The Gardener's Monthly 



AND HORTICULTURIST. 



EDITED BY THOMAS MEEHAN, 



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CONTENTS OF THE MARCH NUMBER. 



SEASONABLE HINTS: 



Flower Garden and Pleasure Ground 05-70 



Green House and House Gardening ?(>-77 



Fruit and Vegetable Gardening 77-81 



CORRESPONDENCE : 



Mosaiculture. 



Notes on Rhododendrons and some Evergreens.. 



Lilium Parvum 



The Largest Umbrella Pine 



La Belle Carnation 



The Verbena 



Improved Sash for the Hot-Bed 



Natural Peach Stones , 



On Some Old Fruits 



Pruning Full Grown Fruit Trees 



The Tomato Season Prolonged 



The Eucalyptus Globulus a Failure 



Brodiecea Californica 



Hortensia or Hortensis , .., 



Pear Tree Blight in Ohio 



EDITORIAL NOTES : 



Frost and Hardiness — The Gold-yeined Honeysuckle 

 — General Washington Rose — An Early Flowering 

 Catalpa — Gaillardia Amhlyodon — La France Rose — 

 Tritomas — The Common Silk Weed — Asclepias Cor- 



nuti — Ivy — Laurentia carnosula 68-70 



Double Zonale " Wonderful " — Double Cinerarias — 

 Waban Conservatories, Boston, Mass. — The Victoria 



Regia. 



76 



Fruit of the Black Hills — Rossignold — Apples for 

 North-eastern New Jersey — New Peaches — Apricots in 

 Boston — The Secretary Grape — The Japan Persimmon. 79-80 

 Cork Trees in California — A Large White Oak — Tree 

 Planting in Minnesota — The Profit of Timber Plant- 

 ing — Preserving Oak Timber— The Value of Catalpa 



Timber — Commercial Classes of Forest Trees — Sweet 



Fern for Tanning— Wood Pavements 81-85 



Interpretation nf Varying Forms — Botanical Garden 

 in Fairmount Park — The Eucalyptus in our Climate — 

 Ripening of the Persimmon — New United States Plants 

 — Canbya Candida — Graft Hybrids— The Drop or Bag 

 Worm— Gilia Parryje- Music and Plants— The use of 



Honeyed Secretions 84-88 



The Plant Life of Norway— Burning of Lee's Green- 

 houses — Proceedingsof the Georgia State Horticultural 

 Society — The Early Nurserymen of Illinois — Hand- 

 Book of Practical Landscape Gardening — The Bulletin 

 No. 1 of the Illinois Museum of Natural History — 

 Catalogue of A. M. C. Jongkindt Coniuck, Dedems- 

 vaart. Netherlands- Mr.W.T. Harding— The Garden- 

 er's Monthly— Waterer's Rhododendrons 92-98 



The American Pomological Society — ^State Horticul- 

 tural and Pomological Societies 96 



FORESTRY.: 81-83 



NATURAL HISTORY AND SCIENCE „ 83-90 



LITERATURE, TRAVELS & PERSONAL NOTES 90-94 



HORTICULTURAL SOCIETIES 94-96 



QUERIES: • 



Planting Pyracantha — Origin of the Weeping Yellow, 

 or "Plippery " Elm — Exochorda grandiflora — A Beau- 

 tiful Specimen of Euonymus 70 



Ferneries — Roses — Sulphur for Red Spider — Name of 

 Plant— Names of Plants — Flowering of Chinese Prim- 

 rose 76-77 



Mulched Peach Trees — Borers In Peach Trees — Lay- 

 ered Grape Vines — Pruning Grape Roots — Rotting of 



Grapes in a Grapery 80-81 



Fertilization by Insect Agency— The Verbena Rust — 

 Zelkova "Crensta" — Chemical Hygroscope — Name of 



, Plant— Insect on the Grape 88-90 



^ feees and Clover • 94 



