The Gardener's Monthly 



AND HOETICULTURIST, 



EDITED BY THOMAS MEEHAN, 



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CONTENTS OF THE OCTOBER NUMBER. 



.SEASONABLE HINTS: 



Flower Garden and Pleasure Ground 289-290 



Greenhouse and House Gardening 29o-296 



CORRESPONDENCE : 



Seeds and Seed Planting 290-291 



Ccanothus 291-292 



Hydrangeas 292 



Country Homes 292-29:) 



Orchid Culture in the United States 296-298 



Glass Panels ' 298-299 



Small Greenhouses 299-301 



Amaryllis and Orchids 301 



The Amaryllis .•>ul-302 



Alocasia Jenningsii 302 



Nertera Depressa 302 



Coleus Chameleon 302 



Stigmaphyllon Ciliatum :W2-303 



Fumigating Greenhouses 3)3 



Fruits in Iowa 30o 



The Dwarf June Berry 305-30G 



The Small Fruits 30fi 



The Sharpless Seedling : 30G 



The Dwarf June Berry 306-307 



Alexander, Amsden's June and Early Beatrice Peaches 307 



Cultivation of the Strawberry 307 



The Dyehouse Cherry 307 



Malicoton Peaches 308-309 



Time to Bud the Peach 309 



The Varieties of Catalpa 312-313 



A Murderous Plant — Darlingtonia Californica 314-315 



The "Curl" of the Peach Leaf, Ascomyces Defonnans 31.5-316 



Adventitious Buds in the Beech Tree 316 



Asclepias Cornuti 31G-317 



EDITORIAL NOTES: 



The Lemon Verbena— The Persian Lilac— The Pur- 

 ple Beech as a Hedge Plant — The Grey Pine — Can- 

 nas— Protecting Park Trees from Cattle— Asphalting 



Walks — Aponogeton distachyon not Necessarily an 



Aquatic— Astilbe Barbata— What Ails the Trees 293-29r> 



Belladonna Lily 303 



Late Strawberries — Cresent Seedling Strawberry — 

 Codling Moth Destroyers — Fruit in Europe — Curculio 

 in California — Peaches in England — Popular Penn- 

 sylvania Apples 309-310 



The Red Wood in H.ustralia — American Forestry — 



The Red Pine 313-314 



Horticulture in Maryland — Horticulture in Balti- 

 more — Ferns in their Homes and Ours — Clifton Park 

 Gardens, Baltimore— Dr. H. A. Swasey-John Nicholas 



Haage — Professor Asa Gray 317-319 



Massachusetts Horticultural Society — The New 

 Jersey State Horticultural Society 319-:i20 



NEW OR RARE PLANTS: 



A Blue Primrose — Campanula AUioni — The Rosy 



Snowflake 29.". 



Azalea, Duke of Edinburg — Asparagus plumosus — 



Acalypha maerophylla 303-304 



New Foreign Grape, "Welcome" — Sallic Worrell 

 Peach 310-311 



SCRAPS AND QUERIES: 



Beautiful Hydrangea,s — Deep Planting of Bulbs... 29.'> 

 Rondeletia Anoniale — Double Richardia — Fruiting 

 of Ficus Parcelli — Archbishop Wood and Gnillon 



Mivngclleon (ieraniums 304-305 



Clapp's Pears — Strawberry Leaf Insect — tirapes and 

 Graperies 311-:il2 



FLOWER GARDEN AND PLEASURE GROUND 289-29.1 



GREEN HOUSE AND HOUSE GARDENING •Z9r>-ii0r> 



FRUIT AND VEGETABLE GARDENING 305-312 



FORESTRY 312-«4 



NATURAL HISTORY AND SCIENCE 314-317 



LITERATURE, TRAVELS AND PERSONAL NOTES.... 317-319 

 HORTICULTURAL SOCIETIES :il9-:i20 



