The Gardener's Monthly 



AND HORTICULTURIST. 



EDITED BY THOMAS MEEHAN, 



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CONTENTS OF THE 



SEASONABLE HINTS: 



Flower Garden and Pleasure Ground 3",:i-358 



Greenhouse and House Gardening 35S-361 



Fruit and Vegetable Gardening 331-367 



CORRESPONDENCE: 



How Bedding Plants Might be Arranged 354 



A New Method of Propagating Exochorda grandi- 



flora 3.1.5 



Idesia Polycarpa S-'^C 



My Garden _ 3.^6 



Double Chinese Primroses 356 



Propagation of Richardia ^thiopica: the Calla Lily 359 

 The Diospyrus Kaki, or Japanese Persimmon, in 



Calilornia 302 



Notes from K ntucky 303 



Ohio Notes 363 



Fruit Culture Among Farmers 363 



Notes on the Season 364 



Restoring Dead Seeds 369 



Notes Suggested by the "Tumble Weed" 369 



EDITORIAL NOTES : 



Vitis heterophylla— Our Autumns — Fall Colored 

 Bedding— Beauty by Moonlight— Anemone japonica 

 —The Crimson Boursaull Rose— Growing the V c- 



toria Lily in the Open Air— Wistaria Sinensis.- 3.">6-357 



Price of Flowers in America— Pampas Grass — Thos. 

 Hogg Hidrangea-Curiods Etlects of Grafting Cule- 

 usej_Popular Appreciati- n of Cheap Flowers— The 

 Tritoma in Decoration- Spring Bulbs— Flower of 



Fourcroya 359-360 



Twig Blight on the Apple Tree— American Black- 

 berries in England— Peaches in Texas— The Cata- 

 wissa Raspberry— Rot in Grapes— Eating the Best 

 — Late Grapes— Numerous Varieties of Apples — Will 

 It Pay to Thin the Fruit?— Nut Farming in Cali- 

 fornia - 3';5-:i66 



Cryptomeria japonica— ?ine Tree Oil— The Cork 



DECEMBER NUMBER. 



Tree in California— American (ium Arabic — Growth 

 of the Pecan-nut Hickory — Sicilian Sumach— The 

 Lacquer Tree— Aralia papyrifera- A Valuable Oak. 367-369 

 Our "Finger Grass" in Europe — Aiding Pollen in 

 Fertilization — About Kpiuces and Firs— A New En- 

 emy to the Pine Tree— Respiration and Assimila- 

 tion in Plants— Artificial Ivory 870-372 



European Notes by the Editor, No. 4— Arboretum 

 Segrezianum — Corrections — Guano — The Soldiers' 

 Home at Dayton, Ohio— Business Enterprise— Thos. 



S Kennedy, of Louisville 373-377 



The Pennsylvania Fruit Growers' Society- Organi- 

 zations for Town Embellishments — Address of Mar- 

 shall P. Wilder 378-380 



NEW OR RARE PLANTS: 



Mentha Gibraltica— New Weeping Oak— Golden 



Tulip Tree— Pachystima myrsinites 3.57 



Steuocarpus Cuuninghaml 360-361 



FORESTRY - 307-369 



NATURAL HISTORY AND SCIENCE 369-373 



LITERATURE, TRAVELS & PERSONAL NOTES 873-378 



HORTICULTURAL SOCIETIES 378-380 



SCRAPS AND QUERIES: 



The Ivy— Exochorda grandiflora— Flowering of Old 

 Hyacinth Bulbs -Perisirophe angustifolia — The 



Sexes of Salisburia .S57-.358 



Cure for Mealy Bug 361 



How to Make a Grape Border— Persimmons— The 

 Climate and the Foreign Grape — Discussion on 



Pear Blight 366-367 



Burying Roots— Freezing of the Sap of Plants- 

 Wearing Out of Varioties— Different Degrees of 



Thickness In the Annual Wood Circles of Trees .372-373 



Epheraeron Flower— Napoleon's Willow— Sending 

 Stamps for Answers— Rules for Judges 377-378 



