | [384] |
| Select List of Apples | [385] |
| Origin of some Varieties of Fruit | [401] |
| The Quince | [403] |
| Cutting and keeping Grafts | [404] |
| Frost Blight | [405] |
| Seedling Fruits | [407] |
| Time for Pruning | [410] |
| Plums and their Enemies | [413] |
| Root Grafting | [417] |
| Blight and Insects | [419] |
| Apples for Hogs | [424] |
| The Flower Garden | [425] |
| Preparation of Seed for Sowing | [429] |
| Sowing Flower Seeds—Transplanting | [431] |
| Parlor Plants and Flowers in Winter | [432] |
| Protecting Plants in Winter | [439] |
| To preserve Dahlia Roots | [440] |
| Hedges | [441] |
| Watering Trees, etc. | [443] |
| Labels for Trees | [444] |
| Transplanting Evergreens | [445] |
| Flowers, Ladies, and Angels | [446] |
| Horticultural Curiosities | [447] |
| The Corn Crop | [451] |
| Potato Crop | [460] |
| Potting Garden Plants for Winter Use | [468] |
| Mary Howitt's Use of Flowers | [469] |
| What are Flowers good for? | [470] |
| The Blight in the Pear-tree | [471] |
| Progress of Horticulture in Indiana | [489] |
| Browne's Poultry Yard | [495] |
| Close of the Year | [497] |