The Gardener's Monthly 



AND HORTICULTURIST. 



EDITED BY THOMAS MEEHAN, 



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CONTENTS OF THE JULY NUMBER. 



SEASONABLE HINTS: 



Flower Garden and Pleasure Ground 104-199 



Greenhouse and House Gardening 199-204 



Fruit and Vegetable Gardening 204-209 



CORRESPONDENCE: 



The Ailanthus 191 



Culture of Hardy Rhododendrons 194 



Beautv of Glazenwood Rose 1W4 



Gas Lime 19'> 



Diniilhus 196 



About GreenhonsHs 200 



Heatine Small Greenhouses by a Coal Stove 200 



Flowerintrof Fuchsia Procurabens 201 



The Blenheim Pippin Apple 206 



The Blenheim Pippin 206 



The Blenheim Pippin Apple 206 



Experiments in Timber Raising in Kansas 210 



Notes from Yuba County, Cal 213 



Letter from California 218 



Encouragement to the Production of Novelties 219 



Rhymes, and Recollections of a Cactus Man 219 



EDITORIAL NOTES : 



The Sweet William — " Fragaria arborea." — To 

 Moisten Dusty Roads — Deterioration of Grasses on 

 a Lawn — The Erythronium, or Dog's tooth Violet — 



The TuipTree 197-198 



Panicum plicatum variegatum — Button-hole Roses 

 — Flowering Cyclamens — Permauent Ivy for Bou- 

 quet Vases — Plumbago rosea — The Beauty of the 

 Eucalyptus— Burlingtoniafragrans — A Fine Head of 

 Thomas Hogg Hydiangea — Maiden Hair Fern for 

 Bouquets — Falling of I- lower Buds in the Camellia 

 — Buuvardia jdsminiflora — Portable Hot Water 



Boiler 201-204 



Preserving Fruit Trees from Grasshoppers — Apricots 

 in California — Strawberries from Seed — Apples for 

 England— The Northern Spy Apple in the West — 

 Best Stock for the Early Richmond Cherry — The 

 Gros ("Iman Grape — Size of Pot-raised Pears — 

 Sending I'eaches to Ireland — Importing Early Vege- 

 tables — The Oyster Plant — Forcing Asparagus — 

 Forced Fruiis aud Vegetables 20S-208 



The Yellow Pines— Forestry in Massachusetts — ^ 



Paper from Cacius- — Pear Timber— Timber Conifers 

 in Massachusetts — l-'orest Seedlings — The Value of 

 Timber in the .Scotch Highlands — 'Ihe Nellie Tree, 

 Celtis .Ausiralis— Forests of Sweden — The European 



Walnut— Growing Wood for Fuel 211-213 



Magnificent Collection of Fungi and the Lower 

 Cryptogams— Blue Gla!>K — The Sleep of Plants- 

 Northern Limits of Animal and Vegetable Life — 

 The Shane of the Earth — Herbarium Specimens — 

 Origin of the Phylloxera— Paralfin Oil — E.xposure of 



Seeds to Cold 214-217 



Grape Culture in England— Royal Patronageof Hor- 

 ticulture — Letter l'r"in Mr. Jacob Moore — Origin of 

 Ihe Name '• Walnut." — The Age of Orange Trees - 

 Repton's Tomb — English National Emblematic 

 Plants — The Name Elm — The Evergreen — State En- 

 tomologist of Missouri— Procerdings of tiie New 

 Jersey State Hort Society — New Professors — His- 

 tory 01 the United States— A Dahlia Catalogue— 

 A Hardy, Herbaceous Catalogue — The London Gar- 

 den — Duraud's Strawberry Culture 221-224 



NEW OR RARE PLANTS: 



Pyrus Maulei — Phellodendron auiurense — New 



Magnolias 198-19i» 



New Ro«e, Queen of Bedders — Hydrangea Thomas 

 HogK — Platycerium Willinckii — A DoubU; WbiUj 

 Bedding Lobelia 204 



FORESTRY 210-218 



NATURAL HISTORY AND SCIENCE ^ 213-217 



LITERATURE, TRAVELS & PERSONAL NOTES „ 218-224 



SCRAPS AND QUERIES: 



Fine Scfadooitys — Weedsiu Lawns — Dividing Herb- 

 aceous Plains 109 



Stock lor the Cherry — Gooseberry Worm — Trees 

 injured by (Jil— May BeHles on the Raspberry — The 



Prickly Comlrey 208-209 



Freezing of the Sap in Plants 217 



Tumble Weed - 224 



