The Gardener's Monthly 



AND HORTICULTURIST. 



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CONTENTS OF THE FEBRUARY NUMBER. 



SEASON AB LE HIKTS; 



Flower Garden and Pleasure Ground 33-39 



Green House and House Gardening 4n-40 



Fruit »nd Vegetable Gardening iii-oi 



CORRESPONDENCE: 



Zelkova Creusta 34 



Magnolias •'■' 



Rhododendrons •'*' 



California Aquilegias 37 



Pot Drainage •*' 



" Forcing Tender Roses." -il 



Cultivation of the Zonale Geranium for Exhibition. 



Plan for a Small Vegetable House 



Decaying Pear and Apple Trees 



Disease in Pears 



Two Giod Pears 



Facts Relative to "Rain-Fall and the Lakes." 



Horiicultural Protection 



Land and Game Birds of New England 



Recollections of Australia 



EDITORIAL NOTES: 



Lily Culture — Acer colchicum rubruu:— The Shade 



Trees of Washington— The Periwinkles 37-3S 



Orchid Culture— Maiden Uair Ferns- Gas and Oil 



Light ^ 



Fruit Synonyms — Thinning Fruit — Vegetable Eating 



Peach Disease in California — Peach Disease in the 



South— American Blackberries in England— The Cor- 

 nish Gilliflower— TheBaldwin Apple— Cultivated Pine 

 Apples— Exquisite Peach— Fall Fruiting Strawberries 

 —Hardiness of Wilson's Early Blackberry— The Maine 

 Grape— The English Walnut— Jerusalem Artichokes.. 49-61 

 The Beech in Indiana— Walnut for Timber— Foreign 

 Trees- Premiums for Forests— Wild Cherry Timber- 

 Native Trees for Timber— Sweet Gum as Tan Bark 52-53 



Fertilization of Flowers through Insect Agency— Evo- 

 lution in Plants — Vegetation of Bermuda — Our Nativ« 

 Lilies— Fertilization in Beans— Evolution — The Ar- 

 nold Arboretum— Potato Moth 54-t6 



Hoiticiilture at the Centennial — Loss of a Subscriber 

 — The Woes of an Editor — Rambling Widow — Ten in 

 Georgia— A Large Plane Tree — Jonah's Gouid — Origin 

 ofthel-eek — The Eucalyptus in Me.\ico— The Woods' 

 Vineyard at Camden— The Horse Chestnut — Memorial 

 Trees— Building up Attractive Country Places — Hon. 

 Marshall P. Wildei— Mr. Parker Earlc— Report of the 

 U. S. Deptrtmi-nt of Agriculture for 1875— The Illus- 

 trated Annua' Register of Rural Affairs for 1877 — 

 Vick's Flower and Vegela'ile Garden — The American 

 Naturalist — The Canada Farmer — The Raisers of the 



best Riis s 62-64 



NEW PLANTS: 



Polemoniuin conferlum — .Spir;ea palmata — Purple- 

 leaved Giape Vint — The Californian Chestnut— Acon- 



itum japiinicum 38 



Double Poinsett^ — Golden Maiden Hair Fern — Winter 

 Flower!^ Carnation: — Fuchsia proeurabenE — Azalea 

 Indica, Empereur du Bresil — Triomphe des Doubles 



Blancs Azaloo 44 



Thf Japan Persimmon — The James Veitch Strawberry 

 Captain Jack Strawberry— French Pippin Apple— The 



.Swenker Apjile- 51-52 



FORESTRY ~ 52-53 



N.\TURAL HISTORY AND SCIENCE ., 54-58 



LITERATURE, TRAVELS & PERSONAL NOTES 58-64 



QUERIES: 



Names of Plants— Injury to a Linden Tree— Antigon- 

 on lep'opus — The best Sciadopitys verticillata — Varie- 

 gated Elder- Grafting Magnolias 39 



Starting Cyclamens— Trees for Protecting Green- 

 houses — Red Spider - 45 



Grease for Pear Trees — The Sicilian Hazelnut — Straw- 

 berries for Market — Name of Apples 52 



Range of the Tulip Tree— Eucalyptus in Ohio— For- 

 ests and Rain fall 63 



Singular Analogy In Darlingtonia and Sarracenia — 

 The Purpose of Honeyed Secretions— Climate of Cali- 

 fornia — Arundo conspicua — California Lilies— Name 

 of Plant— Like Producing Like 56-58 



