The GARDENER'S Monthly 



AND HORTICULTURIST, 



EDITED BY.THOMAS MEEHAN, 



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CONTENTS OF THE APRIL NUMBER. 



SEASOKABLE HINTS: 



Flower Garden and Pleasure Ground 



< Greenhouse and House Gardening 



Fruit and Vegetable Gardening 



COMMrNICATIONS: 



A New Border Plant 



I>ucks as Insect Destroyers 



Notes from England on Primulas, etc 



Making Lawns 



Portlandia Grandiflora 



Ferny Facts and Fancies 



Non-Production of FruitTrees. What are theCauses? 



The Future of Asparagus 



Large Live Oaks 



Catalpa speciosa 



Nicotiana Suaveolens 



Distribution of Plants 



Blue and Other Colored Gla.ss 



Notes and Queries — No. 11 



EDITORIAL NOTES: 



The Polyanthus — Abies Mariesii — A New .Japan Fir 

 — Fragaria vesca — Planting the Partridge Berry — 

 Aristolochia Sipho — Grafted Conifers — Introducing 

 Sky Larks— Origin of the Mareschal Neil Rose— The 

 European Winter — The Broad Fir — Varying Taste 

 in Gardening — Groundsof Wm. Gray, Jr., in Boston, 

 Mass. — Winter (Gardens — Cotoneaster — Ampelopsis 

 japonica— Golden Gate Park, .San Francisco— Spir- 



sea Lobata 



Cold Greenhouses— Origin of Fuchsia Globosa — 

 Business Prospects— Rupp's Primroses— Crotons — 

 Double Geraniums — Injurious Effect of (ias on Win- 

 dow Plants 



Sweet Home, Black-cap Raspberry— The Leading 

 Apples in New York— The Bottle Greening and 

 Cooper's Market Apples— The Brighton Cirape- 

 Early Grapes— Burre Clairgeau— The Grape Rot- 

 Picking Apples for Distant Markets — Rickett's 

 Grapes— Winter Nelis Pear- "Cultivating'' Fruit 



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108-109 



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116-118 



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119-120 



122-123 



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Trees — New Peas — Degeneration vi Potatoes — 

 Mushroom Growing — The Sweet Potato in Eng- 

 land — Prohibiting the Importation of Living Plants 



—The Alexander Peach 111-li:j 



How to Prepare Sumac — Scarcity of the Hemlock 

 Spruce — Curiosity of the AVoods — A AVonderful Tree 

 — Re-wooding of Mountains in France with Ailan- 

 thus glandulosa — The Walnut and its Use.s — Forest 



Culture 114- lift 



Hybrid Flowers — Fertilization of Yucca — Darling- 

 tonia Californica— Destruction of Insect Eggs, etc., 

 l)y Frost — Pinus Balfouriana — Tlie American Philo- 

 sophical Society — Foliation — Director Goodale of 



the Cambridge Botanic Garden 120-122 



Editorial Letter — Public Squares of Boston — Forest 

 Hill Cemetery — Injustice to Gardeners — American 

 Coal in England — Balm of Gilead— Mosaiculture— 

 Fifty Years an Editor — A Long Term of Service 

 — Dr. A. C. Williams— Illinois State Horticultural 

 Society, 1878 — The Cambridge Botanic Garden — The 

 Ohio Journal of Floriculture — (ireenhouse Catalogue 

 of Robert Buist, Sr. — Practical Taxidermy— Obituary 

 —Alexander Burnett— Jacob Stauffer 12-3-128 



SCRAPS AND QUERIES: 



Second Flowering of the Horse Chestnut — Too Many 



Roses — Ligustrura Japonicum 101-102 



Cutting Camellia Flowers — Plant Queries — Thanks 

 —Verbena Cultui-e — Centaurea — Fine Cinerarias — 

 Eucharis Araazonica — Frames for Tender Plants — 

 Steam Heating in Greenhouses — New (tarnation 



Marie 



Durability of Timber — Catalpa Bungei 



FLOWER GARDEN AND PLEASURE GROUND 



GREENHOUSE AND HOUSE GARDENING 



FRUIT AND VEGETABLE GARDENING 



FORESTRY 



NATURAL HISTORY AND SCIENCE 



LITERATURE, TRAVELS AND PERSONAL NOTES... 



10(5-107 

 116 



97-102 

 102-107 

 108-113 

 114-116 

 116-122 

 122-128 



