The Gardener's Monthly 



AND^HOETICULTURIST, 



EDITED BY THOMAS MEEHAN, 



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CONTENTS OF THE FEBRUARY NUMBER. 



SEASOKABLE HINTS: 



Flower Garden and Pleasure Ground 33-35 



Greenhouse and House Gardening 41 



Fruit and Vegetable Gardening 45-47 



CORRESPONDENCE: 



Two well Kept Places 35 



Pressing Earth Firm 35-36 



Wodenethe. 36-37 | 



Datura Arborea 41-42 



Heating Hothouses 42 : 



Euphorbia 42 



Salvia Splendens Ccerulea (?) 42-43 



Japan Persimmons 47 



Pine Tree Insects 51-52 



Notes and Queries No. 9 55-57 



EDITORIAL NOTES: 



Desmodium Penduliflorum— Memorial Trees — Barbed 

 Wire Fences — The Destruction of the Laurel Hill Ce- 

 dar of Lebanon— A Hybrid Fir— The A'iue Garden — 

 Grafted Coniferse— The Queen Gives a Park — The 



Grounds of Major Freas 38-40 



The Wall-flower— Rose Laurel — Tradescantia multi- 

 color — Tornelia fragrans — Designs of Cut Flowers — 

 Fires in Greenhouses — Ornamental Grasses — Floral 

 Horse-shoes— Everlasting Flowers— Alyssum as a Bas- 

 ket Plant— Chrysanthemums 43-44 



Various Gardens — Scraping the Bark of Trees — Patent 

 Fruits — Fruits in Pots — Root Pruning — The Peanut 

 — Tomatoes in England — Dr. Wy lie's Grapes — The 

 Best English Strawberries — Almond Culture — The 

 Prentiss Grape — Apple for South of Baltimore — Phyl- 

 loxera in California — (drafting the Grape— Tlie Foster 

 Peach— A Large Cucumber — Winter Tomatoes — The 



Keifl'er Pear 47-49 



Durability of Timber — Durability of Wood — Measur- 

 ing the Height of Trees — Rapid Growth of the Osage 

 Orange — Ericine— The Difference in the Catalpas — 

 Tree Planting in Nebraska 52-53 



Botany of California — Wearing out of Varieties — Sci- 

 ence by the Rev. Joseph Cook— Botanic Gardens — 

 Frefezing of the Sap of Plants — Deciduous Trees in 

 California^Batchelor's Buttons — The Ataniasco Lily 54-55 

 Editorial Letter — Our Twenty-second Year — Thanks 

 to our Contributors— Typographical and Grammati- 

 cal Slips— Illustrated Catalogues — Boyle's Nurseries, 

 Philadelphia — Healtli of Colonel Wilder — Mr. Peter 

 B. Mead— Charles Downing— Col. M. P. Wilder— The 

 American Entomologist — Eucalyptographia — Tea Cul- 

 ture — Correspondence Botanique — Brookes' Texas Al- 

 manac — Dairy Farming — Illustrated Annual of Phre- 

 nology — Death of the Founder of the Gardener's 

 Monthly, Daniel Rodney King — Amnion Burr — Mr. 



George Gordon — Those Plant Patents 57-63 



Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia — Wor- 

 cester County (Mass.) Horticultural Society — Mas- 

 sachusetts Horticultural Society 64 



NEW OR RARE PLANTS. 



Spiraea Aruncus — Dwarf Dahlias 40 



SCRAPS AND QUERIES: 



Eupatoriums — Red Cedar — ^Hanliness of Ligustrum 



japonicum 40-41 



Origin of Fuchsia Earl of Beaconsfleld— Flowering 

 of the Catalonian Jasmine — Achyranthus Emersonii 



— Names of Plants — Diseased Cyclamens 44-45 



Yellows in the Peacli — Apples and Pears in Eden — 

 Improved Lemons — Selecting Grafts of Fruit Trees.... 49-50 

 Editorial Courtesy — Advertisers and Readers^How 

 to get Good Men into Public Parks and Gardens — 



Going Round the World 63-64 



FLOWER GARDEN AND PLEASURE GROUND 33-41 



GREENHOUSE AND HOUSE GARDENING 41-45 



FRUIT AND VEGETABLE GARDENING 45-50 



FORESTRY 51-53 



NATURAL HISTORY AND SCIENCE 54-55 



LITERATURE, TRAVELS AND PERSONAL NOTES 55-64 



HORTICULTURAL SOCIETIES 64 



