The Gardener's Monthly 



AND HORTICULTURIST.. 



.EDITED BY THOMAS MEEHAN, 



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CONTENTS OF THE AUGUST NUMBER. 



SEASONABLE HINTS: 



Flower Garden and Pleasure Ground 225-233 



Greenhouse and House Gardening 23.3-239 



Fruit and Vegetable Gardening 239-244 



CORRESPONDENCE: 



The Ailanthus 



Rhododendron Calil'ornicum 



Cercis Japonica— Japan Judas Tree 



Laurus Sassafras 



Notes on Rare Plants of Southern Utah 



Sedum Glaucura 



A Couple of California Fritillarlas or Rice Roots 



The Viburnum Plicatum 



Camellias in Cold Frames 



Impioved Cinerarias 



Adiantum Farleyense as a Room Plant 



Bougaiuvillifa Spectabilis 



Tumble Woi'd Again 



Cycas Revoluta not the Sago Palm 



Rhymes, and Recollections of aCactus Man 



Burdett's Island and Orchard in the Niagara River.. 



EDITORIAL NOTES : 



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The Honey Locust in Canada— Abies Engelmannii 

 —The Daffodil— A Large Collection of Gladiolus- 

 Double Blossom Peaches— The Japan Judas Tree- 

 Hardy Ericas— Rhododendrons at Boston— Orna- 

 mental Hawthorns— Darlingtonia Californica— Hy- 

 drangea paniculata— Callfornian Conifers — Propa- 

 gation of Exoclioida grandlflora 229-230 



Physianthus altaens— The Artillery Plant for Win- 

 dow Gardens — Sericographis Ghiesbreghtiana — A 

 Conservatory on the Roof of a Hotel— White Bou- 

 quet Flowers— Kennedya rubicunda— Culture of 

 Richardia (Calla) .Ethioplca—Nierembergia gracilis 

 as a Window-Plant— The Ivy-leaved Geranium— To 

 Prepare Vegetable Mould Quickly — Solanums— 

 Leaves for GarnishingFruit-To Preserve the Natu- 

 ral Colors of Dried Plants— Bouquet Flowers— Best 



Tea Rose 2.34-237 



Wearing out of Varieties of Apples— Scion and Stock 

 —War on the Insects— Bearing Age of Pear Trees- 

 Packing American Apples — Origin of the Los An- 

 geles or Mission Grape— Hardiness of the Japan 

 Persimmon— The Apple State— The Wilder Pear- 

 Popular English Apples— Billyeus Late October 

 Peach— Early Beatrice and Early Rivers Peaches — 

 The Turner Raspberry— Grape Forcing— N ew White 



Grapes— GrosColman Grape — The Sabre Pea — Dan- 

 delion Salad— Celpry Fly— Carrots 240-245 



Torreya ta.xifolia — Large White Oak in Michigan — 

 Growing Chestnuts from Seed — The White Ash in 

 New England— Forest-planting in France— A New 

 Produtt from the Pine — Prizes for Arboriculture &c. 244-24G 

 Fleshy Fruits— Fire-proof Wood — Soaking Seeds in 

 Boiling Water— The Blue Glass Controversy — Inter- 

 nal Heat of Plant!- — The American Association — 

 Double Flower.s — Varying Results of Climate — In- 

 sect Fertilization 247-249 



The Plural of Botanical Names — LemmoniaCalfor- 

 nica — Grasshoppt-r Machines — The Satin Flower — 

 The Cactus in Upholstery — A New Forage I^lant — 

 Bothered l>y the Ecglish Name — A Prosperous Illi- 

 nois Nursery— History of the Golden Pippin Apple 

 — Origin ol Some Old Apple Names — The Tree of 

 the Ble.ssed Virgin near Cairo — Dartmouth College 

 &c. — Rot ert B. Parsons — Obituary — American Po- 

 mological Society — Dick's Garden Hand-books — 

 First Annual Report of the Ohio Fish Com 252-25& 



NEW OR RARE PLANTS : 



Cornus mascula aurea elegantlssima — The Yellow 

 Winter Aconite — Iris Iberica — Ajuga reptans- Exo- 

 chorda grandiflora — Triteleia uniflora — Japanese 

 Birches— O.xalis enneaphylla — Pyrethrum aureuui 

 lacinialum — Blumenbachla corohata — New Hardy 



Evergreen Flowering Shrub 231-232 



Improved Petunias — New Fuchsia — Lygodium scan- 

 dens — The Brisbane Lily — Improved Begonias— 

 Duemonorops palembanicus — Centaurea ruttefolla — 

 New Double Ivy-leaved Pelargonium- Anthurium 

 Crystallinum 237-239 



FORESTRY 214-246 



NATURAL HISTORY AND SCIENCE 246-249 



LITERATURE, TRAVELS & PERSONAL NOTjPS 249-256 



SCRAPS AND QUERIES: 



Double and Single Tuberoses— Xanthoceras sorbi- 

 folia— Propagation of Evergreens by Soft Wood Cut- 

 tings-Plant in an Ant Hill 232-233 



Talierniemontanas 



A Water Barrow — Cranberries in Southern Utah 



The Pecan Nut— Sowing Walnuts and Hickories- 

 Growing the Eucalyptus in the North 



Damages for Delay— Amateur Marketing— Grapes 

 Under Glass 



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