The Gardener's Monthly 



AND HOKTICULTUEIST, 



EDITED BY THOMAS MEEHAN, 



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CONTENTS OF THE OCTOBER NUMBER. 



SEASONABLE HINTS: 



Flower Garden and Pleasure Ground., 

 Green House and House Gardening.... 

 Fruit and Vegetable Gardening 



COERESPONDENCE : 



Bural Cemetei'ies 



The Climbing Hydrangea 



A Fine Weeping Beech 



Viburnum Nudum 



Tuberous-Rooted Begonias 



Night Blooming Cereus 



Aquatic Plants 



Stenocarpus Cunninghamii 



Absorption of Moisture through the Leaves. 



The Japan Persimmon again 



Budding the Wild Plum 



Forcing Strawberries 



Sladkaja Apple ." 



Improved Asparagus 



Sex in Asparagus 



A Destructive Remedy 



The Self-fertilization of Plants 



Abnormal Flowers 



The Flora of the State of Texas 



Habits of Fuller's Rose Beetle 



Notes and Queries 



What Mr. Wier has not Done 



289-290 



295 



299-300 



290-291 



291 



291 



191-192 



295-296 



296-297 



297 



297-298 



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300 



300-301 



801 



301 



301-302 



302 



302 



306-307 



307-308 



308-309 



310-311 



312-314 



314 



EDITORIAL NOTES: 



A New Stock for Roses — The Boston Public Garden — 

 Vanilla Trees — Gardening at Salt Lake City — Vibur- 

 num plicatum — Memorial Trees — Grounds of the 



Lehigh University — Single Tuberoses 



New Coleus — Rondoletia anomala — Lantana, Hark- 



ett's Perfection .-. 



Pearl Millet — Peaches in New England — St. Michael 



d'Archange Pear— Three Good Early Grapes — Pro- 

 gressive Developments among New Fruits 302-303 



Legislation and Foresty — Fibre Machinery — The 



Profits of Forestry 305-306 



A Census of Cambridge Botanical Garden — Picea 



PuDgens — The Ostrich Fern 311-312 



Editorial Traveling Notes — Uninteresting New Jer- 

 sey— Thanks— Bela Hubbard— Daniel Barker— Fern 



Etchings— The North American Entomologist 314-317 



Pennsylvania Horticultural Society — Horticultural 

 Exhibit at the Pennsylvania State Agricultural So- 

 ciety — American Pomological Society 318-.320 



SCRAPS AND QUERIES: 



Roses, Geraniums, etc. — American Trees in Boston- 

 Purchasing Roses— Tuberose Seed— Two Good Bed- 

 ding Tea Roses — Memorial Trees 293-294 



Double Zonale Geranium, Mrs. Corbin — Treatmentof 



an India Rubber Tree— Cornelian Cherry 298-299 



Grapes in North Carolina — Mr, Churchman's Rasp- 

 berries—A Productive Strawberry — The Lacon 

 Strawberry — Japan Persimmon— Fungus in Apple 

 Roots — Pear Blight — Green Potatoes for Seed- 

 Celery Disease— Benoni and Early Joe Apples 303-304 



292-293 

 298 



FLOWER GARDEN AND PLEASURE GROUND 289-294 



GREEN HOUSE AND HOUSE GARDENING 295-299 



FRUIT AND VEGETABLE GARDENING 299-304 



FORESTRY 305-306 



NATURAL HISTORY AND SCIENCE ' 306-312 



LITERATURE, TRAVELS AND PERSONAL NOTES... 312-317 



HORTICULTURAL SOCIETIES 317-320 



