The GARDENER'S Monthly 



AND HORTICULTUEiST, 



EDITED BY THOMAS MEEHAN, 



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CONTENTS OF THE M.\RCH NUMBER. 



SEASONABLE HINTS: 



Flower Garden and Pleasure Ground 65-60 \ 



Greenhouse and House Gardening 71-73 



Fruit and Vegetable Gardening 77-78 



CORRESPONDENCE: 



Beech Hedges 66 j 



The Retinosp(>ras 60 \ 



The New Fa.stigiate Poplar 00-07 \ 



Arundo Conspicua 67 | 



Orchid Culture 73 \ 



Peter Henderson Carnation 73 i 



Rose Culture for Winter Blooming 73-74 , 



The Dewberry 78-79 ; 



Ants in Florida ; 79-80 i 



June Budding Peach Trees 80 



Prickly Com frey 80 



The Two Catalpas— A Memoir of theShavanon 82-84 



The Rose Bug 80-87 



Carnivorous Plants 87-89 



The Nurseries of Miller A Hayes 91 



EDITORIAL NOTES: 



Art in Arboriculture — Legacies for Tree I'lantiug — Ab- 

 surd Practices— Landscape Gardening 07-68 



Beautiful Fuchsias — Lantanas — Prices of Orchids — 

 Cra.ssula lactea — Rest and Labor — The Persian Cycla- 

 men — Striped Flowered Geraniums — Geranium Oil 75-76 



Peach Yellows — Bartle's American Dewberry — The 

 Downing Gooseberry^Grafting the PeaV on Apple 

 Stocks — Ohio Peach Crop — Ripening Grapes in the 

 Shade — Tomatoes in Winter — Dandelion Salad— Let- 

 tuce— The Apple Tree Borer— Olive Oil— Cold Graperies 80-81 

 Trees by Mail— Treatment of Catalpa Seedlings— Some- 

 thing done at Last — Early History of the -Catalpa 84-8.') 



A Probable New Darlinglonia — Absorption of W"ater 

 by Foliage — Insects and Coloretl Flowers — Dicentra or 

 Diclytra — C)onoph alius Titanum — The English Sparrow 



in Washington— Picea Macrocarpa 89-90 



Plant Protection — Low Prices — The Word Mignonette 

 — The Fairmount Park Commission — Mr. Geo. Cruk- 

 shanks— F. R. Elliott— Mr. John T. Lovett— Instructive 



Catalogues — Notes on the Ai)hida' of the United States, 

 by Chas. V. Riley and J. Monell— Nineteenth Report 

 of the Park Commission, Baltimore, Md. — Guides for 

 Science Teaching — Proceedings of the Montgomery Co., 

 O., Horticultural Society for 1878 — Report of thePenn- 

 sylvauia Fruit Growers' Society — Proceedings of the 

 Worcester Co., Mass., Horticultural Society for 1878 — 



The Royal Horticultural Society of London 



Tasle at Horticultural Exhibitions — Pennsylvania 

 Fruit Growers' Society — The New York Horticultural 

 Society — The Anicrican Poiiiologlcal Society 



NEW OR RARE PLANTS: 



New Hardy Trees and Shrubs 



SCRAPS AND Ql'ERIES: 



Hardiness of the Climbing Hydrangea — Ruccaglorio-^a 

 in Texas — Sophora speciosa — Planting in the Philadel- 

 phia Squares 



Cut Flowers — Name of Plant— Varieties of the Myrsi- 

 phyllum — Carnation Waverley — Camellia Pit — C<joI 

 House Orchids — Whale Oil Soap — Greenhouse Plants... 

 The Water Apple— Destruction of Peach Buds— The 

 Yellows in the Peach — Peach Budding — Doyenne Bous- 



sack Pear , 



Kentucky Collee Tree Tiral)er — Red and White Pines 



of Utah— Larch Timber 



Strawberry Aphides — Hardiness of the Pecan Hickory 

 — Pinus Torreyana — Honey Dew — Self-protection in 

 Plants ■ 



FLOWER GARDEN AND PLEASURE GROUND... 



76-77 



81-82 

 85-86 



GREEN HOUSE AND HOUSE GARDENING 



FRUIT AND VEGETABLE GARDENING. ". 



FORESTRY 



NATURAL HISTORY AND SCIENCE.... 



LITERATURE, TRAVELS AND PERSONAL NOTES 



HORTICULTURAL SOCIETIES 



On- 71 

 71-77 

 77-82 

 82-86 

 80-90 

 91-94 

 94-90 



