The Gardener's Monthly 



AND HORTICULTURIST, 



EDITED BY THOMAS MEEHAN. 



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CONTENTS OF THE JANUARY NUMBER. 



SEASONABLE HINTS : 



Flower Garden and Pleasure Ground. 

 Greenhouse and House Gardening. . , 



COMMUNICATIONS 



Rarer Ornamental Trees and Ornamental Gardening , 



M r. Hunneweirs Garden at Welle^ley, Mass 



Ipomsei Grandiflora , 



Bermuda Grass 



The Cincinnati Floral Company's Establishment 



A Hothouse Alirm to Guard Against Frost or Great Heat 



Tar Water for Ins-cf; 



Plum Stocks for Peach Trees 



Plum Stocks for the Peach 



The Truth as Applied to Tree Agents 



Science Notes 



Notes and Queries — No. 30 



Horticultural Exhibitions 



EDITORIAL NOTES : 



Golden Plums Arbor Vitse — .\n Avenue of Cryplomeria 

 Japonica — History of th^ M inetti Res';— Railway Gar- 

 dening — Fine Chrysinthemum-; — The Cactus D..hlia— 



Florida Jute 



Growth of Plants by Electric Light— S ck Trees and 

 Flowers— Tuberous Rooted Begonia?— Choos ng Hya- 

 cinths—A Rcyal Bouquet 



Stealing from Gardens — Shippers and Growers — Painted 

 Labels — Bad News for Tcbacco Raisers— Glout Morceau 

 Pear — Bees and Grapes — ' urine the Yellows in the 

 Peach — Improved Grant erries — New Varieties of Fruit — 

 Wearing Out of Soil— Peach YtUows — Henderson on 



De usions— The KeifFer Pear 



Timber is King— Protection to Forestry — Protection of 

 Forests a Necessity — Lumber in Virginia — A Large 



White Oak— Waters of Like Ontario— Forest Fires 



Work for NaturalHistory Clubs— Calochortus— Hygienic 

 Value of Jussieua grandiflira — Torch Lilies— Malarial 

 Fever — Flowering of BermudaGrass— Introduction of the 

 Camellia — An Almond Grow ng from a Peach — Local 



Names of Plants — Cambridge Botanic Garden 



Our Correspondents — The Phylloxera in France— Horti- 

 culture— Laws Against Weeds — Diamond Tuberose — 

 Law of Branches Overhanging Neighbors — Areca Baueri 

 — Ancient Ploughing — Schol .rly Wiiiing — Southern Nur- 

 series — T. R. Tnimpey— Jamt£ Markey, the Celebrated 



j6-n 

 19-20 



Potter— A. S. Fuller— M. J. Donnelly— The Botanical 

 Index — The Flowers and Ferns of the United States — 

 Proceedings of ths Georgia State Horticultural Society — 

 American Newspaper Annual for 1881 — A Practical 

 Treatise on Tree Culture in South Australia — Plants i-f 

 Indiana — Indian Corn — General Index to the Nine Re- 

 ports on the Insecis of Missouri — A Glimpse at Michigan 

 Horticulture— The Hessian Fly— The Wild Garden— 



The New Botany 25-3^ 



Pennsylvania State Horticultural. 'Society — 'late Horticul- 

 tural Societies — Horticultural Exhibitions — Essays at 

 Horticultural Meetings 32 



SCRAPS AND QUERIES: 



Injured Bark— A Blue Bedding Plant 8 



Euharis Amazonica — New Coleus — Medinilla magniiica 

 — Odontoglossum Cervantesii— Begonia Schmidtii— Seed- 

 ling Co'.euses 12-14 



Progress in Rasp'ierry Culture— Winter Nelis Pear — Gros 



Colman Grape — Japan Persimmon 18 



Autumn Flowers of the Berkshire Hills— White Ctdar— 

 Early Weeping Willows in America— Twin Apple — 



Bracts and Leaves 22 



Various Quest ions 3° 



NEW OR RARE PLANTS AND FRUITS: 



Fine Winter Flowering Carnations— Cymbidiura ebur- 



Tomato, President Garfield— Peach, Dyer's June— Ruby 

 Currant— The Two Sisters Pear 18 



FLOWER GARDEN AND PLEASURE GROUND... 



GREENHOUSE AND HOUSE GARDENING 



FRUIT AND VEGETABLE GARDENING 



FORESTRY 



NATURAL HISTORY AND SCIENCE 



LITERATURE, TRAVELS AND PERSONAL NOTES. 

 HORTICULTURAL SOCIETIES 



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