The Gardener's Monthly 



AND HORTICULTURIST. 



EDITED BY THOMAS MEEHAN, 



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CONTENTS OF THE JUNE NUMBER. 



SEASONABLE HINTS: 



Flower Garden and Pleasure Ground Ifil-KiT 



Greenhouse and House Gardening 167-171 



Fruit and Vegetable Gardening 171-175 



COBBESPONDENCE : 



Old Things Become New — Magnolias Ifi2 



Verbenas and Roses in Iowa.'.....'. ]Ci2 



California Plants East Ifi:^ 



The Weigelas ., ^ M;i 



Ampelopbis Veitchii t 16.5 



Notes on the Adiantum Farlejense and Double 



Primulus 167 



Hot Water on Insects 168 



The New So-called Hybrid Tea Rose, "Beauty of 



Glazenwood" 168 



Fruit at the North 172 



Apriccitsin Boston _ 173 



The Birkett Pear 173 



The Eucalyptus in California 176 



Timlier Notes from California .' 176 



Tumble Weed 179 



Fertilization of Clover Blossoms ISO 



Scientific Theories 181 



Ou Seli'-Fertilizatlon and CrobS-Fertilization of 



Flowers ISl 



"Patented" hruits 18t> 



Recollections of Australia 187 



EDITORIAL NOTES: 



Evergreens at St. Louis — Lilium catesba;! — German 



Asters — Abies Engelinanni ir,', 



Clematis calycina — Improving Old Favorites — Roof 



Gardens 168-lGO 



Trained Fruit Trees— Illustrations of Fruit — Pack- 1 



ing Pears- Long Continuous Bi'aring— A While 

 Dewberry, &c— Gary's "Hold on" I'each — A lloise- 

 power Vineyard — .lapan Persimriion — Fertilizing 

 Figs in Smyrna — Comiver's ( olossal A'-t)aragiis — To- j 



luatofs — To Coo U Jerusalem Artichokes nS-lT.S | 



Tar, Rosin and Turpenlim — Forents of Ma-sa<hu- 

 s»tt.s— Trees fur Colorado — Largn Chestnut Tie > — 

 The Ash as a Timber Tree — Kucalypius in Snull) 

 Carolina — The Yellow or Sborl-leaved Pine Wood 

 Pre.'<eivativt's — The Lumber Resources of Tulare, 

 California— The Preservation of Timber — Selecting ' 



Timber— A Tree Planting Law in California— .lapan 

 Paper— The Timber Line in the various Mountains 176-179 

 Botanical Against Common Names — Very Late 

 Blackberries — Lenimonia Calitornica, Ac— Fibre 

 Plants — The Use of Feathered Awns to some S»'eds 

 — Fleshy Fruits— Descending Sap — Light and Vege- 

 tation— New Cla.ssifiealion 01 Monocotyledons 183-185 



Ruined by bis <;re(M<hou«es — Tho.>;e Rascally Seeds- 

 men — Tornilla — A Dahlia Catalogue— How to Raise 

 Fruit — The Onion Smut — Hatching Fggs and Rais- 

 ing Poultry l.yMeansof Horse Manure— Melbourne, 

 A'ls'ralia, Botanic Garden Annual Report for 1876 — 

 Western N. Y. Hnrt. Society, Proceedings of 22d 



Annual Meeting at Rochtster, 1877 .. 188-190 



The International Exhibition Co — New York Hor- 

 ticultural .Society — Massacluisetis Horticultural So- 

 ciety— dermaiitown. Pa., Horticultural Society- 

 American Poniological Society — Horticultural Pio- 

 neers in the West 190-192 



NEW OR RARE PLANTS: 



Lilinm Hnmboldiii — LeucoplivtaBrownii — Nuttallia 

 cerasiforinis— (ioldeu-leaved Poplar— A New Dou- 

 ble White Violet — Stvrax .laponiea — Browa'lia 



Roezli — New .Japanese Hollyhock 165-166 



Cuphea Rillfie'diana — Lygodium scaidens — Sarra- 

 cenia Moon ana — The IMirjile leaved Ivy — '^cented 

 Geranium, "Mrs. Taylor" — Aniigonon leptopus — 

 Tai)eruamontana Caiuassa 168-170 



FORESTRY 176-179 



NATURAL HISTORY AND SCIENCE 179-186 



LITERATURE, TRAVFLS A PIRSONAL NOTES 186-190 



HORTICULTURAL S0C1ETII.S 19P-192 



SCRAPS AND QUERIES: 



S'ernbergia lutea — Treatment of Ilaidv Azaleas — 



Planting Lilies. '. 166-167 



Culture of the Calla Lily— .lob's Tears — Heating 

 Greenhouses by a C»'al S{ov« — Flowering of ticus 



elaslica— Culture of the Anlbolyza 170-171 



Thii Double-headed Callaf — Vaiiaiions in Pecan 



Nut? — Fri-eziiig of Sap-— I'lielloilendion 183-186 



The (Vntcnnial KxjHisition — Notes ou the Centen- 

 nial Pomolot'ical Exhibit 192 



