The Gardener's Monthly 



AND HORTICULTURIST, 



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CONTENTS OF THE JANU.^RY NUMBER. 



SEASONABLE HINTS: 



Flower Garden and Pleasure Ground 1-2 



Greenhouse and House Gardening T-S 



CORRESPONDENCE : 



The iClimbing Hydrangea 8 



The Climbing Hydrangea — Schizophragma Hydran- 



geoides 2--3 



Gardens and Gardening in Austin, Texas 3-4 



The Retinosporas -4-5 



A Model Greenhouse E.stablishment 8-9 



Lady Gardeners in Pittsburgh....; 10 



Fern Growing 10 



Grapes and Plants 14-15 



Strawberry Blight 1-5-10 



Better Fruits on Old Pear Trees lG-17 



Some Notes on the Apple Crop of Western New York.. 17 

 An Examjjle of the success of an Orchard under Grass 



Culture. 17 



European Larch 21-22 



Potato Growth Extra 2-5-27 



Ascent of Pike's Peak 28-29 



6th Annual State Fair of Colorado 31-32 



EDITORIAL N(JTES: 



Fushias and Ivy — .Tapan Bulbs— The Plane as a Street 



Tree — Memorial Trees 5 



Honors to a Florist— The White Flowered Oleander — 

 Senecio scandens— Eucharis Amazonica — Improved 

 Fire-bars — Heating by Lamps — Rose Cuttings Struck 



in Heat with the Leaves left on 10-12 



A Large Raspberry Garden — Forest Rose Strawberry 

 — A Large Apple Tree — Forcing Strawberries under 

 Glass — The Gregg Raspberry — ^The Thwack Raspberry 

 — Currants in California— Good Pennsylvania Apples 

 — Good Wisconsin Apples — California Grapes — The 

 €haumontelle Pear — \>getable Wax — Oranges and 

 Lemons in California— SleoijerV Dwarf Peach — Japan 



Persimmons — The Sexe.^ of Strawberries 18-19 



State Foresters — The Blue (iuin— The Lumber Trade 

 in the Ea.st— The White Pine— Felling Tress— Growth 

 of Trees in America — Catalpa bignonoides speeiosa... 22-24 

 Climate of Iowa — Richardsouia .<eabra,a New Weed in 

 the South — Botany at Dayton, Ohio — Insectivorous 

 Plants — Catalpa bignonoides speeiosa 27 



Cure for the Florida Ant Pest — Among the Heathen — 

 Henry T. Darlington — Mr. J. H. Klippart— Thomas 

 Wood, Sr. — Discussions on Horticultural Education in 

 Michigan — The California Horticulturist — Bulletin 

 L' Association des Instituteurs de la Zone Commuale 

 De Valcongrainpourl'Enseigement, &c.,la Propagande 

 Agricoles et Horticoles, Caen, France — Penn Monthly 

 — The Popular Science Monthly — The Botanical Ga- 

 zette — The Amateurs Hand-book of Practical Informa- 

 tion for the Workshop and Laboratory — Diospyros 

 Kaki — How to Destroy Insects- House Plans for Every- 

 body — How to Read — The Deterifiration of the Soils 



of Ohio — Nursery of P. J. Breckraan, Augusta, Ga 29-31 



New York Horticultural Societies — Western New York 

 Horticultural Society — Pennsylvania Fruit Grower's 

 Society — Horticultural Societies Notices of Meetings — 



The Kentucky Horticultural Society 32 



NEW OR RARE PLANTS: 



Puskinias — Dwarf Pampas Grass — Rose Jules Chretien 

 Magnolia Stella — Improving the Christmas Rose— Sin- 

 gle Dahlias .5-6 



Geranium Ethel Beale — Bowiea volubilis — Cuphea 

 Roezli — Adiantum palmatuni 12-14 



NEW OR RARE FRUITS : 



Moore's Early Grape — Idesia polyearpa as a Fruit — 



Prince of Wales Plum 19-20 



SCRAPS AND QUERIES : 



Bedding Planrs at Hollywood — Erianthus Ravennrte — 



Lawns ; , 6-7 



Mealy Bug '. 14 



Yellows in the Peach Tree — Prickly Comfrey— New 

 Raspberries— Standard Currants and Goosebi-rrie.s- . 



Dividing Currant Bushes 20-21 



Price of R. R. Sleepers— Larch Timber 24-25 



Andromeda arborea — Prinos veriieillaia — Do Tree 



Trunks Klongate?. 27-28 



FLOWER GARDEN AND PLEASURE GROUND 1-7 



GREEN HOUSE AND HOUSE GARDENING 7-14 



FRUIT AND VEGETABLE GARDENING 14-21 



FORESTRY 21-2-5 



NATURAL HISTORY AND .SCIENCE 2-5-28 



LITERATURE, TRAVELS AND PERSONAL NOTES 28-31 



HORTICULTURAL SOCIETIFJ^. 31-32 



