The Gardener's Monthly 



AND HOETICULTUEIST, 



EDITED BY THOMAS MEEHAN, 



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CONTENTS OF THE MAY NUMBER. 



SEASONABLE HINTS: 



Flower Garden and Pleasure Ground 129-1.30 



CORRESPONDENCE : 



A Living Tree Alphabet 1:^0 



Renewing Lost Leaders 131 



Pentstemons 131 



Yucca Gloriosa in Texas 131-132 



Garden Notes 132-133 



Propagating Rare Plants 134-135 



Notes from 1878 185-136 



Fine Cyclamens 136 



Floral Notes from Texas 136-138 



Sobralia Macarantlia 138 



The American Banner Rose 13S-139 



Habrothamnus Elegans 139 



Floral Progress 139-UO 



Christmas Orchids 140 



The Victoria Regia and Tropical Nymphseas in the f 



Open Air 140-142 



.June Budded Peach Trees 145 



Budding and after Treatment of the Peach 145-146 



Shelter for Orchards 146 



Grapes and Plants 146-147 



The New Grape Lady Washington 147 



Vernacular Kanies of Pacific Trees. 150 



Timber of Kentucky Coffee 150-151 



Our Forests 151-152 



A Few Magnificent Single Trees of California 153-155 



Dicentra or Diclytra 155 



Introduction of the Cereidiphyllum 155 



Of Practicable i-nd Impracticable Gardeners 157-158 



EDITORIAL NOTES: 



The Hardy Pitcher Plants — Double Native Anemones 

 — Androstephium violaceum — Lygodium scandens 

 — A Rose by any other Name will Smell as Sweet — 

 Value of the American Linden — Cultivating Na- 

 tive Flowers — The Iris — The Hollyhock Fungus— 

 NieremLergia rivurlaris — The Winter Aconiie. 133-134 



Insect Powder — Forcing Lily of the Valley — The 

 Store-plant House in Tower Grove Park, St. I^ouis 142 



Papaw as a Fruit— Fig Culture— Rare and Good 

 Pennsylvania Apples — The Tomato Disease— To- 

 bacco 147-149 



Common Names of Pacific Evergreens— The Profits 

 of Tree Planting- Imitation Walnut Wood— Tim- 

 ber Planting in Canada : 



Catalpa syringsefolia aurea — Fermentative Power of 

 the Papaw— Spanish Clover — The Winter on Ever- 

 * greens — Arrangements of Ai-boretums and Botanic 

 Gardens : 



Fairmount Park Commission — Ex-Mayor Henry — 

 Prof C. V. Riley— Mr. S. L. Board man— Fleur-tle- 

 lis — Ferns in their Homes and Ours— The Silk 

 Worm, and Instructions for Producing Silk — 

 Rhymes of Science — Animal Magnetism — Western 

 New York Horticultural Societ}' — Proceedings of 

 the Georgia State Horticultural Society — Farm 

 Implements and Farm Machines— Characete Ame- 

 rieanae- The Catalpa — Catalogue of the Davenport 

 llerVjarium of North American Ferns. 



Northern Texas Horticultural Society — Horticulture 

 in Cincinnati — American Pomological Society — 



Premiums for Fruit 



NEW OR RARE PLANTS : 



New Tea Ro-eiMadame Welch — Croton "Queoii Vic- 

 toria" — Double Zonale Geranium, Robert Buist — 



Agave Parryi. ; 



NEW OR RARE FRUITS; 



B-assett's American Plum — Highland Beauty Apple — 

 The Marshall Pear — Miner's Seedling Graiies — 

 llaskeir» Grapes — Rickett's Highland Grape — The 



Gibbon's Peach 



SCRAPS AND QUERIES: 



Destroying Wood Lice— Seedling Cyclamens— The. 

 Fuchsia Illustration — Carnation, Peter Henderson 

 — Names of Plants 



The Le Comte and the Sand Pear — Improved Dew- 

 berries — White Rosmarin Apple... 



Double Tbalictrum anemouoides — Sugar from Ash- 

 leaved Maple— Dicentra speetabilis 



William and John Bartram— A Book for Exotic 



Plants .''. 



FLOWER GARDEN AND PLEASURE GROUND 



i GREEN HOUSE AND HOUSE GARDENING... 



I FRUIT AND VEGETABLE GARDENING 



j FORESTRY 



NATURAt HISTORY AND SCIENCE. 



LITERATURE, TRAVELS AND PERSONAL NOTES.... 

 HORTICULTURAL SOCIETIES 



1.56-157 



159-160 

 129-134 

 134-144 

 145-150 

 150-153 

 153-157 

 157-160 

 160 



