The Gardener's Monthly 



AND HORTICULTURIST. 



EDITED BY THOMAS MEEHAN, 



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CONTENTS OF THE AUGUST NUMBER. 



SEASONABLE HINTS : 



Flower Garden and Pleasure Ground. 



225-226 



CORRESPONDENCE : 



Blunders and Mulching 226-22T 



Rhododendron Occidentale 227 



Picturesque Lawns 22T-229 



Cool House Orchid.s— Lwlias 230-2:5'2 



Additional Notes on the Mealy Bug 2.32 



Dendrobium Nobile, versus Novelties 232-238 



Variegated Cobcea Scandens 233 



New Early Peaches 236-23T 



Dwarf June Berry 237 



The Dwarf June Berry 237-23S 



Yellow Cottonwood 241-242 



A Large White Oak 242 



A Murderous Plant— Darlingtonia Californica 245-24.') 



Pansy Portraiture, or Heartsease Pictures 247-249 



EDITORIAL NOTES : 



The Pines of Japan — Propagation by Layers— Hous- 



tonia ccerula — Neirembergia rivularls 229 



Wallflowers— The Double Amarj'llis- Chameleon 



Wallflowers— A Cure for Thrips— Orchids 233-234 



Early Peaches— Leaf Blight in the Pear- Fleitas 

 St. John, or Yellow St. John— The Filmore Straw- 

 berry — Peach Growing South — Cherry Culture in ; 

 Georgia — Good Fruit Dryers — Asparagus in Eng- 

 land-Early Cherries in Georgia— Longworth Pro- 

 lific Prolific Strawberry— Insect Traps — Blanching 



Celery 238-239 



Hardy Catalpa Trees— The Hardy Colorado Firs 



and Spruces- Forestry in Portugal 342-243 



Lightning-proof Beech Trees — Pinus ponderosa — 

 Lightning-rods— Yucca baccata— Vitality of Seeds 245-246 

 Traveling Notes, by the Editor— Virginian Jasmine 

 — American and Hardy Ferns — Ferns of Kentucky 

 —Moore's Rural Life— Death of James Fleming — 

 Prof essor Asa Gray /. 249-258 



Centennial Exhibition of 1S76— The Montgomery 

 (Ohio), Horticultural Society— Kentucky Horticul- 

 tural Society- The District of Columbia Horticul- 

 tural Society— Maes. Agricultural Club — Texas 

 Horticultural and Pomological Association _. 258-256 



SCRAPS AND QUERIES: 



Name of Plant— .Amaryallis Longifolia— Dark- 

 leaved Norway Maple— A Hardy Gladiolus — Varia- 

 tion in the Cut-leaved Birch— Andromeda speciosa 230 



Calceolarias — Amaryllis ~ 236 



Bower's Early Peach— Watering Strawberries— 

 C^uince Disease — The Peach Crop of Milton, 

 Kentucky — Labor and Wages ip Kentucky — Kinna- 

 man's Seedling Peach— Band for Codling Worms— 



Dyehousc Cherry 240-241 



Curious CaDbage Leaf— Double leaf in a Begonia 24« 

 Fuchsia- Geranium and Pelargonium— European 

 Sketches— Preserving Flowers of the Night- 

 blooming Cereu? - 252-253 



NEW OR RARE PLANTS : 



Double-flowered Eschscholtzia- Blood-leaved Nor- 

 way Maple— Tovaria Oleracea 229-230 



Lucnlia gratisgima — Lnculia Pinciana— New Zonal 

 Pelargonium, Dr. Denny — Adiantum princeps — 

 Double-flowered Cinerarias 234-236 



NEW OR RARE FRUITS AND VEGETABLES. 



The Sharpless Strawberry 239 



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 FLOWER GARDEN AND PLEASURE GROUND 225-230 



GREEN HOUSE AND GARDENING - 230-236 



FRUIT AND VEGETABLE GARDENING „ 236-241 



FORESTRY 241-243 



NATURAL HISTORY AND SCIENCE 243-246 



LITERATURE. TRAVELS AND PERSONAL NOTES, 247-253 



HORTICULTURAL gOCIBTIES 263-25ft 



