The Gardener's Monthly 



AND HORTICULTURIST. 



EDITED BY THOMAS MEEHAN, 



Assietcd by an Hblo Corps ot AMKHICAN uiid KOUEIQN ("OURKSPONDENTS. 



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CONTENTS OF 

 SEASONABLE HINTS: 



Flower Garden and Pleasure Ground 



Greenhouse and House-Gardening 



Fruit and Vegetable Gardening 



CORRESP( )NDENCE : 



RibnonBeds 



The Ivy in New England 



The German and the American Globe Arbor Vitses.. 



The Rapid Progress of our Horticulture r.. 



Rhododendron Occidentalis and Pickeringia Mon- 

 tana 



Additional Notes on the Ailanthus 



Browallia Roezli 



Orchids with other Plants 



Disease of the Marechal Niel 



Antipodal Hyacinths 



Tuberous-Rooted Begonias Again 



Anthurium Schertzerianum 



Fruit Notes from California 



The Diospyros Kakl or Japanese Persimmon ~'. 



Lime for Apple Orchards ,. 



Quercus Phellos and Q. Falcata 



The Eucalyptus 



Barrenness in the Fig Tree 



Notes from Oregon 



The Eucalyptus and Therapeutics 



Plant Protection 



Southeastern Kansas Horticultural Society 



EDITORIAL NOTES : 



The Oriental Spruce— The Trees of Washington- 

 Oak Hill Cemetery, Upper Sandusky. Ohio— Public 



Parks in England— Standard Ennonymus 



Stephanotis Floribnnda — Winter Decorative Plants 



—A New Fashion in Cut Flowers 



New English Gooseberries— Grafting Reoted Fyes 

 —Carter's Blue Apple— Apples for Missouri— East 

 India Millet— The Northern Spy Apple— Blight- 

 Proof Stocks — Neglecting Orchard Trees 



Yellow Pine- The Spanish Chestnut— Willow Bark 

 The Cinchona in .Jamaica— Rapidity of Timbf.T 

 Growth— Eucalyptus Fire Wood —Willows for Rail- 

 road Ties 



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Carnivorous Plants — Fungi and Disease — Liberian 

 Coffee— Dwarf .June Berry- Submerged Roots in 

 Winter— What is a fruit— Malformed Apple Blos- 

 BomB— Jumping Beans of Mexico— Light for Tropi- 

 cal Plants — The Potato Beetle in Europe 



European Notes, by the Editor— The Gardener's 

 Monthly and no Garden — Melbourne Botanic Gar- 

 den — Andrew Murray — Transactions of the Ne- 

 braska State Horticultural Society — Proceedings of 

 the Worcester County Horticultural Society, Mass., 

 for 1878 — The London Florist and Pomologist- 

 Vick's Illustrated Catalogue- Vegetable Plants — 

 Correspondence Botanique — Mound Making Ants of 



the AUeghanies 



Col. M P. Wilder— Ohio Horticnltnral Society- 

 Montgomery (Ohio) Horticultural Society 



NEW OR RARE PLANTS: 



Pentstemon Cobcea — Erynginm Leavenworthii — 



Spira;a Palmata Elegans— Daphne Fortunei 



Semi-double Gloxinios — Centaurea Oloinonfii — 

 Cuphea Roezli — New Gerarjiums 



NEW OR RARE FRUITS, VEGETABES, *c-. 



Teosinte Reaua Luxurians 



FORESTRY 



NATURAL HISTORY AND SCIENCE 



LITE R ATURE, TRAVELS AND PERSONA L NOTES, 



HORTICULTURAL SOCIETIES 



SCRAPS AND QUERIES: 



Stocks for Grafting — Worm on the Juniper- Is 



Aspidistra Lnreda Hardy 



Hyacinth Bloominjr— Butterfly Flowfers- Flowers 

 in Milwaukee — Double White Oleander— Aspect of 



a Greenhouse 



Cuttings in Arkansas — Fall Blooming of Apple 

 Trnes- Scribner Spitzenbutg Apples — Fruit-Cul- 

 ture for Market— Pruning the Old Canes of Rasp- 

 berries—Outside Grape Borders— Linseed Oil for 



Pear Trees 



The Construction of a Tree— The Ironwood— The 

 Cinnamon Vine — 



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