The Gardener's Monthly 



AND HORTICULTURIST. 



EDITED BY THOMAS MEEHAN, 



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CONTENTS ©F THE MAY NUMBER. 



CORRESPONDENCE : 



Dutch Bulbs in the South ../ 129 ■ 



The Slippery Elm 129 



Comparative Rose List, .T 130 \ 



Pinus Glabra ':f 130 



Carpet Bedding 130-131 j 



Vines 131-132 



The Amaryllis 132-133 



Among the Orchids 134-135 



Ralph and Fanny Geraniums 135-136 



Killing Mealy Bug 136 



Brassia, Miltonia and Odontoglossum 136 139 



Geranium "New Life" ,. ... 139 



Pears in Grass 140-141 



Dwarf Juneberry 141 



Blight in the Pear Tree 141-142 



Outside Grape Border 142-14-3 



Quality and Culture of Pears 143-144 



Notes on New Fruits 144 



On the use of Sulphur ^144-145 



Catalpa Wood 146-147 



Relation of Soil-Texture to Timber Growth 14T 



The Eucalyptus in Virginia 147-148 



Northern Range of the Willow Oak 148 



The English Ivy— Wild 150 



Concerning two Species of Apple 150-152 



Post Office Laws I.M 



The Weeping Willow in New England 154-156 



EDITORIAL NOTES : 



Horticnltnre in Japan — Laminm Purpureum — 

 Lilium Krameri — Forest Grove Cemetery — The 



English Daisy 133-1.34 



Luculia Gratissima— Oakland Cemetery 139 



Mahaleb Stocks — Crescent Seedling Strawberry— 

 The Phylloxera— The Champagne Apple— Neglected 



Orchards— Drying Fruits and Vegetables 145-146 



Value of Fast Growing Timber— The Massachusetts 



Premiums for Tree Planting — Tea Culture in the 

 South— The Catalpa Tree— Dogwood Timber- 

 Sycamore Timber— Big Trees in Australia— Notes 

 on Tree Planting— Bi mam Woods— Oak Staves — 

 Coffee in California— Trees in North Carolina— The 



Mammoth Trees of California 146-149 



An Aboretum a*^ Nashville — The Vegetative and Re- 

 productive Forces — Hills of Pennsylvania— March 



Weather at Sarah)ga 152 



European Notes, by the Editor (No. 9)— I hat Fraud- 

 ulent Agent— Baltimore Park Commission— Horti- 

 culture at the Paris Exposition — Massachusetts 

 Horticultural Society— Double Amaryllis— North 

 American Botany— Canadian Horticulturist — Cul- 

 tural Catalogue of the Grcenbrook and Paterson 

 Nurseries— Williard Cutting Flagg— Science in the 

 Department of Agriculture — American Pomological 

 Society 156-160 



NEW OR RARE PLANTS: 



a he Thick Leaved Elm 134 



FORESTRY 146-148 



NATURAL HISTORY AND SCIENCE 150-1.52 



LITERATURE, TRAVELS AND PERSONAL NOTES. 154-1.56 

 SCRAPS AND QUERIES: 



The Bartram Oak 134 



Watering Small Plants— Culture of Medinella Mag- 

 niflca— Beautiful Cyclamens— Seedling Verbenas — 



Variegated Coboea Scandeus 189-140 



, Japan Persimmons 146 



Value of Cherry Timber— Black or Yellow Locust.. 149 



The English Sparrow — A Christmas Flower — Botan- 

 ic.".! Names of the Sweet Potato — Imatopbyllum — 

 Insectivorous Plants 152-154 



