The Gardener's Monthly 



AND HORTICULTURIST, 



EDITED BY THOMAS MEEHAN. 



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CONTENTS OF THE FEBRUARY NUMBER. 



SEASON ABLi: HINTS: 



flower Garden and Pleasure Groiiiirt 33 



Fruit and Vegetable Garden 48 



COMMUNICATIONS : 



Propagating Yuccas 11 



Some New Hoses of 1881 ."i 



Public Gardens of St. Louis '■'-'> 



Browallia as a Blue Bedder, ■','> 



Mr. Hunne well's Garden at Wellesley -i'' 



Blue Flowers for Massing " 37 



Notes from the West 37 



A Few Hints on the Chrysanthemum 38 



A Blue Bedding Plant. .' 38 



Cultivation of the Chrysanthemum 40 



Isotoma Longiflora " 41 



The Australian Glory Flower C'lianthus Dampieri 41 



Tricopilia Tortilis and T. Suavis 42 



Steam Heating 42 



The Oleander 4.{ 



Steam Heating 44 



Dendi'obium Cambridgeanum 44 



On the Culture of the Camellia 44 



Night-Opening Flowers 4o 



Roses for Ornamental Fiuit 45 



Dendrobium Cambridgeanum I '' 



Fruit Crop in Tennessee i' 



Forcing Strawberries in Pots jii 



Fruit Notes from England 5(* 



Fertilization of Kalmia .54 



Kalmia Poisonous to Sheep 54 



Night-Opening Flowers 54 



Notes ■')!' 



Under the Willows at Lichfield liii 



EDITORIAL NOTES : 



Kansas Products— Mild Weather— A New Tree 

 Label— Remedy for Bark Scale— Season and Pears 



— Pliylloxera Laws— Protection from Drouth 51-52 



Unexploreil Territory— Redwood Timber— Timber 

 of British Columbia— Forest Schools in the Old 

 World— Profits of Forestry— Rapiditj' of Growth in 



American Timber Trees 53 



Stomata— Academy of Natural Sciences of Phila- 

 delphia—How Trees Spread Over Cleared Land— 

 The University of Missouri— Flowers of a Fig— A 



Lucky Botanist— The Candle Tree— Sparrows in 

 Australia— Odor of Butterflies— Double Broods of 

 Insects— Movement in Roots— Flowers of South 



Carolina 5.5-57 



Horticultural Hall, Philadelphia— High-toned Pa- 

 pers—The Uncertainties of Expositions— Masde- 

 valleas— Col. M. P. Wilder— The "American Nat- 

 uralist"— The American Farmer— Transactions of 

 the Massachusetts Horticultural Society for 1881— 

 Bacteria— Bacteria— Art Museums and their Uses 

 —Sheldon's Dairy Farming— The Flower— Lines 



on a head of Cabbage Cl-61 



NEW OR RARE PLANTS AND FRUITS : 



New Alternanthera Aurea— Dwarf Double Gerani- 

 ums-New Dahlia " Juarezii "— New Dwarf Sweet 

 Chestnut— Improvement of the Common Garden 



Marigold 39-40 



Jasminum Gracillimum— Cyrtodeira Metalica— Be- 

 gonia Schmidtii ' 47 



SCRAPS AND QUERIES : 



The Diamond Tuberose— The Drop Worm— Hardi- 

 ness of Rose Reine Marie Henriette 4o 



Shy Flowering Plants— Violet Rubra Plena— An- 

 thurium crystallinum— Harris" Lilium longiflorum 



—Double Red Bouvardia — 47-48 



Grapes for a Cold Grapery— Culture of the Quince 52 

 Fruiting of the Maiden Hair Tree— Evolution of 

 Heat in Plants— Bananas from Seed— Cambridge 



Botanical Gardens— Coco Grass 58-59 



Paw-paw, Michigan—" Ozone " for Curing Meat. . . 64 



FLOWER GARDEN AND PLEASURE GROUND 33-40 



GREENHOUSE AND HOUSE GARDENING 40-48 



FRUIT AND VEGETABLE GARDEN^NG 48-^ 



FORESTRY 53 



NATURAL HISTORY AND SCIENCE 54-59 



LITERATURE. TRAVELS <fe PERSONAL NOTES. 59-64 



