The Gardener's Monthly 



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CONTENTS OF THE NOVEMBER NUMBER. 



SEASON^VBLE HINTS: 



Flower (iarden and Pleasure Ground 321-322 



Greenhouse and House Gardening 828-32!) 



Fruit and Vegetable G;u-dening 334-330 



CORRESPON DENCE : 



" Ilolywood " at Long Branch, N. J 322-323 



Lilium auratum 323-324 



New Dahlias 324-325 



A Window Hood for Ornamental Vines 32") 



Orchid Culture 329-330 



Artificial Wood Tiles 330-331 



Hyacinth Culture 331 



Rummer Shade for Apple Trees 330 



The True Gumbo 336 



Fa.st Budding 330 



Asparagus Culture in England .*• 330 



Grape Culture in Texas 337 



Hoosae Thornle.ss Blackberry 337 



A Go(k1 way to work over Large Fruit Trees 337 



Vagaries of the Peach 337-33K 



Felling Trees .341-342 



That Weather-sfield Elm 342 



The Locust Tree ; 342-343 | 



Lightning and Beech Trees :}43-344 



Abstract of Paper "On Hybrids in Nature" 344 



EDITORIAL NOTES: 



The Kentucky Coffee Tree— A Pretty City Garden- 

 Fruiting of the Akebia — Ro.ses in Round Baskets — 

 How to Propagate Mistletoe — W'hite Lobelias— Daf- 

 fodils— The Day Lily, (Hemerocallis)— A Sense of 



Propriety 32-3-328 



The Victoria Lily — Hellebore Powder — How to make 

 Moss Baskets — Venus' Fly Trap — Agapanthus um- 



bellatus— Specimen Phloxes 331-3.33 



Influence of the Summer on Hardiness in Winter — 

 About Moles — Green Manure — Georgia Pears — Late 

 Peaches — October Peaches — A New Source of Profit 

 — Olive Oil — California Raisins— Texan Early Peaches 

 — AVilder Peach — Japanese Mushrooms 338-340 



Native Place of the Mign<«nette — Wheat and Chess 

 again — The English Si)arrows, and Seeds and Fruits 

 — What is a Weed — Clematis — Andromedia arborea — 

 Snow Plant of California — Sulphur and Y'ellow Fever 

 (Jerms — Fruiting of the Stapelia — Experiments in 

 Testing Seeds — Eradicating rare Plants — How the 



Roots Grow—Pasteur's Theory of Fermentation 344-346 



"OurChromo" — Th^ Postal Laws— Royal Love for 

 Wild Flowers — Winter Greeneries at Home — The 

 Hog; the Varieti&s to Raise, General Management 

 and Diseases — Preliminary Studies on the North 

 American PhyralidiC — The .Journal of Fore.stry — Dr. 

 H. A. Swasey — Col. Daniel Dennett — Insect Powder 

 — Bahama Fruits — Cataljia Bignoides, variety Spe- 

 ccDsa — Trade in Flowers at Paris — Thanks — Nursery 

 Visit.s — Benjamin (i. Smith — The Place for the Sun 



'Dial— Australian International Exhibition 347-350 



Pennsylvania Horticultural Society — Michigan State 

 Pomological Society — The Maryland Horticultural 

 Society — Nurserymen and Horticultural Exhibitions 

 ^—Horticultural Exhibiti(min England 3.il-3i52 



NEW OE RARE PLANTS: 



Enlal^v Jai)onica zebrina — Double Scarlet Geum — 



Abies Harryana _ 328 



A Double Mexican Lily — Improved Abutilons 333-334 



Sharpless Seedling Strawberry — ^The Prentiss Graj)e 

 — Bonne du Puits Ansults Pear — New Late Peaches 340-341 

 SCRAPS AND QUERIES: 



Austrian and Scotch Pines — Dahlias 328 



Pears in the West — Grape Borders 341 



Catalpa Coffins — Alnus Oregonia and Acer macro- 



phyllum 343 



FLOWER GARDEN AND PLEASURE GROUND 321-328 



GREEN HOUSE AND HOUSE GARDENING 328-334 



FRUIT AND VEGETABLE GARDENINGi .334-341 



FORESTRY' 341-343 



NATURAL HISTORY AND SCIENCE 343-346 



LITERATURE, TRAVELS AND PERSONAL NOTES.... 347-350 

 HORTICULTURAL SOCIETIES 3.51-352 



