The Gardeners Monthly 



AND HORTICULTURIST, 



EDITED BY THOMAS MEEHAN. 



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CONTENTS OF THE DECEMBER NUMBER. 



SEASONABLE HINTS : 



Flower Garden and Pleasure Ground 353-354 



Greenhouse and House Gardening 361-362 



COMMUNICATIONS : 



Park Decoration in the West 354-355 



Garden Scions 356 



A New Method with Tuberoses 356-357 



The American Banner Rose 357 



Gladiolus Communis 357 



Tree Roses 358 



Osage Orange Hedges 358-359 



Cut Flower Trade. — Hybrids 362 



Bryophyllum Calycinum 362-363 



Watering Greenhouses with a Hose 363 



One Use of Slate in Greenhouse Building 363-364 



Cool Orchids. — Stanhopeas 364-365 



Striped Pelargoniums 365 



Plumbago Capensis and Jasminum Grandiflorum 365-366 



The Brighton Grape 368 



Swamp Muck 368-369 



The Catawba Grape 369 



Caladium Esculentum 371 



Notes and Queries — No. 17 372 



The Mississippi Valley Horticultural Society 377-378 



EDITORIAL NOTES : 



Memorial Trees — Red Colchican Maple — Rhododen- 

 drons — Climbing Hybrid Perpetuals 359-360 



Ivy-leaf Pelargonium Gloire d'Orleans — Lapageria — 

 Cypripedium insigne — Table Decorations — Double Cin- 

 erarias 366-367 



The Coe Grape — Yeast Fungus for Destroying Insects 

 — The Japan Persimmon — California Pears — The Phyl- 

 loxera in Europe — Fay's Prolific Currant..' 369-370 



Gutta Percha — Flora of China and Japan — Abies and 



Picea 371 



Robert Buist 37a-373 



The Western Farmer of America — The Virginias — Mr. 

 Laxton's Paper on Roses — Newspaper Paragraphs — 

 Prof. C. E. Bessey — Kansas State Horticultural Soci- 

 ety — First Annual Report of the Bureau of Statistics 

 and Geology of Indiana — Thirteenth Annual Report 

 of Ohio State Horticultural Society— Mr. Samuel L. 

 Boardman— B. F. Johnstone — The London Journal of 

 Horticulture — The Southern Enterprise — The Char- 

 acceae of America— Dairy Farming 372-377 



QUERIES: 



Schinus MoUe— Ants— Propagating the Maiden Hair 



Tree— Varieties of Norway Spruce .«*••• 360-36 



Queries — Solanum Azureum — Croton Spirale 36 



The Original Seckel PearTree— Brett Peach— Growing 



Pine Apples— Antiquity of the Curculio 37° 



NEW PLANTS: 

 Double Bouvardia. 



367 



FLOWER GARDEN AND PLEASURE GROUND.. 353-^61 



GREENHOUSE AND HOUSE GARDENING, 361-368 



FRUIT AND VEGETABLE GARDENING 368-370 



NATURAL HISTORY AND SCIENCE 37^ 



LITERATURE.TRAVELSAND PERSONAL NOTES 37»-373 

 HORTICULTURAL SOCIETIES 377-J78 



