The Gardener's Monthly 



AND HORTICULTURIST. 



EDITED BY THOMAS MEEHAN, 



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CONTENTS OF THE DECEMBER NUMBER. 



Seasonable Hints: 



Flower Garden and Pleasure Ground 



Green House and Mouse Gardening 



Fruit and Vegetable Gardening 



Correspondence : 



Hardy Herbaceous Plants for October . . . 



The Siberian Pea Tree 



Ailanthus Glandulosa 



Pot Drainage 



Croton Culture 



Gladioli for Win'.er 



Agave Xalapensis 



Violets 



Forcing Tender Roses 



Grapes at Boston 



Mrs. Pince's Muscat Grape 



The Winter Protection of Grape Vines . . 



The Sicilian Nut Tree 



Muskingum Pear 



The Plum Curculio 



June-Budding Peach Trees in Texas 



Views of Distant Lands 



Visit to CarroUton 



Forest Hill Cemetery, Utica, N. Y 



Potomac Fruit Growers 



Editorial Notes : 



Sciadopitys verlicillata — Cut-leaved Su- 

 mach — Hardiness of the Silver Thorn — 



The Gladiolus Disease 



Pritchardia fiiifera — Circulation of Hot 



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 357-365 

 365-368 



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355-356 



Water — The New Palm — Hydrangea 

 Thomas Hogg — RhyncDspermam jasmi- 



noides — Remedy for Ants 364 



Western Grapes — The Tomito Disease — 

 Disease in California Cherries — Lime and 



the Potato Beetle 368 



Rainfall and Forests — On the Diurnal 

 Opening of Flowers — Metallic Substances 



in Plants 369-370 



Typographical Eirors — The Valentine 

 Bean — Bay Tret — The Plum — Mr. C. M. 

 Hovey — The Confederate States — Geolog- 

 ical Survey of Indiana — Louisiana as it is. 374-376 



New Plants : 



Tulipa Greigi — Pentstemon heterophyllus 

 — Pentstemon Palmeri — Alonsoa linifolia 

 Alonsoa myrtifolia 356 



Natural History and Science 369-370 



Literature, Travels & Personal Notes. . 370-376 

 Horticultural Sucieties 376 



Queries : 



The Centennial Rock-work — Pyracantha 

 Hedges — Picea Parsonsiana — Names of 



Plants 356-357 



Lime for Cellar Floors— Heating a Cucum- 

 ber House — Sunray Fuchsia — Tar in Green- 

 houses Again 364-365 



