The Gardener's Monthly 



AND HORTICULTURIST. 



EDITED BY THOMAS MEEHAN, 



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CONTENTS OF THE APRIL NUMBER. 



SEASONABLE HINTS: 



Flower Garden and Pleasure Ciround 97 104 



Greenhouse and House Gardening 104-llo 



Fruit and Vegetable Gardening 113-llfi 



CORRESPONDENCE : 



Decoration of Grounds, lic 



\Vhi*e Wa<er Lily (Nymphiea odorata) 



Magnolia Glauca 



Various Topics 



Notes by Charles Downing 



A Little Alpine Garden 



Notes on Little Known Plants 



Rhododendron House 



The Duchess of ISdinburg Rose 



Drainage 



Heating Small Vegetable or Greenhouses 



La Belle Carnation 



Obscured Gla.ss in Greenhouses 



Calla ,1'yihiopica 



Verbena Rust 



Streptocarpus Rhexii 



Seedlings of Hybrid Grapes 



The Sener Apple 



The Sicilian Nut 



Exquisite Peach 



Effect of Frost on Fruit of the Persimmon 



Self- Fertilization and Cross-Fertilization of Flowers. 



Gardening Gossip of the Oldeo Time 



Notes from California 



Recollections of Australia 



To the Far West 



Horticultural Protection 



EDITORIAL NOTES : 



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Pruning Coniferse— The Japan Maples — New Rose 

 Beauty of Glazenwood — The Hepatica 10.3-104 



American and Italian Tuberoses — Trachelaspermuui 



Jasminoides— Chlorophytum Sternbergianum 110 



McAi'ee's Aeration Apparatus— Grasshopper Machine 



A HandPlou(!h 11.5 



Time in ICvidence — Exochorda — Asclepiascornuti... ll.S-119 

 Horteusia- Plant Patents— History of the Jerusa- 

 lem Artichoke — .\ccount of Experiments for the 

 Prodjction of Hybrid Grapes— The English Winter 

 — On Parasitic Fungi— Essayon New South Wales- 

 Railways of New So.ith Wales — Nurseryman's Di- 

 rectory — Industries of Philadelphia — Catalogue of 

 S. B. Parsons & Co.— Ellwanger & Barry — Hoopes 

 Bro & Thomas — Meeting of American Association 

 for Advancement of Science — Mr. Wm..Siunders — 

 Death of Lady Smith— .\ges of Distinguished Men. 12G-128 



NATURAL HISTORY AND SCIENCE 116-120 



LITERATURE, TRAVELS* PERSONAL NOTES 120-128 



NEW OR RARE PLANTS: 



New Rose, Thomas Meehan — Zonale Pelargonium — 

 Campsidium Filicifolium— NewDoubleGeranlums... ill 



NEW OR RARE FRUITS: 



The Late Peach or Walling Plum — Fox's Seedling 



Pears — Rogers' Peach — Downer Peach ]15 



QUERIES: 



104 



Magnolias — Lily Culture 



Heating a Small Conservatory— Pelargoniums and 



("reraniums— Fumigating Greenhouses 111-1].'! 



Oil for Fruit Trees—New Kochelle Raspberry- 

 French Pippin Apple— Thrips in a Cold Vinery 115-116 



Blue Glass — Climate of Coalville, TTtab — Poi.soning 



by Rhus 119 



Hybrid Grapes— Tumble Weed— Contiibutions to 



the Magazine 128 



