The Gardener's Monthly 



AND HORTICULTURIST. 



EDITED BY THOMAS MEEHAN, 



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CONTENTS OF THE FEBRUARY NUMBER. 



SEASONABLE HINTS : 



Flower Garden and Pleasure Grounds. 



Greenhouse and House Gardening 



Fruit and Vegetable Gardening 



CORRESPONDENCE : 



How Bedding Plants may be arranged 



Alpine Plants 



Lawns 



The Dioscorea Batatas— or Chinese Potato. 



Cool House Orchideae 



Disease in Mafechal Niel Rose 



Sizes of English Flower Pots 



HotM'ater for mealy Bug 



The Mealy Bug ,.. ^ 



Alcohol for Mealy Bug 



Astrapsea Wallichii 



Grape Chat 



American Forestry 



Scarcity of Dogwood 



Abies or Picea ; which is it? 



The Ferns of North America 



Protection to Novelties 



Kansas State Horticultural Society 



EDITORIAL NOTES: 



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The Shade Trees of Washington— Roses on the 

 Manetti Stock— The English Primrose— American 



Tujj.eroses 



fid I Culture — Cultivating Old Plants — 

 It Culture in the West— Beautiful Australian 

 Plants— Double Chinese Primi-oses— Winter Decor- 

 ations 



Orchards in Grass- California Wine— Pride of the 

 Hudson Rasdperrj— The Fig in Ohio— Tea Plants 

 in California— The Beauty of the Philadelphia Pear 

 Tree— Phylloxera and Grape Rot— Best Apples for 

 Mississippi— Grape Disease and Phylloxera— Trop- 

 Scal Fruits- Testing Old Seeds 



Forest Commissioners to Europe — Cataipa Timber 

 — Natural Transplanting — Forestry of Ohio — Cam- 

 bridge (Ma8s.)Botanical Garden and Arboretum 



Cracking of the Pear _. 



European Notes by the Editor — No. 6. — A Bogus 

 Agent— Catalogues of Jas. Viotch and ifc Sons, Chel- 

 sea, London — Tree.s for Public Work — Sylviculture 

 — The Science Obsen-er- The American Naturalist 

 — The Game of Botany— Acknowledgements— The 

 Illustrated Annual of Rural Affairs— The .American 

 Bookseller— Vick's Illustrated Monthly Magazine — 

 H. E. Chitty— Dr. C. C. Parry— Col. M. P. Wilder- 

 Mr. Briggs, of Marysville— Thomas J. Mackenzie— 



Dr. J. P. Kirtland 



Address of M. P. Wilder (continued) 



NEW OR RARE PLANTS: 



Rheum nobile,. Hooker— Philodeudron amurcnse 

 — Hibicus (rosa sinensis albo variecata — H. (rosa 

 sinensis) carminata perfecta— H. (rosa Binensis) 



miniata semi-plena— New Escholtzias 



Dwarf Crested Papanese Cockscomb — President 

 Degraw Carnation — Coleus pictus— Nanz & Neu- 

 ner's New Double, White, Perpetual Blooming Car- 

 nation, "Peter Henderson" — Agave Shawii— Sum- 

 mit of Perfection Geranium 



Scribner Spitzenburg Apple— Rescue Pear— Bnraet 



Grape 



FORESTRY 



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NATURAL HISTORY AND SCIENCE 



LITERATURE. TRAVELS AND PERSONAL NOTES, 



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HORTICULTURAL SOCIETIES 



SCRAPS AND QUERIES: 



Scale on the Ivy— Trips on Azaleas— Archbishop 



Wood Geranium— Amaryllis and their Culture 



The Weather in New York 



Floral Decorations— Shittim Wood.. 



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