The Gardener's Monthly 



AND HORTICULTURIST., 



.EDITED BY THOMAS MEEHAN, 



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CONTENTS OF THE JULY NUMBER. 



SEASONABLE HINTS: 



Flower G%rden and Pleasure Ground 19'^ 



Green House and House Gardening 201 



Fruit and Vegetable Gardening 2aV206 



CORRESPONDENCE : 



Rose — Dutchess of Edinburgh 193 



Arboretum Americanum 194 



Note on the Gardens of Germany 198 



Poinsettia Culture 202 



Orchid Culture 202 



The Aquatic Bouquet 'i'S 



How to Destroy the Pear Slug 20t 



Progress of Plum Culture— A Thousand Acres Planted 



Within Three Years 207 



General Observations on the Flora of Hokkaido 211 



RootHairs 213 



EDITORIAL NOTES : 



Parks in Boston — Anemone nemorosa — How Mare- 

 chal Niel Rose Grows — Gun-barrel Budding — Impor- 

 tance of Forests — Andromeda arborea 199-200 



Odontoglossum cirrhosum — Kalmias for Winter 



Blooming — Money Value of Orchids 204-205 



Imperfect Reports — The English Sparrow — Fighting 

 the Codling Moth— Snyder Raspberry— The Wealthy 

 Apple — The Art of Making Wine— Versailles Cur- 

 rant — Plum Culture in Ohio — Chickory Salads— The 



Plum and Cherry Knot 208-210 



Peach and Apricot Hybrids — ' Nuts for the Scientific 

 to Crack' — Callirhoe involucrata— Seeds from Male 



Plants of Aucubas. 214 



Laws for Nurserymen — Advisory Committee of the 



Bureau of Horticulture of the Centennial — Linnsea 

 borealis — .\bout Hybrids — Hoopes' Book of Ever- 

 greens—The Grape Phylloxera — Sale of the Rose- 

 dale Nurseries — Test of a Good Gardoiier — Geological 

 ."Purvey of Texas— Transactions of the Massachusetts 

 Horticultural Society for 1876— Report of the Ameri- 

 can Pomological Society — Mr. Rand's Book on Or- 

 chids — Flora of California — Guide to the Pacific 

 Coast— D. D. T. Moore— New Plants— Mr. W. T. 



H.irdinR 215-219' 



Flora at the Outennial — International Exhibition — 

 Poraolocical Reports — The International Jury upon 

 Miscellaneous Fruits — Massachusetts Horticultural 

 Society 219-224 



NEW PLANTS: 



New Double White Clematis — Fritillaria pudica— 



Fritillaria recurva 200 



Cheilanthes fragrans — Phormium Colensoi variega- 



tum — Corynostylis hybanthus albiflora 205 



N.VTURAL HISTORY AND .SCIENCE 211-215 



LITERATURE, TRAVELS AND PERSONAL NOTES.. 215-21'> 



HORTICULTURAL SOCIETIES 219-224 



QUERIES: 



Diseased Branches on Oaks and Maples — D.iuble 



White Doutzia crenata 200-201 



Sun Ray FueWia— Nymphsea cu?rulea 205 



Fire Blight in the Pear— Pear Disease— Pear Trers 

 and Underdraining — Vanilla Culture — Peach Yellows 



—Polygonum amphibium for Tanners 210-211 



Insects, both Night and Day Flyers— Fertilization of 

 Lilies— Grass from Geneseo, 111 215 



