The Gardener's Monthly 



AND HORTICULTURIST. 



EDITED BY THOMAS MEEHAN, 



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CONTENTS OF THE NOVEMBER NUMBER. 



SEASONABLE HINTS: 



Flower G'^rden and Pleasure Ground 



Green House and House Gardening 



Fruit and Vegetable Gardening 



CORRESPONDENCE : 



The Culture of Pitcher Plants 



Grafted Rose Acacia 



Our Centennial Magnolia Tree 



Liatris Pycnostachya 



Verbena Rust 



Rhododendrons under Glass 



Notes on New Fruits 



Blodgett's Seedling Peaches 



Notes From Tennessee 



Fruit in Michigan 



New Grapes 



The Strawberry Grub 



American Arboretums 



Triteleia Laxa; — or Seubertia Laxa ; — Which? 



Brodiaea Coccinea 



Rain-fall and the Lakes 



EDITORIAL NOTES : 



Akebia quinata— Wier's Cm-leaved Silver Maple— 

 Euonymus Americanus — Weigela amabilib Looy- 

 mansi aurea — On Naming Flowers for Persons — 



White Bedding Pansies 



Drying White Flowers— Standard Cupheas — A Gera- 

 nium Pyramid 



Analysis of the Onion — American Grapes in Europe 

 — Influence of the Stock on Pe»rs — Carter's Round- 

 leaved Batavian endive. Earth-blanching — Thefek- 

 bank Bunch of Grapes — Pruning Fruit Trees in 



Japan - 



Meehan's .\rboretum at the Centennial Grounds — 

 History of the Catalpa— The Catalpa Timber — The 

 Locust Tree Slug — The German Forests — Tree- 



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Planting 



Vernacular Names — How Error is Propagated — Trop- 

 ical Flora at the Poles — Vitality of Seed— Course o( 

 the Sap — The Warfare of Plants on one Another — 

 Adaptation to the Environment— The Self-Fertiliza- 



tion of Plants.. 



The Thwack Raspberry— Postal Laws— The Garden- 

 er's Monthly — Criticism — The Tomato — Miller & 

 Sievers— The Early History of the Vine and Pome- 

 granate— W. Forsyth— I. E. Ilgenfritz— Col. Wilder 

 — .\iiierlc 'n Tuberoses — Sir Joseph Banks— Worces- 

 ter Co, (Mass.,) Horticultural Society— The New 

 South — Ohio State Hort. Society— Twelfth Annual 



Catalogue, Michigan State Agricultural College 



The Centennial 



NEW PLANTS: 



Double-flowered Liliuin auratum — Euonymus fla- 

 vescens — Pellsea ornithopus — Mr. Lee's New Violet. 

 Prince Consort — Bambusa argentea striata — Stange- 

 ria schizodon- arnebiaechioides — fialactites tomen- 

 tosa — New Golden Poplar 



FORESTRY 



NATURAL HISTORY AND SCIENCE 



LITERATURE, TRAVELS AND PERSONAL NOTES- 

 HORTICULTURAL SOCIETIES 



QUERIES: 



Rose, Tea Duchess of Edinburg— Gladiolus Brench- 

 leyensis- Comparative value of Bronze Bedding Ger- 

 aniums " • 



Fire Blight in the Pear— Elvira Grape- Fruiting of 

 Pyrus Japonica— Moth in a Grapery -The Earliest 

 Peach— Brighton Grape— Japan Persimmon-.^ New 



Grape — California Onion Seed 



Seeds Two Thousand Years Old Growing— Orthog- 

 raphy of I^otauical Names 



Ohio Fruit at the Centennial 



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