The Gardeners Monthly 



AND HOETICULTURIST, 



EDITED BY THOMAS MEEHAN. 



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CONTENTS OF THE OCTOBER NUMBER. 



SEASONABLE HINTS : 



Flower Garden and Pleasure Ground 289-290 



Greenhouse and House Gardening 39s 



Fruit and Vegetable Gardening 801-302 



COMMUNICATIONS : 



Woman in Horticulture 



La France Rose..... 



Three Popular Honeysuckles 



Hygienic and Therapeutic Relations of House-Plants . 



Neat Greenhouses 



Stephanotis fl jribunda. . . ; 



Moss Mulching 



The Fragrant Olive 



Some Handsome Plants 



Protection of Trees from the Sun 



Splitting the Bark of Trees 



Standard and other Gooseber. ies 



The Tyson Pear 



Forestry in North America 



Catalpa Posts 



The Apple Leaf Fungus— Roestelia cancellata 



The Ciing-Stone Apricot 



Gardeners and Situations. 



Notes and Queries, No 17.. 



Humbugs in Horticulture 



29C-293 



293 

 293-394 

 295-297 



297 

 297-298 



298 

 298-299 

 299-300 

 302-303 



303 

 303-30* 



304 

 305-307 



308 

 3 -.8-309 

 311-313 

 312-314 

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EDITORIAL NOTES : 



The Best Rose— Xanthoceros sorbifolia— The Hemlock 

 Spruce— Lilium Parryi— Public Spirit— Lily Culture.. 

 Plants in Living Rooms — PauHinia thalictrifalid — De- 

 corative Art 



Local Names— Insects in 1882 — New Southern Peaches 

 —Origin of the Ribston Pippin Apple— Family Favorite 

 Peach— Mealy Bug in Hothouse Grapes — Artificial 



Pine-Apples — The Sea Radish — Big Cucumbers 304-305 



Poplar for Paper — A Tall Gum Tree — Forestry in 



Canada — Wood for Paper Makers 307-308 



Sedum Meehani, Meehan's Stone Crop— The Annual 

 Rings in Trees— Girdling Trees — Honey Dew — The 

 Ox-eye Daisy — The English Sparrow — Native Califor- 

 nian Tobacco— Change of Habit in Creatures— Germina- 

 tion of Seeds 309-311 



Horticultural Information — The Late Robert Buist — 

 Wilson's School-house — Introduction of the Potato in 

 Salt Lake City — Origin of the Noisette Rose — Botany 

 for High Schools and Colleges — La Vigne Francaise — 

 The Marshfield Elm— How to Tell Wheat from Cheat 

 — The Lily of the Field— Nurseries in Canada — Napo- 

 leon's Willow— Mr. Henry Shaw— The Plough versus 

 the Spade — Mahlon Moon — Kew Herbarium — Profes- 

 sor Asa Gray — Experiments at the Michigan Agricul- 

 tural College 3»4-3»7 



Pennsylvania Horticultural Society — Instructive Hor- 

 ticultural Societies — A New Agricultural Society 319-320 



SCRAPS AND QUERIES : 



Fall-Planting Larch 



Genista tinctoria - Caladium Wild., 



308 

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FLOWER GARDEN AND PLEASURE GROUND. . 289-294 



GREENHOUSE AND HOUSE GARDENING 295-300 



FRUIT AND VEGETABLE GARDENING 301-305 



FORESTRY 305-308 



NATURAL HISTORY AND SCIENCE 308-31T 



LITERATURE.TRAVELS AND PERSONAL NOTES 311-317 

 HORTICULTURAL SOCIETIES , 317-320 



