The Gardener's Monthly 



AND HORTICULTURIST., 



EDITED BY THOMAS MEEHAN, 



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CONTENTS OF THE SEPTEMBER NUMBER. 



SEASONABLE HINTS : 



Flower Garden and Pleasure Ground 2.57-263 



Green House and House Gardening 263-2fiS 



Fruit and Vegetable Gardening 268-274 



CORRESPONDENCE : 



Centennial Rhododendrons 



Mr. Hovey's Arboretum Americanum 



The Rhododendron and American Yew 



Rhododendrons 



Hardy Rhododendrons 



Hardy Herbaceous Plants for July 



Remedy for Verbena Rust 



Pittosporum Tobira 



Culture of Primula Sinensis 



The Standard Currants and Gooseberries 



Linseed Oil for Scale 



Classification of Fruits 



Prairie Flowers 



General Observations on the Flora of Hokkaido 



Ring Forming Fungus 



Trietelia Laxa 



Eccentricity in Wood Growth ; 



Notes upon the Grounds of Smith & Powell, Syra- 

 cuse, N. Y 



Observations in Northern Texas 



Massachusetts Horticultural Society 



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EDITORIAL NOTES : 



Public Adornments of Cities — The Rhododendron — 



Liatris pycnostichya 262-263 



Bouquets of the Philadelphia Belles— Violets for 

 Winter Blooming— Cut Flowers— Chrysanthemums 



after Flowering— Soft-wooded Greenhouse Plants.... 265-266 

 Nectarine Produced from a Peach — Raspberry from 

 Mr. Roc — The Amsden Peach — The Alexander 

 Peach — Manure and Strawberry Insects — A Straw- 

 berry Grower at Boulder, Colorado 272-273 



Seeding of the Trailing Arbutus— Mite Parasites of 



the Colorado Potato Beetle— The Bermuda Grass 279-280 



The Postal Laws as aflecting Horticulture — Flower 

 Thieves— Physalis edulis— The Lemon Verbena- 

 Visitors to Kew Gardens— Landscape Gardening — 

 Exchanges of Seeds and Plants— Colored Plates— 



The Florist and Pomologist 283-28* 



Horticulture at the Centennial— New York Horti- 

 cultural Association— The Nurserymen and Tree 

 Growers — Pomology at the Centennial 285-288 



NEW PLANTS: 



Rudgea macrophylla— Pink Marechal Niel Rose— 

 The New Double Flowering Ivy-leaved Pelargonium 

 — Croton undulalus -Antliuriumcrystallinum 266-268 



NEW FRUITS AND VEGETABLES: 



Hame's Apple— Maryland Early Peach 273-274 



NATURAL HISTORY AND SCIENCE 274-28* 



LITERATURE, TRAVELS AND PERSONAL NOTES.. 280-284 

 HORTICULTURAL SOCIETIES 284-288 



QUERIES: 



Protection of Tea Roses in Winter 



Hybrid Ferns — Sun-ray Fuchsia 



Freezing of the Sap of Plants- Populus Canescena, 



Ait — Wes'ern Tannin Plant 



Corrections in the article on Curves 



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