The Gardener's Monthly 



AND HORTICULTURIST, 



EDITED BY THOMAS MEEHAN, 



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CHAS, H. MAROTf Publisher, 814 Chestnut St,, Phila. 



CONTENTS OF THE MAY NUMBER. 



SEASONABLE HINTS: 



Flower Garden and Pleasure Ground 129-130 



Greenhouse and House Gardening 135 



Fruit and Vegetable Gardening 141-142 



COMMUNICATIONS : 



The Hollyhock 



The Nootka Sound Cypress 



Improvements 



Essay on Horticultural Progress 



Hollywood Park 



The German Method of Preserving Flowers... 



Forcing Lilium Candidum 



Orchids at Baltimore 



The Mandevilla Suaveolens 



Steam Heating 



Damage by the Larvae of the Rose Bug 



Amaranth Sunrise 



Plants for Greenhouses in Summer 



Neatness in Gardening 



Progress in New Fruits '. 



The Brighton Grape 



The Jefferson Grape 



A Raspberry Root Insect 



Japanese Persimmons Again 



Firming the Soil , 



Pine and Oak Forests 



Timber Statistics 



Blue and Other Colored Glass 



The Sky Lark in America 



Some Early Virginian Spring Flowers 



Shortia galacifolia 



Notes and Queries — No. 12 



144 



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 132-133 j 

 136 

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139-140 ; 



142 

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142-143 

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143-144 



145 j 



146 I 

 148-149 i 



149 i 

 149-150 : 



150 i 

 , 153-154 



EDITORIAL NOTES: 



Bad Effects of the Mild Winter — Rose Culture in 

 America — Pruning Injured Trees — Memorial Trees 

 — Germantown — Tom Thumb Arbor vitae — How to 



Propagate Mistletoe— The Japan Snowball 



Lamp Stoves — Heating Small Conservatories— Raffia 



Fibre 



Californian Fruits — Apples and Pears on the Poto- 



138-134 

 140-141 



mac — A Large Potato Order — New Bush Beans 



Some Large Cucumbers 



Planting Trees — Tree Planting in Massachusetts — 



Profits of Timber Culture 146-147 



The Missouri Botanic Garden — Premium to Mr. 

 Darwin — New or Rare Native Plants — Pronunci- 

 ation of Botanical Names — English Names — The 

 Waratah — The VS'^histling Tree —The Maiden Hair 



Tree — Science in Australia — Australian Botany 150-1.51 



Gardeners and Situations — Floricultural Mission- 

 aries — Evolution and Creation — Natural Science and 

 Religion — Forty Years of Pear Growing ; telling 

 how to avoid the Blight and Insure Good Crops — 

 Sheldon's Dairy Farming — Diary of a Bird — Success 

 with Small Fruits — Fruit Grower's Friend — Com- 

 mercial Relations with Canada — Accurate Catalogues 

 Post Gardening — John Dick, Jr. — Robert Fortune — 

 Dr. Howsley — J. W. Manning — F.Andre Michaux... 154-l-59> 

 Pennsylvania Horticultural Society — The Eighth 

 Cincinnati Industrial Exposition — American Asso- 

 ciation of Nurserymen — The Massachusetts Horti- 

 tural Society — Kansas State Horticultural Society — 

 The New York Horticultural Society 159-160 



NEW OR RARE PLANTS : 



Rose ,Iules Chretien — Early Flowering Chrysanthe- 

 mums 134-135 



SCRAPS AND QUERIES: 



A Beautiful Striped Rose— The Hollyhock in Con- 

 necticut 135- 



Yellows in the Peach — California Raisins 145 



Trees for Southern Kansas 14^ 



Foliation and Heat 151-152: 



FLOWER GARDEN AND PLEASURE GROUND 129-13& 



GREENHOUSE AND HOUSE GARDENING 135-141 



FRUIT AND VEGETABLE GARDENING 141-145 



FORESTRY 145-148 



NATURAL HISTORY AND SCIENCE 148-152 



i LITERATURE, TRAVELS AND PERSONAL NOTES... 153-159 

 HORTICULTURAL SOCIETIES 159-160 



