The Gardeners Monthly 



AND HORTICULTURIST, 



EDITED BY THOMAS MEEHAN. 



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CONTENTS OF THE 



SEASONABLE HINTS: 



Flower Garden and Pleasure Ground. 

 Green House and Hou^e Gardening. . 

 Fruit and Vegetable Gardening 



237 



COMMUNICATIONS : 



Notes of Fuchsia Serratiiolia 330 



New Life Geranium 230-23 1 



Culture of Pimelia Henderson! and other Plants 331 



Cut Flower Trade 331-232 



Carnations '32 



Earthen Flower Pots »3»-333 



Steam Heating of Greenhouses 333-335 



Good Greenhouse Plants 33s 



New Double Var. Sweet Alyssum 236 



Floral Gossip 336 



Marketable Pear Tiees 238-239 



Japan Persimmons in the Orchard House 339-240 



The Confused Catalpas 343-^44 



Thrte Varieties of Asclepias 245 



The Resurrection Plant 245-246 



Growth of Trees in Frozen Soil 346 



Notes and Queries, No 15 249-250 



Kansas State Horticultural Society 354-^55 



EDITORIAL NOTES : 



The Public Squares of Philadelphia — Roses in Europe 

 — Pruning of Osage Hedges — Hardy Ever-blooming 

 Roses — Improved Hepaticas — The Irish Yew — 

 Hydrangea paniculata — Roads and Paths — Eu- 

 onymus radicans — Popular Roses — Tree or Stand- 

 ard Wistaiias — The Cedar of Lebanon— Rose La 

 Frarce — The Globose- seeded Phxnosperma (P. glo- 



bosa 226—229 



Large Marechal Neil Rose. — Improvements in Propa- 



gatirg 336-237 



Making Things Pay — Fruit Culture in England — The 

 Steel Blue Grape Beetle— Apple Trade— Artificial Wa- 

 ter in Gardens. — Standard Gooseberries — Cracked 



AUGUST NUMBER. 



Pears — Paper from Grass — Edible Earth — Pear Crmte 

 de Lamay — A Lover of Pears — Josephine de Malines 

 Pear — Scale on Orchard Trees — Apples for the South. . 24e-243 



Forest Fires 244 



Water on Rocks— Pcisoning by Stramonium — The 

 Origin of Life — The Movements of Plants — Diouth in 

 Kansas — Freezing of the Sap in Plants — Wilson, the 



Ornithologist — Yucca Moths 246-249 



Trees of Fairmount Park — Phylloxera in Europe — 

 Prof. Cope and the Academy of Natural Sciences — Dust 

 in Fishy Waters— The Fiftieth Year of an Editor— Cor- 

 respondence— The Oleander — Introduction of the Mess 

 Rose — The Horticultural Authority — The Langdon 

 Nurseries — Jean Nuytens Verschaffelt — Dr. J. T. 

 Rothrock— Death of Robert Buist, Sr. — The Coming 



of Christ 250-250 



The Nurserymen's Association — Camden Microscopi- 

 cal Society 255-260 



SCRAPS AND QUERIES : 



Ants 229 



Orchid Culture 237 



Yellows in the Peach — F) uit Culture in North Caroli- 

 na — The Orange Gooseberry 243 



Gardening and Gardeners— Notes and Queries 253-254 



FLOWER GARDEN AND PLEASURE GROUND.. 226-229 



GREENHOUSE AND HOUSE GARDENING 230-237 



FRUIT AND VEGETABLE GARDENING 237-243 



FORESTRY 243-244 



NATURAL HISTORY AND SCIENCE 245-349 



LITERATURE.TRAVELS AND PERSONALNOTES 349-254 

 HORTICULTURAL SOCIETIES 354-256 



