The Gardener's Monthly 



AND HOETICULTURIST, 



EDITED BY THOMAS MEEHAN, 



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CONTENTS OF THE SEPTEMBER NUMBER. 



SEASONABLE HINTS: 



Flower Garden and Pleasure Ground 257-258 



Green House and House Gardening... 261 



Fruit and Vegetable Gardening... 267-268 



CORRE.SPONDENCE : 



Gardening in the South 258-259 



Defensive Hedges 259-260 



Notes on Palms 261-263 



Cultivation of Cape Heaths 263-264 



Coleus Pictus 264 



Hybrid Perpetual Roses— Twelve Best for Forcing... 261-265 



Japanese Persimmons 268-269 



Fruit Notes from Indiana 269 



Hardiness of Japan Persimmon 269-270 



Effects of Frost on Plants, &c 273-275 



Carnivorous Plants 275-276 



Leaf Absorption 276 



Gift der Scheeze a Schanse.... 276 



Snakes Swallowing Their Young 276-277 



About the Hardiness of Trees 277 



Responses and Notes ; 279-280 



Notes and Queries — No. 4 280-282 



Notes and Queries 282 



Notes ^ 282 



EDITORIAL NOTES: 



Beautiful Hardy Flowers — Live Fence Posts — Pau- 

 lownia imperialis— Landscape Gardening— Public 

 Parks and Gardens — Scarcity of Trees and Shrubs 

 in England — Mimulus for Fountain Decorations — 



Growing Specialties 260 



Gloxinias— Flowers at English Weddings— Flowers 



on Toilettes ;. 265-266 



The Crescent Seedling Strawberry— The Cuthbert 

 Raspberry— Tomatoes— Forced Fruit at Newport, 

 R. I.— Early Grapes— Pests of California Fruit (irow- 

 ers— The Coffee Tree— New Peaches— Codling Moth 

 in California — Chinchona Tree— The Salmon Berry, 

 Rubus nutkaensis — Captain Jack Strawberry — Wil- 

 son's Albany Strawberry — Pear Growing on the 

 Prairies— The Best Strawberry- Book (iardening— 



Osage Orange Hedges— Early Tomatoes— Testimony 

 on the Sparrows— A Sad Fate— The Profit of Culti- 

 vation 270-272 



Bees and Passion Flowers — Origin of Wheat — The 

 Doctrine of Morphology — Growth of Roots in Au- 

 tumn and Winter 277-278 



Editorial Traveling Notes — The Post Office Laws — 

 Agricultural Editor of Philadelphia Press — The 

 Plant Patent — Sedum Acre — Scrubs and Spires — 

 Lily Emblems — The Bulb Season — Hon. Eli K. Price 

 — Glasnevin Botanic Gardens — Col. Wilder — Geo- 

 logical Survey of Indiana — Revision of the North 

 American Liliacese — Native Plants of Victoria — A 

 Year in a Lancashire Garden — Gardening Illus- 

 trated—The Value of Absence 282-286 



Georgia Horticultural Society — The Pennsylvania 

 Horticultural Society — American Institute— Ameri- 

 can Pomological Society — The Pennsylvania State 

 Agricultural Society — National Agricultural Con- 

 gress — The Western Michigan Agricultural and In- 

 dustrial Society — American Pomological Society 287-288 



NEW OR RARE PLANTS : 



Panax laciniatus — Hyacinthuscanidicans — A striped 

 Forget-me-not 266-267 



SCRAPS AND QUERIES: 



Dalmatian Insect Powder — Pr.opagating Double 



Petunias 267 



The Japan Persimmon — The Hornet Raspberry — 

 Bower's Early Peach — Alpine Strawberries — Origin 

 of Early Joe and Benoni Apples — Peaches from 

 Paine.sville.Ohio — Waterloo Peach — Raspberry from 

 Burlington, N. J. — Fruit Notes from Mercer Co., Pa. 272-275 

 Poverty in Science — Plurals of Plant Names — Mor- 

 phology of a Peach Flower — Fruiting of the Arctos- 

 taphylos Uva-ursi, or Beart»erry 278-279 



FLOWER GARDEN AND PLE.\SURE GROUND 257-260 



GREEN HOUSE AND HOUSE GARDENING 261-267 



FRUIT AND VEGETABLE GARDENING 267-273 



NATURAL HISTORY AND SCIENCE 273-279 



LITERATURE, TRAVELS AND PERSONAL NOTES.... 279-286 

 HORTICULTURAL SOCIETIES 287-288 



