The Gardener's Monthly 



AND HORTICULTURIST. 



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CONTENTS OF THE JANUARY NUMBER. 



SEASONABLE HINTS : 



Flower Garden and Pleasure Ground 1-8 



Green House and House Gardening S-14 



Fruit and Vegetable Gardening 14-'20 



CORRESPONDENCE: 



Hardy Rhod -dendrons 2 



Double Lilium Auratum '2 



Consider the Flowers of the Field 3 



Mosaiculture 3 



Verbena Rust 9 



Verbena Culture 9 



Verbena Rust 10 



Verbena Rust and Verbena Growing 11 



Tiie , erbena 11 



Flowering of the Eucharis Amazonica under Difficul- 

 ties 11 



Southern Thornless Raspberry 15 



The Tomato .Season Prolinged 15 



A Good Grape Manual 15 



The Blenheim Pippin 16 



Ligneous Marvels 20 



Value of a Tree 21 



Prairie Flowers 24 



Hortensia or Hortensis 28 



EDITORIAL NOTES : 



Preserving Spikes of Pampas-grass — Weeping Sequoia 

 Gi?antea — Beautiful Specimens of Trees — Euonyraus 

 radicaus variegata— Fruiiiug of Chionanthus Virgin- 



icus 5-6 



The Verbena — Musa ensete — Duchess of Edinburg 



Rose — Covent Garden Bouquets 12 



Bananas in Califarnia — Vicomtesse hericart de Thury 

 — Raspberry Culture — A Large Bunch of Grapes — Fall 

 Strawberries — The Ben Davis Apple — Rihston Pippin 

 Apple — The Alexander Apple — Three Perfect Crops of 

 Pears in One Season — Hale's Early Peach — Hale's 

 Early Peach in England — Peach Plum in Oregon — 

 The I'hylloxera in California — The Champion Wind 

 Engine — Pruning lor Wood and Pruning lor Fruit 16-18 



Tree Planting in Canada — .\ddress of Burnet Lan- 

 dreth — Pinus Lambertiana— The Pitch Pine — Torreya 

 taxifo'ia as Dur.ible Timber — Commissioner of Fores- 

 try — Large Oak Trees — Forests in Europe — Alder and 

 Sweet Fern in Tanning— The Profits of Oak Timber... 22-23 

 Pritchardia filifera — Variations in Coniferte — Wear- 

 ing out of Varieiies — ,\bsorblive Power of Clay 25-27 



"To all Wanting Homes." — I-'airmount Park — The 

 Royal Oak— Nurseries of HargisA Sommer — S.S. Jack- 

 son — Wild Flowers of America — Vick's Floral Guide 

 — Chicago Botanic Garden — .^yreASon's Manual — C.C. 



Bragdon— Dr. John Skilleu Houghton 29 



Pennsylvania Fruit Growers' Society — The Western 

 New York Horticultural Society — .\ wards at the Cen- 

 tennial 80-32 



NEW PLANTS: 



Purple-leaved Daphne — A Cream Colored Red Cedar — 

 New Cornelian Cherry — A New Pinus— Crocus spe- 

 ciosus— Ampelopsis japonica — Morsea (iris) fimbriata 



— Saxifraga japonica 6-7 



Dianella Aspera— Double Geranium, Bishop Wood — 

 Sweet-scented Rhododendrons— Pterodiscu* speciosus 12-13 

 Lilium Humboldtianum 25 



NEW FRUITS: 



New Apples— St Augustine Grape— The James Veitch 

 Strawberry— Stump Apple— "Olivet " Cherry 18-19 



FORESTRY 20-24 



NATURAL HISTORY AND SCIENCE „.. 24-28 



LITERATURE, TRAVELS & PERSONAL NOTES 28-30 



HORTICULTURAL SOCIETIES 30-32 



QUERIES: 



White Berry Pyracantha— Name of Plant— Lawn 



Grass for Oregon — .\kebia quinata seeding 7 



Butter from the Cydonia japonica— Pear Blight- 

 Highland Hardy Ra.spberry „ 19-20 



Eucalyptus globulus in Vermont »'•• "23-24 



Horticultural Science — Tree Growth 27-28 



Carnation Pinks- Foreign and American Tuberoses... 30 



