The Gardener's Monthly 



AND HORTICULTURIST. 



EDITED BY THOMAS MEEHAN, 

 Asnsted by an able Corps of AMERICAN and FOlilCIGN CORRESPOXDENTS. 



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CONTENTS OF THE APRIL NUMBER. 



SEASONABLE HINTS: 



Flower Girden and Plea.«ure Ground. 

 Green House and House Gardening.... 

 Fruit and Vegetable Gardening 



97-1(2 

 ]( 13-1 OS 

 108-114 



CORRESPONDENCE: 



Postscript to Arlidp on R. I. Bent Gra^s 08 



Remontant Pinks (Carnation) 98 



Time to Prnn<» Shrubs, and other Hints 100 



Orange and Leninn Trees aud Geraniums 103 



CoalTar lO'i 



Heating with Hot Water. lOfi 



A Visit 10 Covent Garden 109 



A New Culture for Asparagus Ill 



The Growth ol tiie Cork Tree in the United Stales... 1 15 



The Root-Cap 119 



Potomac Fruit Growers — February Meeting — LJala 



Day 126 



EDITORIAL NOTES : 



Jasminum nudiflorum — The Live Oak (Quercus vi- 

 rens)— Garden Edgings — Abies Engelniannii— Schiz- 



OFtyliscoicinea 100-102 



Flcral Decorations at Tunbiidge Wells — Annuals for 



Bouquets lOG-107 



June Budding Peach Trees— The Lady A}>]>]i. — Kor- 

 eign Fruits in England — American Se'dling Pota- 

 to's — Two Sets of Roots to a Grajie Vim. — l-'o'C'd 

 Fruits aud Vegeiablef — The Early Olive Radish— 

 The Profiis of Orar ge Growing— The Big Rambo 



Apple— Liirge Enj,'lisb Pears 111-113 



The Cork Trei— The Pec can— Osage Orange Timber 

 —Hard Names— The English Maple— Kussiau Tim- 

 ber 118-119 



Typographica!- The Phylloxera— Sunken Forests... 120 



Horiicullure in New Orleans — .V FewSugge-lionson 

 Tree Planting — ''Subscriber" on Mu-hrcoms — Pro- 

 ceedings of the Western New York Hoiticultural 



Society — Transactions of the Mas.sachiisctts Horti- 

 cu tu ill Society Inr IST.i — Bad A'lviee and AV^rse 

 Consetiuencc.' — lieclalniiiiK Daniag ^s — The Garden — 

 Mr. Riiieit Deincker— Honpes Bros. & Thoniiis, 

 West Cbe.ster. Pa — Gould Nursery Co.. Beaver Dam, 

 Wisi on»in, AniiunI Catalogue of Greenhouse Plants 



—The Ev. rgreiii 121-125 



New York Iliirticiiltural Association — Minnesota 

 State Horticultural Society — Meeting ol American 

 Nurservmei — H rtienllural Dcfiartment oftheCen- 

 tennlal — AdniissiDU to the Centennia' — Il'ilel Rues 

 at the Ccntenni:'! — England and the Cenleiinial — 

 Fruits at the Centennial 127-123 



NEW PLANTS: 



RoiMUoya'^ou'tc-) — Delpbiniumnudicaulc — Brodltci 



Calil"riiiCi! — Spiroea |>altnata 102 



Macl»>\a Yedo-iisi> — New Variegated Lantana — 

 Othonna crassifolia— Begonia Froebeli 107 



NEW FRL'ITS AND VEGETABLES: 



Thwack Raspberry — The Sterling Strawberry 11$ 



FORE.STRY 115-lli> 



NATURAL HISTORY AND SCIENCE 119-121 



LITERATURE, TRAVELS AND PERSONAL NOTES.. 121 125 

 HORTICULTURAL SOCIETIES 12C-12J 



QUERIES: 



Cratcejus Pyaranlha Hedges 102 



Nanus of Plant!- — Maehiiu s lor Flower Putf — Flow- 

 fring olCombrelum grandifloruni — Variegalid l.an- 



taua 107-103 



Human Hair a> :iFrrtili7,er — Gas Linn — Hardy Mar- 

 ket I!aspbeir\ — Do Persimmons Change by 'ir.ilt- 



iny?— i^iafhSedliiifS 113-114 



Larih 'liiubei — While Cypress — Rate of Giowih in 



Hie Oalt -. 11!) 



Diervilla — Rocky Mountuin Silver Si)ruce, 121 



