The Gardener's Monthly 



AND HORTICULTURIST. 



EDITED BY THOMAS MEEHAN, 



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CONTENTS OF THE NOVEMBER NUMBER. 



SEASONABLE HINTS: 



Flower Garden and Pleasure Ground |?i"fon 



Greenhouse and House Gardening H, ,1"; 



Fruit and Vegetable Gardening dil-iis 



CORRESPONDENCE : 



Some July Flowering Shrubs 



Evening Primroses •••• 



Tuberous Rooted Begonias, Cyclamen Persicum,&c. 



Alocasia Lowii 



Bruginansia Suaveolens in the Flower Garden 



Double Geranium, " Bishop Wood" 



Whitewashed Pear Trees 



The Northern Range of Walnut Growing 



Apricots in California 



Grape Cultuie under Glass 



A Promising Orchard 



Growth of the Hickory 



A Large Horse Chestnut Tree 



Six Months in the Foot-Hills 



Protection to Plants 



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 338 

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 341 

 342 



EDITORIAL NOTE.S : 



Dracocephalum— The Carolina Poplar— Abies En- 



gelmanni — Crown Imperials 324 



Taste in Farm Houses— Preserving Flowers Fresh 

 The Richardia ^Eihiopica — Grafting Chrysanthe- 

 mums — Rose Blooms — Lord's Grennhouses 328-329 



Fruit-growing as a Business — The Phylloxera in 

 Europe- La Versailles Currant— Utah Hybrid Cher- 

 ry— Linseed Oil on Pear Trees— Profitable Cherries 

 —Locality for Orchards— The Dwarf Service Berry 

 —How Many Peach Buds a Day— Caroline and Belle 

 Strawberries — Grape Rot in Missouri — Bradt Seed- 

 ling Russet Apple— Indian Fruit and Nut Culture— 

 A Texan Peach Grower- Cravrford's Early Peach in 

 England— Increasing the Size of Mushrooms— Best 

 Maine Apples— Peaches in California— The Scupper- 

 nong Grape — Nectarines — Poisonous Mushrooms — 



Destruction of the Potato Beetle 333-33G 



Forestry or Unproductive Lands— Scarcity of Dog- 

 wood 339 



Quel CUB heterophylla — Helping Botanical Studies — 

 Restoring Dead Seeds— Mountain Ash Berries Poi- 

 sonous — The Poisonous Yew— A New Desiructive 

 Beetle— A Curious Fact for Darwin— The " Tumble 

 Weed "—The Andromeda arborea— The Flavor of 



American and English Peaches 339-341 



European Notes by the Editor— Gardening Around 



Nashville, Tenn.— "How Not to Do It"— The Gar- 

 dener's Monthly for 1878— The Lilies of Utah— Be- 

 quest for Tree Planting — The Hashish of the Egyp- 

 tians — Express Chargt^s — The Illinois Thistle Law — 

 Butt'alo Park Commission, Sixth Annual Report — 

 Drs. Hooker and Gray — B. M. Watson — Proceedings 

 of the Indiana Hort. Soc. for 1877— Transactions of 

 the Michigan State^ Pom. Soc— Tenth Annual Re- 

 port of the Ohio Hort. Soc. — Transactions of the Ne- 

 braska Mate Hort. Soc. for 1877 — The Microscopist's 

 Companion — Music — A Good Michigan Nursery — 

 Journal of Forestry— Pretty Feathers make Pretty 



Biids-L. B Case. Richmond, Ind 343-351 



The Nashville Meeting of the American Pom. Sue. 



in 1879— The Paris Exposition— Ciiy Plant (in.wing 352 



NEW OR RARE PLANTS: 



Clematis Davidiana — Clematis tubal, sa 324-325 



Pelargonium "New Life" — Tuberous Begonias 330 



NEW OR RARE FRUITS : 



Mr. Rickett's Grapes— The Lady Waahington Grape 

 — Marshall Ptar — Early Dawn Grape — Brighton 

 Grape— Freeman's Late Peach — Forrest Ros btraw- 

 berry 336-337 



FORESTRY... 338-339 



NATURAL HISTORY AND SCIENCE.., 



339-341 



LITERATURE, TRAVELS & PERSONAL NOTF.S 341-362 



HORTICULTURAL SOCIETIES 



352 



SCRAPS AND QUERIES: 



Gas-killed Trees— Night Bloominu Cereus— Irish Ju- 

 nipers, &c —Preserving Roses in Winter — Standing 



Cypress — Cat-leaved Grape ._ 325-326 



Disease on the Marecbal Neil Rose — Antipodal Hy- 

 acinths—Heating a Small Greenhouse 329 



The Early Peaches in California— A Good Early 

 Pear— Improved Siberian Crab — Kinney's Cider 

 Crab Apple— Care in Varieties— Hoosac Thoinless 

 Blackberry— Lime on Clover Sod— Bassett's Ameri- 

 can Plum— Fine Late Peaches— Fruit from the 



Grand Traverse Region, Mich.„ 337-338 



Fruiting of Akebia quinata— A Twin Apple— Twin 

 Peach— The Kentucky Cotfeeas a Fly Poison— Fer- 

 tile Hydrangea— Beggar Ticks vs. Beggar Lice 351-358 



