The Gardener's Monthly 



AND HOKTICULTUEIST, 



EDITED BY THOMAS MEEHAN, 



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CONTENTS OF THE JUNE NUMBER. 



SEASONABLE HINTS: 



Flower Garden and Pleasure (iround Itil 



Fruit and Vegetable Gardening 173-174 



CORRESPONDENCE: 



Spring Flower Gardening 162 



Varieties among Red Maples 162 



Annual and Biennial Flowers 1(12-163 j 



Notes on some Garden Trees and Slirul)s 16:!-16-1 j 



Rhododendron Culture 164 ' 



TheBonSilene Rose 166-167 \ 



Odontoglossum Rosii and Cattleya Citrina 1()7 \ 



Boilers. Ki" \ 



About Roses. 1G7-I(;s 



Veltheimia ViridiHora 168 



The Philodendron 168-I6'.( 



A Large Heliotrope 169 



The Japan Persimmon. I'i-l") 



The Brandywine aod Pearl Raspberries — Are they 



Identical? 17o 



Pear Trees 176 



Remarks on a Few New and Old Fruits 176 



Hardiness of the .Japan Persimmon 176 



How I was Ruined liy a Gooseberry 176-177 



Peach Culture 177 



Large Trees on Long Island 181-183 



Are Plants Fed through their Leaves? 184-185 i 



Experiments in Cross-breeding Plants of the same 



Variety. 185-187 ' 



Notes and Queries 189-190 



Distinguishing Varieties for Protective Laws 190 



EDITORIAL NOTES: 



The Tulip Tree — Hardiness of Rocky Mountain 

 Evergreens — Hardiness of the Firs — Carbolic Acid 

 and Weeds — The Virginian Creeper In Europe^ 



Carpet Bedding with Hardy Plants 164-165 



Cinerarias from Seed — Orchid Importing — Abutilon 



Darwini — History of the Chinese Primrose 169-170 



Making Gardens Pay — Adaptation to Circumstances 

 — Productive Strawberries — The Glendale Strawberry 

 — A Strawberry Prot^tor — The Jueunda Strawberry 

 — Fruit Troubles — Fruits of Michigan — Le Conte 

 Pear — Origin of the Beurre Gitfard Pear — American 

 Apples in England — Peaclies in Delaware — History 

 of Delaware Peach Growing — Sparrows and lioo.se- 

 berrv Bushes — The Siiowflake Potato — Earlv Peaches 



— Fine Plum Orchard — Grafting Wax 



Forestry in Japan — Forest Fires — European (jrowlh 

 of the Douglas Spruce— The English Oak in California 

 — A Large Tulip Tree — A Large Eucalyptus — Pecan 

 Nut Hickory — Duration of Larch Timber — Timber 



Planting in Massachusetts 



Fruiting of Wistaria sinensis — Atmos](heric Cur- 

 rents — Botanic Garden Arrangements — Derivatimi 



of Sequoia — The Smallest Orchid Known. 



A Rare Chance for Fine Orchids — Sam'l 8. Board- 

 man — George Ilusmaun — Entomologist to the J de- 

 partment of Agriculture — Franz Klaboch — Prof. 

 Ifeichenbach — Transactions of the Massachusetts 

 Horticultural Society, Part II, 1878— Report of the 

 Fruit Growers' As.sociation of the Province of On- 

 tario, 1878 



American Pomological Society — The J'ennsylvania 

 Horticultural Society — The Fourth Annual Meeting 

 of the American Association 



NEW OR RARE PLANTS: 



Oynerium jubatum — Salvia farinosa. 



Xephrolepis davallioides furcans— A Yellow Lobelia 

 — Rose, Queen of Bedders — Rose, Hybrid Perpetual, 

 10. V. Teas— A/.alea, (Jueen of India — Begonia prisma- 

 tocarpa — New Camelias 



SCRAPS AND QUERIES: 



Pruning Evergreen Hedges— Pinus pungeus and Pi- 

 nusBanksiana — Acermacrophyllum — Making a new 



Leader to Evergreens— Magnolia Soulangeana 



Mesembriauthemum — Abutilons— Beautiful Roses — 

 Cyclamens in one year- Ru.st on Gloxinias— Seedling 



Petunas 



Hardiness of the Japan Persimmon — Disease in 

 Strawberries — A Wonderful Head of Lettuce— The 



Water Apple— Disease in Grape Vines 



The Fuchsia Illustration * 



FLOWER GARDEN AND PLEASURE GROUND 



GREEN HOUSE AND HOUSE GARDENING 



FRUIT AND VEGETABLE GARDENING 



FORESTRY * 



NATURAL HISTORY' AND SCIENCE 



LITERATURE, TRAVELS AND PERSONAL NOTES., 

 HORTICULTURAL SOCIETIES 



180-181 

 191 



161-166 

 166-173 

 173-181 

 181-184 

 184-189 

 189-192 

 . 192 



