The Gardener's Monthly 



AND HORTICULTURIST. 



EDITED BY THOMAS MEEHAN, 



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CONTENTS OF THE MAY NUMBER. 



SEASONABLE HINTS: 



Flower Garden and Pleasure Ground 129-134 



Green House and House Gardening 134-1.'J9 



Fruit and Vegetable Gardening 1,39-I4G 



CORRESPONDENCE : 



Disease in Violet Roots 130 



Evergreens — Rhododendron Arboreum 131 



Heating Small Greenhouses 135 



136 

 140 

 141 

 116 

 149 

 157 

 158 



Peerless Rose 



Mushrooms — Bilyeu's Comet Peach 



Training Gooseberries 



The Cork Oak in West Virginia 



Trees of Southern Florida 



South-Eastern Kansas Horticultural Society 



Northern Iowa Horticultural Society 



EDITORIAL NOTES : 



Pleasing the Gardeners — Grasses for Indiana — Names 



of Varieties — Weeping Hemlock Spruce 132 



Eupatorium ligustrinum — The Richardia (Calla) 

 JSthiopica — Preserving Cut Flowers — Name of Plant 

 Plant-selling at Amherst College — The Plant House 

 at the Agricultural College — Royal Bouquets — Flower 

 Pots — Forced Deutzia gracilis — Fuchsias — Standard 

 Pyracanthas-A Hint to Table Decorators— Poinsettia 136-13^ 

 Peach Growing — Mexican Ever-bearing Strawberry 

 Peach Raising in Mississippi — New Apples — Classifi- 

 cation of th ■ Apple 142-145 



Timber of Delaware^Tree-planting in Massachusetts 

 — Sub-hardy Eucalyptus — Dogwood Charcoal — Origin 

 of Sericulture — An Argument for Tree-planting 



Rapid Growth of Timber Trees in Massachusetts 147-149 



Twin Jtushrooins — A New Agricultu'al Grass — Os- 

 mundia Ciunamomea — Motion of Tendrils — Ozone — 

 Growth of Plants as aU'ected by Latitude — Cause and 



Effect— Pronunciation of Botanical Names 151-152 



Letter from the Late Hon. .T. ('. Calhoun of South 

 Carolina — Our early Botanists-"Rincaton," Indiana — 

 Common Names of Plants — To the " Manor Born" — 



Box in Washington's Garden— Exploration in Japan 

 — Postal Laws on Seeds and Plants— Artificial Heat 

 in Horliculture— TheTirst English Nursery— Mr. 

 Charles Darwin — Miscellaneous Publications — The 

 Language of Flowers— First Book of Zoology— The 

 Shepherd's Manual — The American Lawn — Forest 

 Culture in Minnesota— An Egg Farm — Manual of 

 Small Fruits— Phonetic Magazine — The Boston Culti- 

 vator — Farmer's Home Journal — Reveu de L'Horti 



culture Beige 154-157 



The Great Centennial— Stated Displays — Dr. Warder 

 — Fruits and Lodging at the Centennial — Interna- 

 tional Exhibition — Strawberries at the Centennial — 

 Maryland Horticultural S iciety — Attractions at Hor- 

 ticultural Societies — Royal Horticultural Society of 



of London 159-160 



NEW PLANTS: 



Lilium Parkmani — Ligustrum coriaceum — Zinnia 

 Darwlnl — The Purple-leaved Maple — Pancratium ro- 



tatum 132-133 



NEW FRUITS AND VEGETABLES: 



Pitmaston Duchess Pear — Alexander Peach — Briggs' 

 Red May Peach— The Wealthy Apple Tree— The 



Norman .Strawberry 145 



FORESTRY 146-149 



NATURAL HISTORY' AND SCIENCE 140-154 



LITERATURE, TRAVELS AND PERSONAL NOTES.. 154-157 



HORTICULTURAL SOCIETIES 157-160 



QUERIES: 



Insect Injury to the Elm — Failure of Camellias in 

 Florida — Failure of Piuonias — New Double Deutzia — 



Y'cllow Violet 133-134 



Wi rk on Greenhouse Culture — Scale on Oleanders — 



Niphetos Tea Rose for Cutting 138-139 



Sterling Strawberry — The Pear Slug — Fruit Prospects 



in Kentucky 145-146 



Poison-vine — Rocky Mountain Silver Spruce — Ver- 

 bena Rust — Fertilization of Clover 152-154 



