The Gardener's Monthly 



AND HOKTICULTUEIST, 



EDITED BY THOMAS MEEHAN, 



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CONTENTS OF THE JULY NUMBER. 



SEASONABLE HINTS: 



Flower Garden and Pleasure Ground 193-194 



Fruit and Vegetable Gardening 204-205 



COKRESPONDENCE : 



How to Treat Evergreens 194 



Caragana Arborecens 194 



The Arrangement of Lawns 194-196 



Bottom Heat 198-199 



About Potting 199-200 



Asparagus 205 



Forcing Strawberries 205-20fi 



Hardiness of the Japan Persimmon 206 



Carnivorous Plants 211-212 



Thornless Honey Locust 212 



Fertilization by Bees 212 



Of Snakes .Swallowing their Young 212-213 



The Grape Phylloxera 21.3-114 



A I'orraic Duel 214 



Notes and Queries — No. 2 216-217 



Are Plants Fed Through tlieir Leaves? 217 



The Wild Flowers of South Carolina 218 



Mysteries of the Mail Bags 21.8-219 



. Notes About Trees ; 219-220 



EDITORIAL NOTES: 



The Red Maple — Additional Notes on the Tree Al- 

 phabet — Prunus triloba — The Double Chinese 

 Cherry — fropagating Mistletoe— A Late Magnolia — 



European Bedding Plants— The Deutzias 196-19,S 



Darlingtonia Californica — Ammonia for Flowers — 

 Perennial Mignonette— Daphnes for Window Cul- 

 ture—Popular Bouquet Flowers 200-201 



Cracking of the Pear— Very Early Peaches— Large 

 Strawberries — Fruit of the Japan Persimmon- 

 Peaches in New Hampshire 206-207 



Timber Growing in the West— Catalpa Timber— The 

 Tulip and Cucumber Trees in Kansas — Arboricultu- 

 ral Lectures — Forest Fires — Soiind Timber — The 

 "Tender" Catalpa atMuscatine—Arboricultural The- 

 ology — The California Walnut — Sequoia giganlea — 

 The Blue Gum in California — The English Walnut 

 in California — Our Future Timber Supply — Black 



Walnut; Important to the Cabinet Trade 208-211 



Preserving the Natural Colors of Flowers — Chinese 



Botanical and H'lrtioultural Literature— The Effects 

 of Drought on Plants — Annual Orchids— Salt Lake 



and Tree Planting 214-21.5 



Editorial Traveling Notes — Horticultural Law — New 

 Plants— A Seedling Plant— The Pitury Plant— The 

 Southern States of North America— Maine State 

 Pomological Society — Flowers and Ferns of the 

 United States — A Popular California Flora — Dicken's 

 Dictionary of London — Moore's Rural Life — Mr. J. 



T. Lovett 220-223 



Ndrth Texas Poniulogical Society for 1879-80 — Essays 

 and Discussions at Horticultural Meetings — Penn- 

 sylvania Horticultural Society— Pi eniiuius at .State 

 Fairs 22.3-224 



NEW OR RARE PLANTS: 



Double Flowered Ivy-leaved Pelargoniums — New 

 Abu ti Ions — (lloxiniacrassifolagranditiora — Drarsena 

 elegantissima 201-202 



SCRAPS AND QUERIES: 



Gloxinia Disease — Agapanthus umbellatus — Abuti- 

 lon Darwini — Variegated Aloe — Blooming of Win- 

 dow Flowers — Seedling Geraniums 202-203 



Injury from Seventeen-year Locust — The Rockling- 



ton Grape — Peach Yellows in Michigan 207 



William Penn and Forestry— Sowing Timber Trees 



Destruction of Forests 211 



Sweet Scented Galium— Saxifraga Pennsylvanica— 



Phenomenal Growth — Talinum teretifoliuni 215-216 



Collecting Orchids — The Fuchsia Illustrations— Let- 

 ter from Washington Territory— A Department of 

 "Notes and Queries" 223 



FLOWER GARDEN AND PLEA.SURE GROUND 19.3-198 



GREEN HOUSE AND HOUSE GARDENING 198-203 



FRUIT AND VEGETABLE GARDENING 204-207 



FORESTRY 208-211 



NATURAL HISTORY AND SCIENCE 211-216 



LITERATURE, TRAVELS AND PERSONAL NOTES.... 216-223 

 HORTICULTURAL SOCIETIES 223-224 



