The Gardener's Monthly 



AND HORTICULTURIST, 



EDITED BY THOMAS MEEHAN, 



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CONTENTS OF THE APRIL NUMBER. 



seasonable HINTS: 



Flower Garden and Pleasure Ground 97-98 



Green House and House Gardening 103 



Fruit and Vegetable Gardening 108-110 



CORRESPONDENCE : 



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Anemones 98-99 



Skill as Displayed in Gardening 99-100 



Rose Culture for Winter Blooming 103-104 



Hot Water Boilers 104-106 



Heating by Lamps 106 



Grape Rot and its Prevention 110-111 



A Remedy for the Strawberry Louse 111-112 



Large Trees of Connecticut 114-115 



The European Larch in Massachusetts 115 



Carnivorous Plants 117-118 



" 119-120 



Mr. Henderson's Experiments 120-121 



Sciadopitys and other Japan Plants 121 



Notes from Washington Territory 121-122 scraps AND QUERIES: 



Mountains — A Wisconsin Tree — Pinus lidulis 11.5-117 



The Aramingus Beetle — Corn Smut — Cheat in Cali- 

 fornia — Potatoes Inside of Potatoes — Preserving 

 Flowers in l^alt Water— Diclytra and Dicentra — 



Names of Plants 122-12S 



Wrong Names to Plants — The Adams Express Com- 

 pany — An Awful Warning — Fern Pillars — Progress 

 of Horticulture — Stephen Hoyt — Andrew M. Eastwick ■ 

 — Ehrenberg — Mr. James Taplin — Mr. Mansfield Mil- 

 ton — Honors to a Horticulturist— Kentucky Horti- 

 cultural Society Proceedings — Flowei's and Ferns of 

 the United States — The Art of Propagation — Floi-a of 

 the Miami Valley, Ohio — Forest Tree Culture on 

 Kansas Prairies — How We Saved the Old Farm— The 



Season 1 2.5-127 



The American Pomological Society — Massachu.setts 

 Horticultural Societv— Mr. .Tames (ruickshanks.... 



128 



NEW OR RARE PLANTS: 



Geranium Esther Lee — A New Race of Fuchsia-s — 

 Torenia Bailloni — The American Banner Tea Rose... 



Vindication of the Plant Patent 12:^-124 



Fraudulent Practices 124-125 



EDITORIAL NOTES: 



Landscape Cenifteries — Japanese Autumn .Scenery 

 —Parks as Educational Institutions— Epping Forest 



—Bananas as Summer Bedding plants 100-102 



Variegated Orange Tree — Insects on Roses — Orchids 



lor Room Culture 10<i-107 | 



.Mushroom Culture — A 'Sawdust Pudding — Trick of 

 the Trade — The Yellows Law — Asparagus in theSmitli 112-ll:{ 

 Uefore.station— Trees for Fire Wood — The Pine Tim- 

 ber of California — Ises of American Timber Trees — 

 Ikixwood — Papaw Bark — Ited S|.ruce of the R-cky 



Fringed Gentian — Varegated Honeysuckle — Celestrus 



Scandcns — Propagating Clemati.ses, etc 102 



( ireenhou.se Location — Pelargonium, New Life — Forc- 

 ing Roses 107-108 



.Tapan Persimmon in New York — Kieffer's Hybrid 

 Pear— The Cabbage Worm 11:m14 



FLOWER GARDEN AND PLEASURE GROUND 97-102 



GREEN HOUSE AND HOUSE GARDENING 103-108 



FRUIT AND VEGETABLE GARDENING. 108-114 



FORESTRY 114-117 



NATURAL HISTORY AND SCIENCE 117-123 



LITERATURE, TRAVELS AND PERSONAL NOTES.... 123-127 

 HORTICULTURAL SOCIETII-* 128 



