The Gardener's Monthly 



AND HORTICULTURIST. 



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;ONTENTS OF THE SEPTEMBER NUMBER. 



SEASONABLE HINTS : 



Flower Garden and Pleasure GioiukI 257 



Fruit and Vegetable Garden 269-27tl 



CORRESPONDENCE : 



Picturesque Lawns 2.^7-259 



Watering of Flower Beds 2.^9-260 



Seeds and Seed Planting 260-201 



Epidendrum 263-265 



Alocasia Jenuingsii 26.') 



Window Boxes and Jardinieres 265-20r) 



Flowering of the Raphis Flabelliforniis 266-207 



The Crescent Seedling Strawberry 27(» 



A New Cherry 270-271 



Grape Culture in Texas 271 



Fruit t;nlture in Kansas 271-272 



The Early Peaches in Kansas this Year 272 



Felling Trees 2T4-27S 



The Byfield Elm 2Tr) 



A Murderous Plant— Darlingtonia Californica 2T7-278 



Cross Fertilization in Sahhatia Angularis 278 



Crossing and Hybridizing 27!» 



EDITORIAL NOTES : 



Stuartia Virginia— Trees In Large Cities— Primula 



Japonica — Hypericum prunidatum 261-202 



Mixing Oil ana Water— How to Ma)<e Skeleton 



Leaves— Growth of a Marechal Niel Rose 267 



English Importation of Fruit— Coal Tar on Fruit 



Trees— Culture of Orchard Trees 272-273 



Tree Planting in Switzerland — The Eucalyptus in 



Memphis 275 



Fungus Spawn 279-2S0 



Annual Report of Fairmouut Park, Philadelphia- 



Typographical Errors— Large Asparagus— A "Day" 

 in California— For Farmers- Prof. C. V. Riley— T. 

 B. Miner— Bible Plants, their History— Vegetation 

 Around Coiistantiijople— Horticulture in Maryland 290-2S5 

 Centennial Exhibition of 1876 — Transactions of 

 the Mass. Horticultural Society— Mass. Horticultu- 

 ral Society— The marketing of Pears, etc 286-2S8 



NEW OR RARE PLANTS : 



Selaginella Japonica — White Lilinm aarattim — 



White Wistarias 262-20? 



Anthurinm ornatnm 2i>7-269 



SCRAPS AND QUERIES: 



Names of Plants— Belgian Honeysuckle — Lawn 



Grass 263 



Robert's Portabl« Terra Cotta Dry Stove— Oiled 



Sheeting 26!» 



The Burn's Peach— Hornet Raspberry— Thomson's 

 Orange Peach — Gumbo— Mowing the Leaves of 

 Strawberries— Insects on the Grai)e Vine— Seed- 

 ling Gooseberry 273-274 



Forest Corporations 275-277 



Ants on Geranium Roots — Double Lilium Can- 

 didum 260 



FLOWER GARDEN AND PLEASURE GROUND... 267-263 



GREEN HOUSE AND HOUSE GARDENING 263-26<» 



FRUIT AND VEGETABLE GARDENING 269-274 



FORESTRY 274-277 



NATUR A L HISTORY AND SCIENC E 277-280 



LITERATURE, TRAVELS AND PERSONAL NOTES, 280-285 

 HORTICULTURAL SOCIETIES 2S5-2SS 



