The GARDENER'S Monthly 



AND HORTICULTURIST, 



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CONTENTS OF THE AUGUST NUMBER. 



seasonable HINTS: 



Flower Garden and Pleasure Ground 225-226 



Green House and House Gardening 229-230 



Fruit and Vegetable Gardening 2.35-2.36 



CORRESPONDENCE : 



Protection to Trees 226 



Management of Lawns 226-227 



Abutilons— Species and Varieties 230-281 



Noxious Insects 231 



Asparagus Culture 236 



Asparagus— Try for Better Kinds from Seed 237 



Japan Persimmon 237 



Inarching Grape Vines 237 



Remedy for the Colorado Beetle 237-238 



Forest Culture '. 240-241 



Objects of Sex in Flowers 242-243 



Are Plants Fed through their Leaves? 243-244 



Plant Leaves and their Functions, Respiration and 



Exhalation 244-243 



The Flora of the State of Texas 245-246 



Notes and Queries— No. 3 248-249 



Responses 250 



Notes of a Southern Cemetery 250-251 



A Legal Query 251 



EDITORIAL NOTES: 



Encouragement for Roses— Lilium Parkmanni- Hy- 

 brid Aquilegias— Boston Public Grounds— Care of 

 Gardens— American Sweet Scented Violet— Forsylhia 



suspensa — Sedum acer aureum as a Carpet Plant 227 



Washingtonia filifera— Increasing Love for Flowers 



— Chinese Primroses 231-232 



' Benoni Apple— The Rebecca Grape— Cherry Bigar- 

 reau de Lyon— Disease in Raspberries— Vagaries of 

 the Past Winter— The Hornet Raspberry— Hothouse 

 Grapes— Grub in the Vegetable Garden— Sexes of 

 Asparagus— Utah Seedling Apples— Fox's California 

 Seedling Pears— Preserving Grapes till April— .Tu- 

 eunda Strawberries— Pears for the English Market 



— Japan Persimmon in England 238-239 



Annual Rate of Growth in Trees— White Cedar- 

 White Pine Leaves 241-242 



The Sleepy-Plant— The Seasons in New York— Men 



with Tails — Pranks in a Pear — Beautiful Botanical 

 Gardens — A Poisonous Plant— Agriculture in Print 



—The Most Northern Plant— Botanical Studies 247-248 



Editorial Traveling Notes — Post Office Laws— A 

 Grand Old Horticulturist— Hon. Chas. A. Dana— 

 The Poverty of Prof. Louis Agassiz — Baron Ferdi- 

 nand Von Mueller— Professor Asa Gray— Rotten 

 Fruit— Report of the U. S. Geographical Surveys— Re- 

 port of the Connecticut State Board of Agriculture 

 for 1878— Noel Humphreys— Dr. David Moore— Silas 

 Moore— Dr. Karl Koch — Aquariums— Orange Judd 

 Company Catalogue of Rural Books— Adam Spade, 



the Gardener— Quinby's New Bee Keeping.. 251-256 



Georgia State Horticultural Society— The American 

 Association of Nurserymen 256 



NEW OR RARE PLANTS: 



Begonia Roezlii— Ranunculus Lyallii — Lopezia corOT 

 nata — Livistonia Australis — Cissus Endresii— Xan- 

 thisma texanum— Raspberry-leaved Pelargoniums... 232-234 



NEW OR RARE FRUITS : 



A New Raspberry— The Garden Strawberry— Beck- 



en's Prolific Strawberry. 



239 



SCRAPS AND QUERIES: 



Curious Dwarf Rose— Japan Maples— Insects on Elm 

 Trees — Injury to Trees — Notes on Garden Plants — 



The Best Time to Transplant Trees 227-229 



Echeverias — Stag's Horn Fern— Dalmatian Insect 

 Powder— Plants for Back Walls of Greenhouses 234-235 



FLOWER GARDEN AND PLEASURE GROUND 225-229 



GREEN HOUSE AND HOUSE GARDENING 229-235 



FRUIT AND VEGETABLE GARDENING 235-239 



FORESTRY 240-242 



NATURAL HISTORY AND SCIENCE 242-248 



LITERATURE, TRAVELS AND PERSONAL NOTES.... 248-256 

 HORTICULTURAL SOCIETIES 256 



