The Gardener's Monthly 



AND HORTICULTURIST., 



EDITED BY THOMAS MEEHAN, 



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CONTENTS OF THE JANUARY NUMBER. 



SEASONABLE HINTS: 



Flower (jarden and Pleasure Ground i 



Green-House and House Gardening 7 



Fruit and Vegetable Gardening ]2 



CORRESPONDENCE: 



Plea for Planting Pyrus Coronaria 2 



jEsthetics in Conservatories, No. 2 8 



Free and CI ing-Stone Peaches l-i 



Black Walnut i:{ 



Grape Growing at Galveston i;i 



Comet Peach 14 



Eldred ClingPeach 15 



Abies Macrocarpora. Now ConifiTOus Tree 21 



Do Plants Need Water 22 



Poi.soning by Rhus 26 



Gardeners at Galveston 2t; 



EDITORIAL 19.20 



EDITORIAL NOTES : 



Waterproof Packing Paper— Beechcroft's Wheel Hoe- 

 Automatic Gate— Tulip Tree in England— Wintering 



Echeverias — Arundo Conspicua 4-,T 



Calla ^thiopica— Button-hole Roses— Treatment of 

 Oranges— Verbenas from Seed— Euphorbia jacquinje- 



flora 9.10 



Strawberry Fertilizer— Profitable Bce-Keeping— Dreer's 



Lima Bean— Remedy forCelery-fly— Dwarf Apples \r,.\i; 



Disease in the Lirch— Immediate effects of Cross Fer- 

 tilization of Fruit.s— Fungus Cracking the Pear- 

 Toughened Glass— Rapidity of Growth of Timber Trees 22-24 

 Law of Purchasing Plants— The Baobab Tree— Per- 

 sonal— Billieu's Comet Peach— .^gaveVirginica— Bind- 

 ing the Advertisements— Thanks— Alfred Cope— Death 

 of Dr. Hull— R. Buist's Catalogue— Botanical Bulletin 



— .\nierican .Agriculturist — Scientific Monthly — .\n- 



nual Register — Gardening lor Pleasure 27-29 



Centennial Exhibition — Philadelphia Academy Natural 

 Sciences — New York Horticultural Society — Winter 

 Meetings of State Horticultural Societies — American 

 Pomological Society — I'enu.sylvania Fruit Growers' 



Society 30-32 



NEW PLANTS: 



Physanthus albens; — Penstemon humilis — New Hardy 

 Trees — New Strain of Draconas — Pyracantha Japonica 

 — Styrax .Taponica — Deutzia crenatea Candidissima 



plena — '.ve'gela Lavellei 5-9 



S'lver-leaved Plants — '^axifragaHuetii 10-11 



NEW FRUITS: 



Tlu! Northampton .\ppli — Lucy Grieve Pear ... 16 



NATURAL HISTORY AND SCIENCE 21-26 



LITER.VTURE, TR.WELS AND PER.SONAL NOTES.... 26-30 



HOHTK ULTURAL SOCIETIES 30-82 



• iUERIES: 



Disease in Palms — Tobacco as Manure — Double Lobelia 



— Cultivation of Ericas — Coleiis Chameleon 



Petition — Phyllo.xera ou the Roots of Grape — Wild 

 Celery — Grapes for a Cold Grapery — Highland Hardy 

 Raspberry — New Early Peaches — Apples for South- 

 Eastern New .Jersey — Red Fleshed Apple — Winter 

 (i rafting of the PInm— Plum Growing— Seedless Per- 

 simmon 



Depth of Roots; — Aponogeton Distachyon — The Potato 

 Disease — Female Weeping Willow — Emblematic Des- 

 cription of the Passion Flower— The Charter Oak- 

 Rocky .Mountain Silver Spruce 24-2<5 



Gladiolus — Hidden .\dvertisements... 29-:!o 



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