The Gardeners Monthly 



AND HOETICULTURIST, 



EDITED BY THOMAS MEEHAN. 



It is published on the first of every month, at the office. No 814 CHESTNUT STREET, 

 PHILADELPHIA, where all Business communications should be addressed. 

 Communications for the Editor should be addressed : Thomas Meehan, Germantown, Phila. 



SUBSCRIPTION PRICE, POSTAGE-PAID, $2.10. 



ADVERTISING RATES IN THE GARDENER'S MONTHLY: 



14 col. 



or 



12 lines. 



J^col. 



y^ col. 



i^col. 



J^col 



or 



or 



One Insertion. igiS.OO 

 Two times, each, 2.90 

 Three '' " 



Four ' 



Five ' 



Six 



Seven ' 



Eight 



Nine 



Ten 



Eleven 



Twelve 



2.80 

 2.70 

 2.5.5 

 2.H5 

 2.20 

 2.05 

 1.90 

 1.75 

 1.60 

 1.50 



than 1/^ col. will be furnished 

 page, also FIRST PAGE ad 



48 lines 

 i^lO.OO 

 9.00 

 8.50 

 8 10 

 7.65 

 7.0> 

 6.60 

 6.15 

 6.70 

 5.25 

 4.80 

 4.50 



1 col. 

 or 



9(5 lines. 



$18.00 



17.00 



15.50 



14.40 



13.60 



12.45 



11.75 



10.95 



10.15 



9.30 



8.55 



8.00 



1 page. 



or 



192 linea. 



16 lines. 241ines. . .32 11068. 



$4.00 $5.50 S7.00 



3.90 5.00 6.80 



3.75 4.75 6.55 



3.60 4.50 6.30 



3.40 4.25 5.95 



3.15 3.93 5.50 



2.95 3.65 5.15 



2.75 3.45 4.80 



2.45 3.20 4 45 



2.30 2.85 4 .05 



2.15 2.65 3.75 



2.00 2.50 3.50 

 Twelve lines nonpareil is }/g col A le<=s space \ 

 For space on FLY-LEAK and LAST COVER 

 advance on above ratfs will be charged. 



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



S35.00 

 33.00 

 30.00 

 27.00 

 25.50 

 23.50 

 22.00 

 20.50 

 18.85 

 17.45 

 16.15 

 15.00 



at same rate per line as J/^ col. 



vertisements facing last rtading page. 20 per cent. 



CONTENTS OF TH 



SEASONABLE HINTS : 



Flower Garden and Pleasure Ground a 193 



Green House and House Gardening »oo 



Fruit and Vegetable Gardening '04 



COMMUNICATIONS : 



A Handsome Town *94 



Beautifying Railroad Lines »9S 



How to Grow Chinese Primroses Successfully aoo 



Heating Greenhouses "" 



Fragrant Flowers »<» 



Henry Cannel Gen nium «o» 



Eucharis Amazonica «0* 



Stephanotis Floribunda »o» 



Progress in New Fruits «03 



Facts are Stubborn Things 'oS 



The Peach Aphis ao6 



Protecting Young Apple Trees from Borers 207 



The Sweet Pippin Apple »o7 



Aaierican Forestry »»<» 



Ferns of Southern California »" 



On the Fertilization of Yucca ««4 



Notes from South Carolina »*S 



EDITORIAL NOTES : 



Standard Roses— An International Park— A Flower 

 Sermon — Hydrangea paniculata — Hydrangea Thun- 

 l>ergii^Elaeagnus longipes — American Trees in England 

 Standard Plants — Old fashioned Gardening — About 



Honeysuckles— Lilies 196-199 



Tea Rose Comtesse Riga du Pare — Window Flowers — 

 Bouquet Making — Anthuriumandrearium— Glass Roofs 



Prices of Orchids 203-204 



A Furore in New Grapes — Blight, Mildew and Rust 

 — American Grape Vines and the Phylloxera — Large 

 Japan Persimmon — Cherry, Ne Plus Ultra — Apples 



E JULY NUMBER. 



for Australia — Rivers' Early Silver Peach— The Mann 

 Apple — The Dum Strawberry — The Phylloxera in Eu- 

 rope 208-209 



Directions of Nutrition— Thuja Standishii — Fungus 

 Spores — Destruction of Plants in Winter — Forests and 

 the Atmosphere — The Golden Cup Oak— Relative In- 

 fluence of Sex in Fertilization 116-217 



Editors and Correspondents — Charles C. Frost— The 

 Almond — Rosewood — An Ancient Seed Shop — John W. 

 Harden — Flowers and Ferns of the United States — 

 Beet Sugar Culture — Success with Small Fruits — 

 Dairy Farming — Annual Report of Noith Caro- 

 lina Experimental Station for I879 — First Biennial Re- 

 port of the State Board of Agriculture of Kansas — Ceme- 

 tery Gardening — Gardening 219-123 



Mississippi Valley Horticultural Society — Nursery- 

 men's Meeting at Chicago 223 3*4 



SCRAPS AND QUERIES : 



Begonia hybrida — Azaleas 204 



Peaches — Swamp Muck — Smith's Improved Goose- 

 berry 309-210 



Varieties ef Pitcher Plants — Indigenous and Exotic. . . »i7-2x8 

 Notes anc Queries, No 14 218 



FLOWER GARDEN AND PLEASURE GROUND. . 193-199 



GREENHOUSE AND HOUSE GARDENING 200-204 



FRUIT AND VEGETABLE GARDENING 204-210 



FORESTRY 2i<>-2i» 



NATURAL HISTORY AND SCIENCE 212-218 



LITERATURE. TRAVELS AND PERSONAL NOTES 218-223 

 HORTICULTURAL SOCIETIES 223-224 



