The Gardener's Monthly 



AND HORTICULTURIST. 



EDITED BY THOMAS MEEHAN, 



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CONTENTS OF THE OCTOBER NUMBER. 



SEASONABLE HINTS: 



Flower Garden and Pleasure Ground 289-295 



Green House and House Gardening 295-301 



Fruit and Vegetable Gardening 3ni-3ij5 



CX)RRESPONDENCE: 



Landscape Gardeners 



Rhododendrons 



Kills and Cures in the Garden 



Hardy Herbaceous Plants for August 



Destruction of Greenhouse Plants by Gas 



Echeverias for Bedding 



Has the Pear a New Enemy 



On Graft Hybrid? 



Notes on the American Grape Vine Mildew 



The Sour and Sweet Apple 



Fruit Variations 



Prairie Flowers 



Laws for Nurserymen 



Let us Profit by the Expo.sition 



Charles Read on Flowers 



International Horticultural Exhibition, in 1877, at 



Amsterdam, in the Palace of Industry 



Potomac Fruit Growers 



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 290 

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 296 

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 302 

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EDITORIAL NOTES : 



Public Parks— Patents for New Plants and Fruits — 

 Silver-thorn and Pyracantha Hedges — Flowering of 

 the Paulownia in England — American Foliage in 



Europe 293-294 



Seeding of Aracaurea excelsa — Winter-flowering 

 Carnations and Bouvardias — Bouvardia — Tuberoses 

 in Midwinter — Euphorbia jacquineeflora — Astilbe — 



A Vase of Simple Flowers 297-301 



The Thwack Raspberry — Orchards in Gr» s — Or- 



I chard of Godfrey ZimniermaD — Wild Goose Plum — 



I Peasgood's Nonsuch Apple — Dr. Boynton's Pear 



Orchard—TheApideCropin Massachusetts— Another 



Wild Goose 



j The American Forestry Association 



Poisoning by Laburnum — Trees, Rain-fall and the 

 Lakes — Age of the Mammoth Trees — C' coanutPalm 

 Patents for Plants and Fruits- The Judas Tree— 

 The Font Grove Greenhouses— Roses in Ancient 

 Festivals — Monument to M. Louis Van Houttc — 

 Fourth Annual Report of the Kansas State Board of 

 Agriculture— Transactions of the Wisconsin State 

 Horticultural Societj — Orchids— Botanical Party.... 

 The Centennial Exposition — The Pennsylvania Hor- 

 ticultural Society— Roots, Bulbs and Tubers at the 



Centennial 



NEW PLANTS: 



Liatris pycnostachya— Hybrid Pentstemons— Re- 

 tinosporoleptoclada — Asperulacdorata — Hydrangea, 

 "Thomas Hogg." -Viburnum plicatuni— New Trees 

 —A New Hardy Tree, Cedrela sinensis— Quercus 



Anderson! 



New Ampelopsls— Croton Weisinanni 



FORESTRY 



NATURAL HISTORY AND SCIENCE 



LITERATURE, TRAVELS AND PERSONAL NOTES.. 

 HORTICULTURAL SOCIETIES 



QUERIES: 



Keeping Large Lahtanas— Browallia data — Mig- 

 nonette 



Classification of Fruits— Forcing Rhubarb— The 



Richland Plum— Summer Hagloe 



Classification of the Minute Fungi 



Habits of Van Houtte 



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 305-306 



310-311 



314-315 



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 305-306 

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 316-320 



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