The Gardener's Monthly 



AND HORTICULTURIST. 



EDITED BY THOMAS MEEHAN, 



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CONTENTS OF THE FEBRUARY NUMBER. 



SEASONABLE HINTS: 



Flower G\rden and Pleasure Ground 65-72 



Green- House and House Gardening 72-78 



Fruit and Vegetable Gardening 78-83 



CORRESPONDENCE: 



Forest Hill Cemetery 66 



Rhode Island BentGra«s 67 



The English Sparrow 69 



A Few Facts About Callas 73 



Myrsiphyllum Asparagoides 74 



Richardia Alba Maculata 75 



June Peach Budding 79 



Self Opening Gates 79 



Rapidity of Growth of Timber Trees 84 



The Forests of Michigan 84 



Potato Rot 87 



The Charter O.ik 91 



Pennsylvania Fruit Growers' Society 94 



Gerniantown Horticultural Society 95 



Kansas Horticultural Society 95 



EDITORIAL NO TES : 



Rattan trellis — The Hollyhock — Aralia papyrifera, 

 hardy — An avenue of Oranges — A Hedge of Geraniums 

 — ^The Misiletoe — Chimnnanthus fragrans — The Um- 

 brella Pine (Sciadopitys verticillata) 70 



The Christmas Rose — Variegated Sage — Unhealthy 

 Camellias — Winter-blooming Fuchsias — The Love of 

 Cut Flowers— A Fine Pot Rose — Eucharis amazonica... 75 

 The Lady Grape — The Southern Red Raspberry — 

 Borecole — Grape, Golden Queen — Preserving Figs — 

 The Walbridge and Edgar Red Streak Apple— The 

 Lettuce Mould— The Wild Goose Plum— The Profit of 

 Filbert Nuts — Fertility resisting Frost— Early Cabbages 

 and Tomatoes — Late Apples — The Mandarin Orange 

 — Brockworth Park and Bonne d'Ezee Pears — Clapp's 

 Favorite Pear — American Potatoes In England — 

 ' American Apples — The Best English Peas — Protecting 

 Trees from Rabbits and Mice — Profits of Forced 



Peaches— The Wilder Peach 80-82 



Forestry in Iowa — Californian Chestnut — English 



Oak Timber — Gum Trees- The Black Spruce — Carolina 



Poplars -^Virtores of the Eucalyptus— Value of Austr*- 



•"lian Gum Wood — Catalpa Timb%r"— the Range of 



96 



71 



American Forests— Slow Tree Growth 85-87 



Spontaneous Combustion — Picea Parsonsiana — Botan- 

 ic Garden of Harvard University — Rhode Island Bent 



Grass — Botanic Gardens 88-90' 



Advertisements — W. H. Bailey — ^The Horticulturist — 

 The Cut Flower Trade of Baltimore — Private Gardens 

 about Baltimore — Flowers in New York — Not a New 

 Candidate — Blue Roses, Strawberries on Tree?, Ac. — 

 Trees for Nothing — Kansas .Vgricultural Report. 1875 

 — The Waban Greenhouses of E. A Wood & Co. — Mr. 



Darwin-Edwin .Sattcrthwait 91-9S 



The Centennial Exhibition — Organization of the Nur- 

 sery Business — A Botanico-Horticultural Congress — 

 The Central Horticultural Society of France — Alton 

 Horticultural Society — Western New York Horticul- 

 tural Society — Massacliusetis Horticultural Society 



NEW PLANTS: 



Abifs alcoquiana — Improved Petunias — Xanthoceras 

 sorhifolia — Pentsteraon Palraeri, Gray — Brodiw Volu- 



bilis, Baker (Stropholirion Californicum. Torrey) 



Violet Victoria Regina— New Variegated Fern — Dah- 

 lia Maxiniilllana— Zonale Pelargonium, Distinction- 

 Clematis ligustic! folia — Alocasia odorata 76-77 



NEW FRUITS AND VKGETABLF^: 



Large Montmorency Cherry — Paul's Improved Crab — 

 Souvenir du Congress Pear— Two New French Pears — 



Dr. McLean Pea 82-83 



FORESTRY 84-87 



NATURAL HISTORY AND SCIENCE 87-91 



LITERATURE, TRAVELS AND PERSONAL NOTES.... 91-94 

 HORTICULTURAL SOCIETIES 94-98 



QUERIES: 



Tlie Charter Oak— Rocky>»Iountaln Silver Spruce- 

 Raising Cle9iatises— Tar Walks 71-72 



Rubus rossefolius— Diseases in Violets— Propagating 



Begonias ''' 



Musliroonj^ Culture— Black's Early Peach— Water at 

 the Roots of Grape Vines— Fruit Culture-^Hlghland 



Hardy Raspberry— Oyster Shell Lime 83 



Work on Forestry .,,^ ^....- •,■ • ■ "^ 



Plants for Name— Mixing of Potatoe.<« by Pollen— The 

 Tomato Diseaie: • ^ 



