The Gardeners Monthly 



AND HORTICULTUEIST, 



EDITED BY THOMAS MEEHAN. 



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CONTENTS OF THE NOVEMBER NUMBER. 



SEASONABLE HINTS : 



Flower Garden and Pleat ure G round 32 1-322 



Greenhouse and House Gardening 328-336 



COMMUNICATIONS : 



The Best Autumcal Roses Among Hybrid Perpetuals 322 



Cross-fertilizing and Raising Roses from Seed in 



England 332-325 



A Plea for the Old-fashioned Lavender 325 



Garden Scions 325-.26 



Cut-Flower Trade.— MarescVal Niel 329 



PauUinia and Euphorbia ' 3*9-33° 



Mareschal Niel Rose. 33° 



Sash Bars 330 



The Catalonian Jasmine 330-331 



Peter Henderson Cam»tion 331 



Hygienic and Therapeutic Relations of House -Plants . 331-334 



Market Gardening 33^337 



The Plough vs. the Spade 337-338 



London Market Gardening » 338 



The Early Rose Peach 338 



Forestiy in North America 341-344 



Virginia Autumn Scensry 344 



Asclepiadaceae 345 



Notes and Queries. No 18 346-347 



Humbugs in Horticulture 35 --352 



EDITORIAL NOTES : 



Cranston's Rose Nursery at Hereford, England— Acer 

 Plantanoides Aurea variegatum Buntzleii — A French 

 Collection of Roses — Yucca gloriosa — Salvia farinacea 

 New Verbenas — Nicotiana suaveolens — Tree Combi- 

 nations—Roses — Public Patks and Gardens — Autumn 

 Berries— Cornelia Kach Rose— Sunflowers in Autumn. 316-327 

 Public Decoraliors— Double Bouvardia— Rose Perle 

 des jardins— Orchids in America— Orchid Growing — 

 Burbidgea Nitida 334 



Killing Codling Moth and Canker Worm— Plums — 

 Fire Blight and Yellows— New Grape Disease— Dr. 



Ryder's American Fruit Drier— Mushrooms 3S8-339 



Convolvulus arvensis — Climate and Grape Culture — 

 Retrogression — A New Varnish Plant — Peculiarities of 



Seasons — The "Shittim" Wood of Scriptures 345-34^ 



Gardening in the Southern Mountains — The Gardener's 

 Monthly for i8£i— He Only Stole a Flower — Ampelo- 

 grapbs — C. M. Hovey — Noticing Catalogues — The 

 Town of Greely — Keeping One Cow— Wheat Culture — 



Agricultural College 347-350 



Floral Designs — Fine Geraniums— BouVardia, Bride of 



Brooklyn 35a 



SCRAPS AND QUERIES : 



Variegated Ailanthiis — Ampelopsis Viiginica — Ken- 

 tucky Blue Grass— Salt on Walks— Hardiness of Hya- 



cinlhus candicans 327-328 



Palms— Fish Hook Cactus • Mareschal Niel Rose— 

 Achyranthus Gilsoni— Half-hardy Greenhoute Plants 



— Camphor and Tobacco Stems 334-33^ 



Hennetta Pesch— Moore's Early Grape — Seckel Pears 

 from the Original Trte— Asparagus and Grape Insects 

 —New Native Plums— New White Grapes frcm Col. 

 Wilder— Hayes Grape— Brown Beurre Pear— Grafting 

 Peach Trees— Fruits for Kansas— Mass Mulching- 

 Seedling Grape — Ish. m Sweet Apple— Fruit Insects in 



California 339-34' 



Gentiana Andrewsii — Abnormal Buds 34^ 



Gladioli or Gladioluses— Pindars 35o-35» 



FLOWER GARDEN AND PLEASURE GROUND.. 321-328 



GREENHOUSE AND HOUSE GARDENING 328-336 



FRUIT AND VEGETABLE GARDENING 336-341 



FORESTRY 341-344 



NATURAL HISTORY AND SCIENCE 344-3*6 



LITERATURE.TRAVELS AND PERSONALNOTES 346-3S1 

 HORTICULTURAL SOCIETIES 3Si-35« 



