The Gardener's Monthly 



AND HOETICULTURIST, 



EDITED BY THOMAS MEEHAN, 



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CONTENTS OF THE MARCH NUMBER. 



SEASONABLE HINTS: . 



Flower Garden and Pleasure Ground 65-66 ' 



Fruit and Vegetable Gardening 77-79 



CORRESPONDENCE: 



The Comparative Hardiness of Certain Japanese Li- 



gustrums 66-67 i 



Origin of Fuchsia Lord Beaconsfleld 67 



A Talk about Coleuses— By one of Themselves 67-68 



The Cardinal Flower 68 



Cool Orchids and their Treatment 71-73 j 



Destruction of (ireeuhouse Insects — The Peter Hen- I 



derson Prize Essay 73-75 



Gloxinias 75-76 



The Japan Persimmon 79 



Those Catalpas again — An Enquiry 84-85 i 



The Pear Leaf Mite 85-86 | 



One-flowered Cancer Root 86 



Accidents in Nature 86 



Notes and Queries No. 10 88-89 



Perfumes 89 I 



EDITORIAL NOTES: 



Lilies — Disfigured Lawns — American Plants in Eng- 

 land — Improved Potentillas — Public Roads — Roses in 

 Europe — The Japan Climbing Fern— Lanianas — The 

 Japan Jasmine — The Osage Orange as an Ornamental 

 Tree— Double Portulacas — The Nootka Sound Cypress 



Hollyhocks — Pentstemons 69-70 I 



Dreer's New Coleus — Heating by making Lime — Im- j 



proved Chinese Primroses — Drip in Greenhouses — j 



A Pretty Bouquet 76-77 ' 



Slitting the Bark of Trees — Varieties of Vegetables — 

 Models of Noxious Insects — Firs and Figs— The Hus- 

 bandman — Lennig's White Strawberry — Large 

 Oranges— Grapes for Profit — California Oranges— 

 Strawberries in Scribner— California Raisins — The 

 J>ady Washington Grape — Pear Growing in the 

 South— Peach Growing — The Allen Peach — The 

 Schumaker Peach — Apples in Illinois — Winter Ap- 

 ple for Pennsylvania— The best Strawberries — The 



Wetherbee Raspberry — Green Asparagus — Laxton's 

 Marvel Pea — The Turban Tomato— White Japan Cu- 

 cumber 79-81 



Scarcity of Wood in Pennsylvania — Catalpa Ksemp- 

 feri — Wood of the Paulownia — Catalpas— Our Rocky 



Mountain Evergreens 82-84 



Eupatorium, Ageratum, etc. — Effect of Cold on In- 

 sects — Blue Salvia Splendens 86-87 



Editorial Letter — Lepidium for Bugs — Dreer's Coleus 

 Plate — Addressed Envelopes — Civilization : is its 

 cause Natural or Supernatural? — Refutation of Dar- 

 winism — The Cotton Worm — How to Learn Short- 

 hand without a Teacher — Dairy Farming, Part 7 — 

 The Workshop Companion — Herman Munz — Robert 

 Fortune — Brambleton Gardens, Norfolk, Va. — The 

 Ladies' Floral Cabinet — Case's Botanical Index — Ame- 

 rican Roses — Worcester County, Mass., Horticultural 



Society Transactions forl879 89-95 



Pennsylvania Fruit Growers' Society — Kentucky Hor- 

 ticultural Society — Nurserymen's Association — The 



Horticultural Hall, Philadelphia 95-96 



SCRAPS AND QUERIES: 



Farm Gardens 



Disease in (ireenhouse Plants — German Method of 



Making Flowers Bloom in Winter — Forcing Lilies 



The Best Grape — Permanent Whitewash — Grafting 



Pear on Pyrus Japonica — Vegetables and Beauty 



Foliation — The Flowering Raspberry — (ieography of 



Pellsea atropurpurea — Buffalo Grass 



Floricultural Progress — Priority of Discovery 



70 



77 



82 



\ FLOWER GARDEN AND PLEASURE GROUND 65-70 



! GREENHOUSE AND HOUSE GARDENING 71-77 



' FRUIT AND VEGETABLE GARDENING 77-82 



FORESTRY 82-84 



NATURAL HISTORY AND SCIENCE 84-87 



LITERATURE, TRAVELS AND PERSONAL NOTES 88-96 



HORTICULTURAL SOCIETIES 9.'5-96 



