The Gardener's Monthly 



AND HORTICULTURIST. 



EDITED BY THOMAS MEEHAN, 



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CONTENTS OF THE SEPTEMBER NUMBER. 



SEASONABLE HINTS: 



Flower Garden and Pleasure Ground 257-264 



Greenhouse and House Gardening 265-269 



Fruit and Vegetable Gardening 269-277 



CORRESPONDENCE : 



Diplacus Glutinosus 



Lilium Huraboltii 



The Weeping Cherry 



The Norway Spruce 



An Evergreen Plantation 



Tabemsemontana Coronaria Flore pleno. 



A New Use for the Lady Bug 



Wintering Eucalyptus Globulus 



Remedy for Slugs 



Note on the Night-Blooming Cereus 



Reinwardtia Trigyna 



Which is the Best Raspberry 7 



Fructification of the Fig 



Gas Lime 



Oil for Fruit Trees 



Yellow Pine 



Prairie Flowers 



Abies Englemanni and A. Menziesii 



Protection for New Varieties 



Kansas State Horticultural Society.- 



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EDITORIAL NOTES : 



Omphalodes verna— The Polyanthus— Acalypha tri- 

 color in the Flower Garden— Azalea calendulacea... 262 

 Plumbago Larpentie— Fuchsia procumbens— Tropi- 

 cal Pitcher Plants— Forcing the Lily of the Valley.. 267-268 

 A Grapery and Sanatorium— Grape Culture under 



Glass 



Growth of Oak— Forests of Europe— Rapid Growth 



of Hickory 



European Notes by the Editor— Fairmount Park, 

 Philadelphia— The Nursery Business— Floral Dec- 

 orations at Parties in France — Swindles in Horti- 



271-273 



277 



culture — jEscuIus Californica — The Horse Chestnut 

 for Rheumatism— Marengo (Ills.) Nurseryman — 

 R. R. Scott— Death of T. T. Mather— Music— Mr. 

 Roderick Campbell — Mr. A. M. Engle on Early 



Peaches 281-287 



The -Nurseryman's Protective Association — The 

 American Association of Nurserymen— The Work 

 of Group xxxvi. of the Centennial Jury 288 



NEW OR RARE PLANTS : 



Ipomoea leptophylla — Solanum Torreyi 263 



NEW OR RARE FRUITS : 



Hames' Seedling Apple— The Musser Peach — Bow- 

 ers' Early Peach— The Forest Rose— Late Cone 

 Strawberries — Roe's SeedlingGooseberry — Late Em- 

 erald Gooseberry 273-276 



FORESTRY 277 



NATURAL HISTORY AND SCIENCE _ 278-280 



LITERATURE, TRAVELS* PERSONAL NOTES 280-287 



HORTICULTURAL SOCIETIES 287-288 



SCRAPS AND QUERIES : 



Variations in Junipers — Dahlias in California — Dam- 

 age by a Beetle — Our Contributors— Garden Flowers 

 in California — Asplenium Trichomanes — Chrysan- 

 themum fteniculatum — Convolvulus arvensis — 



Pruning Evergreens 268-264 



Double White Oleander— Calla .lEthiopica— Purple- 

 leaved Ivy— Culture of HedychiumGardnerianum — 



Culture of Cactus 268-269 



Oil on Peach Trees— The best Early Peaches— Early 

 Peaches— Early Peaches — Early Peaches in Georgia 



—Seedling Peach— Fruit of Passiflora edulis 275-277 



Triteleia uniflora— Seeds of the Persian Lilac— 

 EchinocactusSimpsoni- Ailanthut— Bees and Clover 279-280 

 "60" Sizea Pots— Mr. Darwin's Family— Prices of 



Nursery Plants and Flowers 287 



Music at Horticultural Exhibitions 288 



