The Gardener's Monthly 



AND HOKTICULTURIST, 



EDITED BY THOMAS MEEHAN, 



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CONTENTS OF THE 



SEASONABLE HINTS: 



Flower Garden and Pleasure Ground 353-354 



Green House and House Gardening 358 



CORRESPONDENCE : 



The Ligustrum 354 



Notes on Hyacinthus Candicans 3.54 



Lilium Humboldtii and Lilium Parryi 354-355 



Hints on the Cultivation of Choice Gloxinias 359-360 



Paris Green on Strawberries 361-362 



Black Rust on Verbenas 365-366 



Curious Fungi 366-367 



An Abnormal Snap Dragon 367 



Eupatorium •. 367 



Pencilings from Colorado. 367-368 



Summer Appje Blossoms 368 



The Common Caladium Wild in Florida 368 



Notes and Queries, No. 7 370-371 



Notes and Responses 371-372 



Disgraceful Public Parks 373 



The Flora of the State of Texas 373-374 



EDITORIAL NOTES: 



Viburnum Plicatum — Dwarf (atalpa — Hybrid Co- 

 lumbine — Andromeda arborea — Ampelopsis Veitchii 

 — Adelaide Botanic Garden — The Virginian Creeper. 35.5-357 

 Torenia Bailloni — Cape Plants — Tuberoses— Eupa- 

 torium triste 360-361 



(Jibson's Late Peach— The Pocklington Ciraj-e — The 

 .Jefferson (irape — California Pears — Graves' Peach — 



Water Supplies 362-363 



Picea firma and Picea bifido — Fibre of the Velvet 



DECEMBER NUMBER. 



Leaf— (iarberia — Morphology of Pine Flowers — 



Fruit Drying by Cold Blast 369 



Our Colored Plate — Ohio State Horticultural Society 

 — Transactions of the Massachusetts Horticultural 

 Society — The Hygienic Prevention of Zymotic Di- 

 seases — Dairy Farming— Report of the Progress and 

 Condition of the Royal (hardens at Kew, for the Year 

 1878 — General Index to the Reports of the Patent 

 Office and Agricultural Department from 18.37 to 1876 

 — The American Naturalist for November — How to 

 Select Cows on the (Juenon System — The Rural New 

 Yorker — Nurseries of Hoopes Bro. and Thomas, 

 West Chester, Pa. — The Contributor — Seedless Per- 

 simmons 374-376 



The American Pomological .Society — Massachusetts 



Horticultural Society. 377-378 



SCRAPS AND QUERIES: 



Various Queries — Rose Madame Oswald de Ker- 

 chove — Slijiping of Earth from Side Hills — New 



Cockscomb 357-358 



Artificial Fertilizers — Mr. Black's Plum — Those 

 Copyrighted (.'berries — Hothouse (irapes — Late 



Peaches 36.3-364 



Forest Hill Cemeteiy — A (Jardener's Privilege. :376-377 



FLOWER GARDEN AND PLEASURE GROUND 353-358 



GREEN HOUSE AND HOUSE GARDENING 358-361 



FRUIT AND VEGETABLE GARDENING 361-364 



NATURAL HISTORY AND SCIENCE 365-369 



LITERATURE, TRAVELS AND PERSONAL NOTES... 370-377 

 HORTICULTURAL SOCIETIES 377-378 



