The Gardener's Monthly 



AND HORTICULTURIST. 



EDITED BY THOMAS MEEHAN, 



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CONTENTS OF THE 



SEASONABLE HINTS: ^ , „co or.. I 



Flower Garden and Pleasure Ground 289-29t I 



Greenhouse and House Gardening 291-2U8 | 



Fruit and Vegetable Gardening 299-305 | 



CORRESPONDENCE: ■ 



New Tuberous Begonias 290 | 



A New Late Flowering Magnolia 290 | 



Paeonia Browuii 291 



Gymnostacbyum Verschaflfeltl 295 



Medinilla Magnifica 295 



Maiden Hair Fern for Bouquets 296 



A Summer Garden Bouquet 296 



The New Early Peaches 300 



Notes on Early and Other Fruits 301 



Peen-to, or Flat Peach of China 301 



Tumble Weed 305 



An April Day in the Foot-Hills of California 309 



Notes from Dallas, Texas 309 



Rhymes and Recollections of a Cactus Man (concl'd) 310 



Nursery Credits 312 



A Kansas Letter 312 



EDITORIAL NOTES: 



New Cemetery at Toledo, 0.— Roses in Winter— The 

 Mocassin Flower — Mademoiselle Marie Finger Rose 

 —Hardy Bulbs— Distinct Phloxes— The Colorado 



Menzies Spruce 291-292 



Roof Gardening in Chicago— The Old Double Chinese 

 Primrose— The Papyrus as a Garden Plant — Artifi- 

 cial Colored Flowers— Preserve Old Geraniums— 



The I.tora— Curious Effects of Grafting Colcuses 296-298 



The Best Apple in the Worlf". — The Reliance Rasp- 

 berry—Tea In California— Smith's Improved Goose- 

 berry — The Liberian Coffee — Killing Grasshoppers — 

 Alexander, Honeywell and Amsden Peaches — The 

 Concord Grape — Thwack and Turner Raspberries — 

 A Worm in a Cucumber — The Montmorenci Cherry 

 — A Kansas Vineyard — The Shropshire Damson 

 Plum — Salad for Early Spring — Mushroom Growing 

 —Whole or Cut Sets in Potato Planting — Steeping 

 Seeds in Chlorine and Camphorated Water 301-304 



OCTOBER NUMBER. 



Geography of the Colorado Potato Beetle— Euonymus 

 radicans— Wearing out of Varieties- Spontaneous 

 Generation — Reproduction in Plants — Trees will not 

 last Forever— Heating Cities by Steam — Preparing 

 Vegetable Tissue — Growth of a Bamboo — Danger of 

 Fire from Stpam-Heating — Abies Fraseri— Insects 



and Fertilization...*. .306-309 



European Notes by ihe IDditor — The Garden of Am- 

 erica — Hoiticulture in Kentucky and Tennessee — 

 The Christ's Thorn—An Enemy of the Potato Bee- 

 tle — Transactions of the Wisconsin' State Hort. fioc. 

 — Tenth Annual Report of the Secretary of the Con- 

 necticut Board of Agriculture — Transaction.s of the 

 Massachusetts Hort. Soc— Orchid Grower's Manual 

 — The Cabbage Family— The Locust Plague— Fruit 

 and Bread— Swine Husbandry— The Floral Gazette 



—The Florist and Pomologist 313-317 



Display of Cut Flowers at the Permanent Interna- 

 tional Exhibition— New York Hort. Soc —Georgia 

 State Hoi t. Soc— Pen n'a Hort. .Soc. — Maryland Hort. 



Soc— The American Pomological Soc 317-320 



NEW OR RARE PLANTS: 



Improved Fox Glove— Callirrhoe Macrorrhize — Hy- 

 brid Aquilegia Chrysantha — Idesia polycarpa— Pi- 

 nus Omorika — Ceanothus integerrimus — Lilium 



Thunbergianum van Houttei 292-294 



Double Flowered Cinerarias— New Violet — ^Torenia 



Fvurneri 298 



NEW OR RARE FRUITS: 



Captain Jack fc'trawberry 304 



NATURAL HISTORY AND SCIENCE „ 305-309 



LITERATURE, TRAVELS & PERSONAL NOTES 309-317 



HORTICULTURAL SOCIETIES 317-320 



SCRAPS AND QUERIES: 



Hardy Yellow Rose — Propagating Tree Pseonys — 



Silver Thorn 294 



Propagating the Calla Lily — Convulvulus Mauritan- 



icus — Taberniemontana 298 



A Good Early Pear— Early Peaches in Texas— What 



is a Fruit? 305 



