The Gardener's Monthly 



AND HORTICULTURIST, 



EDITED BY THOMAS MEEHAN, 



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CONTENTS OF THE FEBRUARY NUMBER. 



SEASONABLE HINTS: 



Flower Garden and Pleasure Ground :!:j-:i4 



Greenhouse and Hou.se Gardening -W 



Fruit and Vegetable Gardening 44-4-) 



CORRESPONDENCE : 



Hydrangea Paniculata ?yi-iVi 



Cultivation of the Rose 3o-:j() 



Beech Hedges ^iC 



The CliTnl)ing Euonymus "jG 



Hot Water Heating 39-40 



Eucharis Grandittora 41-42 



Remarks on the Production of Grapes 4.)-i7 



Cure for Texan Ants 47 



Shelter in Orchards 47 



On the New Variety of Catalpa t 48-49 



A Catalpa Tree near Philadelphia SO , 



Precocious Forest Trees -"O 



History of Sciadopitys, and other Japan Trees o:}-.')4 



The Climbing Hydrangea 54 , 



Carnivorous Plants .54-5.5 



Additional Notes of Andromeda Arborea 5.5-56 j 



Early History of the Catalpa 56 i 



Carnivorous Plants 56-57 



Peculiar Formation of Roots in a Paper Mulberry 57 



The English Sparrow .57 



Forest Fires in Washington Territory 57-58 



.EDITORIAL NOTES: ' 



A curious White Pine Tree— Curious Pine Tree in 

 Japan — Training Trees and Shrubs — Destruction of 



Trees in Cities by Gas at the Roots 36-37 



Cinerarias — Making Flowers for Exhibition — Dahlia 



Imperialis — How to make Moss Baskets 42-43 



TheCook Apple— Peach and tlie Plum— Peach Yellows 

 inCanada — TheSpotled Clover — The Profits of Oranges 47 

 — Disease in the Norway Si)ruce — Measuring Trees- 

 Squirrels and Larch Trees — The Large Plane Tree — 

 Christmas Trees— Boxwood— The Big Trees of Califor- 

 nia— The White Oak in Maryland 50-52 



Natural History and Science— Influence of the Scion 

 on the Stock — Leaves and Petioles^Uranine — Prinos 

 verticillata— Cupre-ssus McNabiana.. .58-60 



American Knowledge in Europe — About Credits to Ex- 

 changes — Grafting Gooseberries and Currants — Har- 

 vard Botanic (iardens — Mrs. Almira Lincoln Phelps — 

 Mr. F.W.I'oppey— :Mr. De Niednaan— Col. Edward Wil- 

 kins — Mr. Alfred Bridgcman — A Generous French- 

 woman — Hon. -Morton McMiehael — An Address on 

 Forestry — The Parks and Gardens of Paris — Chart of 

 the Age of Domestic Animals— The Tem])eraments — 

 Ij. B. Case's Botanical Index— Rejiort of the Mass. 

 Hort. Society lor 1877— Landretb's Rural Register — 

 The Illustrated Annual of Rural Affairs for 1879 60-(U 



NEW OR RARE PLANTS : 



Areca purpurea — Ja])an Primrose— Sweet Violet, The 

 White Czar— Habranthus 4:5-44 



NEW OR RARE FRUITS AND VEGETABLES: 



New Fruits for 1879— Kiotter's Hybrid Jai)an Pear — 

 Tlie Telephone Tea— Round Rooted Chine.«e Yam 4S 



SCRAPS AND QUERIES: 



Rhododendron Culture — Protecting a Leading Shoot 

 of Pine — Rhododendrons in Massachusetts — -Lawson 

 Cypress — Ampelopsis Viechii — The Kentucky Cottee 



Tree 37 



Wall Flower — Seedling Carnation 44 



Peaches at Christmas — Highland Beauty Apple — June 



Budding Peach Trees 48 



Sumac for Tanning — The Great Growth of the Willow 

 — Thornless Honey liOcust — The Eucalyptus in Cali- 

 fornia — American Grown European Larch .52-53 



Blue Grass 60 



A Swindle 64 



FLOWER GARDEN AND PLEASURE GROUND 3.3-37 



CiREEN HOUSE AND HOUSE GARDENING .38-44 



FRUIT AND VEGETABLE GARDENING .' 44-4S 



FORESTRY ". 48-53 



NATURAL HISTORY AND SCIENCE 5.3-60 



LITERATURE, TRAVELS AND PERSONAL NOTES 60-64 



HORTICULTURAL SOCIETIEJS. 64 



