The Gardeners Monthly 



AND HOETICULTURIST, 



EDITED BY THOMAS MEEHAN. 



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CONTENTS OF THE APRIL NUMBER. 



SEASONABLE HINTS : 



Flower Garden and Pleasure Ground. 

 Fruit and "Vegetable Garden 



COMMUNICATIONS : 



Public Squares of Philadelphia 



A Blue Bedder 



Novelties 



The Rose-Growing Craze 



Steam-Heating 



Hinze's Red and White Carnations 



Hot Water Boilers 



Odontoglossum Cervantesii and Trichopilia Saavis. 



Luculia Gratissima 



Cultivation of Eucharis 



Medinilla Magnifica 



Glazing 



Raising Chinese Chrysanthemums from Seed 



Heating by Steam and Water Combined 



A Cheap Plant Stand 



Medinilla Magnifica 



Rhyncospermum Jasminoides 



Cirrhopetalum Medusae 



Small Greenhouses 



Plum Stocks for Peach Trees 



How I Grow Celery 



Yellows and Peach Culture 



The Gros Colmar Grape 



Petite Marguerite Pear 



A Curative and Preventative for Thrip on Grapes. . 



Japan Persimmons as Tub Plants 



Bentley's Sweet Apple 



Japanese Persimmons 



Longevity of Apple Trees 



Winter Nelis Pear 



AUanthusasa Timber Tree 



WUd Garden 



Poisoning by Kalmia 



Pawpaw 



EDITORIAL NOTES : 1 



Blood-leaved Trees— Cercidophyllum Japonicum ! 

 — Schizophragma hydrangeoides — The Largest 

 Norfolk Island Pine— Improvement of Agricultu- 

 ral Grounds 100-101 



Justiciacalycotricha—Dinner-Table Decoration.. 108-109 ' 

 Catching the Codling Moth with Sweets— Birds I 



and the Gardener— Silk Culture— Choice Grapes i 



—Newtown Pippin Apple— Burdock Roots—The 

 Ritaston Pippin Apple— Profitable Peaches— The 

 Baldwin Apple — Over-cropping — Subsoiling — 

 Lemon Trees— Remedy for the Currant Worm — 

 Value of Worms— Raspberry, Reder- The Ameri- 

 can Wonder Pea— Strawberries in Michigan- 

 Mulberries for Chickens 115-116 



New Work on Forestry— Timber in Virginia- 

 Timber Planting along Railroad Lines— American 

 Forestry Association— Timber duration in Iowa- 

 Timber Culture in Australia— United States Tim- 

 ber Laws 117-118 



Arum Family— Wright's Sycamore— Geographical 

 Range of the Lily— -Properties of the Cola Nut— 



Pinus Arizonica 121-122 



United States Seed Distribution— Delayed Com- 

 munications— Specialtists— Sunday School Work 

 —Sensitiveness of Trade— Flowers in Egyptian 

 Tombs— A Lover of Trees— Leichardt, the Lost 

 Australian Explorer— Dominy the Orchid Raiser 

 —Art and Science— James Vick— Australian Ex- 

 plorer—Thomas Potts James— The Lost Florist— 

 Our Winged Friends— Pennsylvania State Agri- 

 cultural Report for 1881— Fruit Growers' Associar- 

 tion of Ontario, Report for 1881— Mulberries- 

 Michigan State Horticultual Society 124-128 



SCRAPS AND QUERIES : 



Trees and Shrubs for the Seaside 101-102 



Steam Heating— Steam Heating— Camellia Bud 



Dropping : 109 



Coco Grass, Johnson Grass, Means Grass, Cuba 

 Grass, Guinea Grass— Old Trees— Botany in Cali- 

 fornia—The Australian Bottle Tree— Absorption 

 of Metallic Poison by the Roots of plants— Frost 



and Peach Buds...., 122-123 



The Malefactor's Tree— Tree Peddlers and New 



Subscribers— The Detroit Carnations 128 



FLOWER GARDEN AND PLEASURE GROUND, 97-102 

 GREENHOUSE AND HOUSE GARDENING.... 102-109 



FRUIT AND VEGETABLE GARDENING 110-116 



FORESTRY 117-118 



NATURAL HISTORY AND SCIENCE 118-124 



LITERATURE, TRAVELS & PERSONAL NOTES 124-128 



