The Gardener's Monthly 



AND HORTICULTURIST. 



EDITED BY THOMAS MEEHAN, 



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CONTENTS OF THE FEBRUARY NUMBER. 



SEASONABLE HINTS: 



Flower Garden and Pleasure Ground 



Green-House and House Gardening 



Fruit and Vegetable Gardening 



CORRESPONDENCE: 



Touchmg the Hardihood ol Conifers 



Celastrus Scandens 



Trees in Cities 



Growing the Poinsetta 



Bouvardia Humboldtii Corymbiflor»- 



Tar in Greenhouses 



Notes on a Summer's Tour 



Hot Water Heating 



The Icing Water-Melon 



Management of the Bark of Fruit Trees 



Don't Use the Hatchet or Saw 



That Little Turk 



Grapes — Training and Mildew 



Do Plants Need Water 



The Potato Disease 



Tobacco as Manure 



Resting Spores of the Potato Fungus 



Kansas State Horticultural Society 



EDITORIAL NOTES : 



PreparingTimber — Forest Planting in Massachusetts — 

 Spirsea Sorbifolia — Hardy Begonias — Pinus Cembra — 

 Wild Gardens — An Election for Roses — Acerstriatum — 

 Achillea umbellata for White Edgings — Mammoth 



Rose Tree 



Roses for Winter Buds — Tacsonia insignis — Hardi- 

 ness of the Coflfee — Lilies of the Valley— Bouvardia 

 jaaminiflora — Names of Ferns — Violet Victoria 

 Regina — Geranium, Happy Thought — Olea Fragrans. 

 Fruiting of Hickory Trees — Preserving Grapes for 

 Winter Use— Planting Hickories— Good Old Strawber- 

 ries — The Wilder Pear— Trained Gooseberries — ^The 

 European Sparrow and the Fruit Bud&— The Three 



Earliest Peaches i 



Pinus Aristata — Utilizing the Rain— Rofia Fibers — 

 Pronunciation of De CandoUe — New Colorado and 



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 62 



36-37 



50-61 



California Plants — Fertilization of Campanula — Varia- 

 bility of Conifers — Australian Grape Fungus — The 

 Pear (Pyrns Communis), and Apple (Pyrus Mains, — 



Species of American Plums 55-68 



Acknowledgments — A Wedding in Iowa — Where 

 Plants can be Purchased — Latin Names for Garden 

 Varieties — Pottsville, Pa — Low Price of American 

 Nursery Stock — Responsibility of Seedsmen — Flowers 

 in Cemeteries — Ann. Report Penna. Fruit Grower's 

 Society, 1875 — Sixth Biennial Report Board Trustees, 

 Iowa State Agricultural College. 1874 and 1875— David 

 Webster— John Ellis — Text Book of Scientific Agricul- 

 ture — Landrelh's Rural Register — Vick's Flower aad 

 Vegetable Garden — Centennial Historical Calendar — 

 American Naturalist — Rural Journal — The Garden — 



Practical Farmer 59-61 



Southern States Agricultural and Industrial Exposi- 

 tion — The Centennial Exhibition 6& 



NEW PLANTS: 



Dahlia gracilis — Gladiolus cruentus — Rhus panacifor- 

 mis — Rhus Rufa — Fraxinus longicupsis- Wistaria 

 macrobotrys — Magnolia Campbell! — Gymnothrix 

 latifolia — Viburnum Awafuki— Tamarix plu aosa— 



Daphnipbyllum Roxborghii 37-3» 



NEW FRUITS: 



MarshaU Pear 61-6« 



NATURAL HISTORY AND SCIENCE SMft 



LITERATURE, TRAVELS AND PERSONAL NOTES.... 69-«2 



HORTICULTURAL SOCIETIES 82-64 



QUERIES: 



Rare Evergreens in Maryland — Disease in Evergreens 



— Chiccocca racenosa — Raising Thorn Seed 38-89 



Diseased Geranium Leaves 45 



Plum Culture — Variation in Apples — Grape Borders — 



Blush Pippin Apple 32 



Drocera Roots and Water— Cross Fertilization of 



Fruits — Plants' Names — Fungi 68 



Pronunciation of Gladiolus— Forestry— Re-priutlng 



the first Volume ** 



