The Gardener's Monthly 



AND HORTICULTURIST, 



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



CONTENTS OF THE JUNE NUMBER. 



SEASONABLE HINTS: 



Flower Garden and Pleasure Ground 161-162 



Fruit and Vegetable Gardening 172-17.S 



COMMUNICATIONS : 



Essay on Horticultural Progress 162-163 



Hollywood Park 16.3-165 



The Alternanthera as a Lawn Plant •l6.5 



Two Hardy Ferns 16.5-166 



Nicotiana Suaveolens 166 



Destroying Wood Lice 166 



Cool House Orchids 168-169 



Steam Heating , 169-170 



Carnation Peter Henderson 170 



Orchid Culture 170-171 



Eucharis Amazonica. 171 



Forcing Lilies .' 171 



Eucharis Amazonica. 171-172 



Beurre Clairgeau 173-174 



Beurre Clairgeau Pear 174-175 



Potatoes and Melons 175 



Central California Forestry 178 



Extract from my Note Book 179-180 



Ferns of Southern California 180-181 



Notes from Washington Territory 181-182 



Notes and Queries— No. 13 18.3-185 



EDITOBIAL NOTES: 



Clinton Flower Market, New York— Our Garden 

 Chrysanthemums— The Garden— A South Carolina 

 Garden — The Transplantation of Trees— Horticul- 

 tural Progress — Auction Sales 166-167 



Orchids at Public Sale — Fuchsia Earl of Beacons- 

 field 172 



American Pomological Society — ^Waterloo Peach— 

 Ratfia Fibre— June Budding Fruit Trees— The Elec- 

 tric Light 175-177 



Forest Fires — Forestry Census. 178 



The Barf ram Oak— The Fileree of California— The 



Tallow Tree — Picea Pungens 



Kind Words— Dignity of a Seedsman— Prof. Cope 

 and the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadel- 

 phia— S. Sands — Intelligent Florists and Land- 

 scape < iardeners— Coflfee Culture in Liberia— Pear 

 Progenitors— Mr. Downing's Note on Barry— The 

 Late David Landreth— Lecture on Squashes— Russell 

 P. Eaton — Rosebank Nurseries— Prize Essay on New 

 Hardy Ornamental Shrubs— The American (iarden 

 —Practical Camellia Culture — American (irape 

 Growing and AVine Making— Horticulture at the 

 Paris Exposition— Muscle Beating— Nebraska State 

 Board of Agriculture for 1879— Transactions of the 

 Iowa Horticultural Society— Col. Vernon Harcourt 



— M. Souchet— Death of E. .L Evans 



The Nurserymen's Convention— Report of the Con- 

 necticut State Board of Agriculture- Michigan Po- 

 mological Society— New York Horticultural Society 

 — Pennsylvania Horticultural Society 



SCRAPS AND QUERIES: 



Salvias — Eaithern Flower Pots. 



Aphis on Strawberry Roots— Schumaker Peach — 



Hybridizing Strawberries— Raspberry Borer 



Catalpa Wood — Growth of Timber 



Range of Indian Corn — Hybrid Heliotrope — Drying 



Flowers 



Correction— Notes from Col. Wilder— Correction 



191-192 



177-178 

 179 



183 

 191 



FLOWER GARDEN AND PLEASURE GROUND 161-167 



GREENHOUSE AND HOUSE GARDENING 168-172 



FRUIT AND VEGETABLE GARDENING 172-178 



178-179 



179-183 



LITERATURE, TRAVELS AND PERSONAL NOTES... 183-191 



HORTICULTURAL SOCIETIES 191-192 



FORESTRY. 



NATURAL HISTORY AND SCIENCE.. 



