The Gardener's Monthly 



AND HOKTICULTUEIST, 



EDITED BY THOMAS MEEHAN, 



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CONTENTS OF THE NOVEMBER NUMBER. 



SEASONABLE HINTS: 



Flower Garden and Pleasure Ground 



Green House and House Gardening 



Fruil and Vegetable Gardening 



CORRESPONDENCE: 



The Cercidiphylliim 



Hardiness of Japan Maples 



Notes from New Hampshire 



Cats and Pear Trees 



Notes on the Season and Fruits in Western Pa 



Curl in the Peach 



The Rose Slug (Selandria Rosse, Harris) 



Remarkable Diflerences in the Climate of Places 



situated under the same Latitude 



Notes and Queries — No. 6. 



The Flora of the State of Texas. 



321-322 



326 



330-332 



322-323 



323 



382 



332 



332-334 



337-338 



339-340 



340 

 342-344 ; 

 344 



EDITORIAL NOTES: 



Decay of Central Park— The Laurel Hill Cedar of 

 Lebanon— Insects on Public Trees— Sunday Open- 

 ing of the Gardens of the Royal Horticultural Society 

 —Mutilating the Giant Trees of California— Magno- 

 lia grandiflora in the North— A Fine Elm— Our Na- 

 tive Flowers — The Lily Disease 323-325 



The Bedding at Fairmount Park— Orchids in the 

 Open Air— The Victoria Lily— The Gloxinia— Ste- 

 phanotis floribuuda— The Colored-leaved Caladiums 



— Ice Flowers. 326-328 



Pine Apples— Propagating Peach Trees— Price of 

 Grapes— The Phylloxera in California— Distinguish- 

 ing Fruits— Plum Culture in America— The Brigh- 

 ton Grape— Blackberries— The California Elder- 

 berry—Cutting out old Raspberry Canes— Peaches 

 in the West— Gathering Grapes— The Gregg Rasp- 

 berry— Curculio Proof Plums— The Thwack Rasp- 

 berry—The Gregg Raspberry— Raspberry, Queen of 

 the Market— The Lawrence Pear— The Codling 



Moth in Australia— Madame Granger Apple— Cran- 



; berry Culture— The St. Patrick Potato 334-335 



1 Full of Bugs— Abies menziesii— Picea and Abies 341 



Editorial Traveling Notes— Sorghum and Maize 

 Sugar— Political Economy— Good Gardeners— Papers 

 before the American Association — Microscopic 

 Fungi Infesting our Cereals— The Notes and Queries 

 — N. C. Meeker— The Native Flowers and Ferns of 

 the United States— Horticulture at the Centennial- 

 First Step in Chemical Principles— Report of the 

 Entomologists of the Department of Agriculture for 

 1878— Vegetarianism the Radical Cure for Intem- 

 perance 344-350 



California Horticultural Society— President Wilder's 

 Address. ;_ 350-352 



NEW OR RARE PLANTS : 



DracienaTaylori- DennstffidtiaDavallioidesYoungii 



— Gladiolus papilio — Iris Robinsoniana 328-330 



SCRAPS AND QUERIES : 



Variegated Arborvitte— Deutzia scabra— Blue Trum- 

 pet Tree 325 



Progressive Fruits— Statistics of Fruit Culture— 

 Blodgett's Miss Percival Peach— The " Jessie" Grape 

 —White-washing Trees— A New Plum— Seedling 



Grape— The Wager Peach 335-337 



Botanic Gardens— Coleus— The "Rural" Plant 341-342 



FLOWER GARDEN AND PLEASURE GROUND 321-325 



GREEN HOUSE AND HOUSE GARDENING 326-330 



FRUIT AND VEGETABLE GARDENING 330-337 



NATURAL HISTORY AND SCIENCE...' 337I342 



LITERATURE, TRAVELS AND PERSONAL NOTES... 342-350 

 HORTICULTURAL SOCIETIES 350-352 



