The Gardener's Monthly 



AND HORTICULTURIST., 



EDITED BY THOMAS MEEHAN, 



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CONTENTS OF THE AUGUST NUMBER. 



SEASONABLE HINTS: 



Flower Garden and Pleasure Ground 225-231 



Green House and House Gardening 232-2S7 



Fruit and Vegetable Gardening 238-243 



CORRESPONDENCE : 



Landscape Gardening 



Destruction of the Rose Slug 



A Happy Home 



Lilies 



Curves 



Greenhouse Furnaces 



Mr. Sargent's Azalea Show 



Forcing Roses 



History of the Double Lobelia 



Onion and Seid Growing in California 



The Wild Goose Plum 



General Observations on ihe Flora of Hokkaido. 



Pear or Apple : which 1 



Palms of Southern California 



"Laws for Nurserymen.'' 



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EDITORIAL NOTES : 



Lilies — Rhododendrons and Rose."- — The Elm Slug — 



Lawn from Seed — Hemlock in Limestone Soi's 230 



Wall-flowers and Gilliflowers — Royal Patronage of 

 Cut Flowers — To Prevent Hyacinths having Short 



Stems 235-23C 



Roe's Seedling Gooseberry — Linseed Oil for Pear 

 Blight— The Peach Bird— The Early Peaches- Colo- 

 rado Cabbage 240-241 



The Elm Slug 216-247 



M. Louis Van Houltc — Horticultural Judges at the 

 Centennial — "Palms" on Palm Sunday— Belgium 



Honors Horticulturists — Forsythia splendens — Pro- 

 ceedings of the New Jersey Horticultural Socitty, 

 1876 — Minnesota.Sf ate Horticultural Society— Botany 

 of California — Fruit Growers' Association of On- 

 tario-Insects of the State of Missouri — Williams' 

 Pacific Tourist and Guide Across the Continent — 



Life Histories of Birds 248-253 



Horticulture at the Centennial 254-266 



NEW PLANTS: 



New Tea Rose, Dutchess of Edinbiigb 



New Double Zonale Pelargonium Wonderful. 



NEW FRUITS AND VEGETABLES: 



230 

 236 



Briggs' Red May Peach — The Hamner Peach — Cum- 

 berland Triumph .Strawberry — Durand'sGreat Amer- 

 ican Strawberry — Smith's President Lincoln Straw- 

 berry— Prouty's Strawberry — S'~uihern Red Thorn- 

 less Raspberry— The Earnhardt Cherry 241-242 



NATURAL HISTORY AND SCIENCE 244-247 



LITERATURE, TRAVELS AND PERSONAL NOTES.. 247 25» 

 HORTICULTURAL SOCIETIES 264-266 



QUERIES: 



Lilium Auratum 230 



Flowering of the Hoya Carnosr. — Killing the Mealy 



Pug 236 



Seedling Strawberry- Richland Plum- The Farly 

 Peaches— Cornelian Cherry— White Alpine Straw- 

 berry — Lerchee Nuts — Disease in Cabbage Plants.... 242-248 



Ccphalanthus Occidentalis 247 



Protection from Tree Thieves 253 



