The Gardener's Monthly 



AND HORTICULTURIST. 



EDITED BY THOMAS MEEHAN, 



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CONTENTS OF THE MAY NUMBER. 



SEASONABLE HINTS: 



Flower Garden and Pleasure Ground 129-134 



Greenhouse and House Gardening 134-141 



Fruit and Vegetable Gardening 142-149 



CORRESPONDENCE: I 



Notes on Trees. &c 130 | 



Peat and Rhododendrons 131 | 



Rhododendrons 131 



The Chinese Ailanthus 132 



Pansies 133 



Nasty Greenhouses 135 



Chamsedorea 135 



Notes on a Summer Tour 136 



Plants which Endure Dryness 137 



Gladiolus and Canna 139 



The Strawberry Leaf-Roller 143 



Carbolic Acid for Insects 144 



Keeping Tomatoes 145 



The Main Grape 145 



Pear Tree Blight 145 



On Self-Fertilization and Cross-Fertilization of 



Flowers 149 



Gardening Gossip of the Olden Time 153 



Centennial Exposition — Pomological Section 160 



EDITORIAL NOTES : 



Zanthoceras sorbifolia — Eflfect of Wind on Ever- 

 greens — Rose Magna Charta — Lonicera fragrantis- 

 sima — Early Flowering Plants — Large Sequoia gi- 



gantea 133-134 



Fandanus utilis — Trachelospermum (Rhyncosper- 

 mum,) Jasminoides — Improved Cinerarias — Flower- 

 ing of Agave Shawii — Hyacinth Leaves 139-140 



A Good Dwarf Celery — Monstrous Asparag^is — A 

 Mother Apple — The Alexander Peach— Peach Cul- 

 ture in the North 146-14T 



Nympbiealutea — Hollyberries — Seedingof the Horse 

 Radish — Poisoning by Ampelopsis Virginica — Dou- 

 ble-headed Calla — Gilia Parryte — Echinocactus Simp- 



soni 150-15e 



The Centennial Pomological Judges— The Tumble 

 Weed— Horticultural Pioneers in the West— Conser- 

 vatory of Mr. Henry C. Gibson — The Native Coun- 

 try of the Jerusalem Artichoke— 'Irrigation for the 

 Farm Garden, or Orchard — Transactions of the Mas- 

 sachusetts Horticultural Society — Kinsey's Cata- 

 logue, Dayton, O — Messrs. T. T. Southwick & Co. 



Music 154-158 



American Pomological Society I.TO-IBO 



NATURAL HISTORY AND SCIENCE 149-153 



LITERATURE, TRAVELS 4 PERSONAL NOTES 153-139 



HORTICULTURAL SOCIETIES 159-160 



QUERIES: 



Propagating Hyacinths from Leaves — Monstrous 

 Abutilon — Floweringof Primula — Salvia marmorats 

 — Beauty of Glazenwood— Glass for Horticultural 

 Purposes— The "Ohio Lady's Experience" — Hot 



Water Boilers 140-141 



The Fruit Crops in Ohio— Black Fungus in a 

 Grapery— The Blenheim Pippin Apple — The Pear 

 Blight— The f rue Wilson's Albany Seedling Straw- 

 berry — Inarching Grapevines — Stirring the Surface 



Soil of Orchards 147-140 



Eucalyptus in Philadelphia— Nursery Wheat — Rot- 

 ting of Seeds in Spring 152-153 



The Thirtieth Verse— The Jerusalem Artichoke 158-159 



