The Gardeners Monthly 



AND HORTICULTUEIST, 



EDITED BY THOMAS MEEHAN. 



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CONTENTS OF THE MARCH NUMBER. 



SEASONABLE HINTS - 



Flower Garden and Pleasure Ground. 

 Fruit and Vegetatole Garden 



COMMUNICATIONS : 



Mr. Hunnewell's Garden at Wellesley 



A Blue Flowering Bedding Plant 



Ageratum 



Florist Flowers 



Coelogyne Cristata 



Clerodendron 



Coelogyne Cristata 



Greenhouses Heated by Steam 



Coelogyne Cristata 



Pruning Fruit Trees 



Fig Culture at the Nortli 



Culture of the Teasel 



The Bacteria Theory 



The Influence of Electric Light on Plants. 



Fremontia Califomica, and a Howl 



The Wild Garden 



Prof. C. V. RUey and the Yucca Moth 



EDITORIAL NOTES : 



Ornamental Rhubarb— Pilea repens— Ornamental 

 Grasses — Crataegus arborescens— Arnold Arborfe- 



tum— Rare Trees in Germantown 



Rogiera gratisima— Steam Heating— Libornia Pen- 

 rhoseana— Cut Flowers in Paris— Stephanotis flori- 

 bunda— Aealypha marginata — Buttonhole Bou- 

 quets—Chrysanthemums—Cut Flowers in Eastern 



Cities— Red Berries in Winter Pot Plants 



SowingSeeds— Coal Tar— Hothouse Grapes— Plum, 

 Bassett— Raspberries in the North— The Earliest 

 Peach— Raspberry, Shaffer's Colossal— Bees and 

 Fruit— Very Hardy Apples— Apple, Rome Beauty 

 —Can Fruit Trees be Over-fed ?— Phylloxera— Flat 

 Culture in Potato Growing— Sponge Growing— The 

 Blackman Plum— Linseed Oil as a Remedy for 



Scale— Gros Colmar Grape 



School of Forestry— Cottonwood in Kansas— Joa.- 

 quin Miller on Forestry— Timber on the Pacific 

 Coast— Elms of Ohio— Forestry Meeting— Honey 



Locust Timber— Ailanthus Timber— Spruce Gum 



—Locust Shingles 



Coco Grass— The Past Season in California— Sec- 

 tion of the Mammoth Tree of California— North 

 American Lichens— The Winter in France— Des- 

 modium penduliflorum— Pritchardia grandis— The 

 Rain Tree— The Cla'n ;se Varnish Tree— Arctic 

 Coniferte— A Sweet Orchid— Influence of the Stock 



on the Graft — Manipulated Wines 



Legend of the Cornelia Cook Rose— Flora of Aus- 

 tralia—Pennsylvania Fruit Growers' Society- 

 Michigan Horticultural Society— Disappearance of 

 a Gardener— W. O'Brien— The Florist and Pomo- 

 logist— Produce of French Vineyards— General In- 

 i j dex and Supplement to the Nine Reports on the 

 ^ ' Insects of Missouri— Report of the Royal Gardens 

 g^^ ' for 1880— Bulletin of the United States Geological 

 and Geographical Survey of the Territories— An- 

 nual Report of the Chief Signal OfiBcer of the 

 I Army to the Secretary of War— Horticulture of 



jj_ „^ ! Boston and Vicinity 



NEW OR RARE PLANTS AND FRUITS : 

 ! A Double Dahlia— President Garfield Zonale Ger- 

 anium—Improved Chinese Primroses— A White 

 ! Heliotrope— Steam Heating— Asparagus plumosus 



73_74 ; — Ixora splendida 



I SCRAPS AND QUERIES : 



I Hardy Cypripediums— A Fine Ohio Thorn— Winter 



Flowers in Texas 



Asparagus Plumosus — Begonia Schmidtii 



Levy's Late or Winter 'Peach— A Kne Peach 



FLOWER GARDEN AND PLEASURE GROUND 



GREENHOUSE AND HOUSE GARDENING 



80-82 FRUIT AND VEGETABLE GARDENING 



FORESTRY • • 



NATURAL HISTORY AND SCIENCE 



1 LITERATURE, TRAVELS & PERSONAL NOTES. 



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