The Gardener's Monthly 



AND HORTICULTURIST, 



EDITED BY THOMAS MEEHAN. 



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CONTENTS OF THE MAY NUMBER. 



SEASONABLE HINTS : 



Flower Garden and Pleasure Ground 129 



Fruit and Vegetable Glarden / 14:^ 



COMMUNICATIONS : 



The Adornment ot Small "iards 130 



Budded Roses 131 



Hardy Cypripetiium.^ , 132 



Yuccas 132 



Calendula Meteor 132 



Chestnut Hybrid Rose 132 



Tropical Orchids in Open Air ot isumiuer 135 



Steam Heating in Chicago 136 



Rondoletia Speciosa Major 136 



Steam-Heating '. — 137 



Fumigating . 



Universal Side Cleft Grafting 



Fig Culture Again 



United States Timber Laws 



AUanthus in South Jersey 



Winter in Washington Territory 



Heredity in White Variegation 



Letter of a Califomian Nurseryman. 

 Canis Ferox Cum Kettlebees. ." 



EDITORIAL NOTES : 



Wild Roses— Removing Large Trees— Improve- 

 ment at White Sulphur Spring.s— The California 



Mammoth Tree in Europe 133 



Orchid Growing— The Harris Lily— Steam Heat- 

 ing—Bridal Bouquets '. 137-139 



Relation Between Seeds and Quality — Peach Yel- 

 lows—Lichens and Tree Fungi— Stump Pullers— 

 The Grape Vine Mildew— The Foreign Grape in 

 America— Glut in the Apple Market— Ramie— 

 Magnesian Limestone — American Jute — Bottling 

 Grapes— Fruit Culture in England— Deterioration 

 of the Strawbenj— Storing Apples— An ^Esthete 

 in Pear Flavor— Vital Powerin Fruit Trees— Ka by 

 Castle Red Cunant— Drying Apples Whole— In- 

 sect Laws— Fruit and Vegetables on the Sacra- 

 mento — Soil for Peas— Growing Radishes— How 

 to Ripen Persimmons— Peach Yellows— Yeast 



as an Insecticide— The Leechee Fruit 144-147 



Forestry Nonsense— Growth of Forest Trees— Eu- 

 ropean Forests 149-150 



Nertera depressa — Nyniphaja tuberosa — Vegeta- 

 tion of Arizona ." 152-153 



Plants Patents Again— Favors — Decaisne — The 



History of the Camellia— Satisfied with the Flow- 

 ers— Suel Foster— Jesse Storrs— Joseph Decaisne 

 —Dr. W. H. Leggett— Charles Robert Darwin— 

 The Rose— Chemistry of the Farm— Sweet Potato 

 Culture— A New Work on Destructive Insects- 

 Universal Interest TaVdes— Kansas City Review 

 of Science and Industry— The Penn Monthly h5(i-160 



SCRAPS AND QUERIES : 



Rural Cemeteries — Bedding Pennyroyal — Superior 

 Hyacinth— Extra Double Isabella Sprunt Rose- 

 Rose, Etoile de Lyon— Violet Princess Marie de 

 Savoy— Fremontia Califomica— Talk about Lilies 134-135 

 Isotoma longtflora — Conoclinium ianthinum — 

 Strelitzia reginae— Blue Carpet Bedder— New Ces- 

 trum— Queries on Steam Heating— Winter Bloom- 

 ing White Flower— Black Flea on Heliotrope — 

 Poinsetta pulcherrima — The Detroit Carnations.. 138-142 

 Winter Nelis Pear— Bentley's Sweet Apple- 

 Highland Beauty Apple— Calloway Cling Peach- 

 Sulphur for Currant Worms— Fruits and Trees in 

 Kansas— Success with Dwarf Apples— Pea c'l Cul- 

 ture—Hybridizing Grapes ,147-148 



The Romance of Forestry 150 



Papaw— Yellow Frviited Clioke Cherrj— Rosal 

 Monstrosity — Ig Kalmia Poisonous ? — Health and 

 Ailanthus — Erica Meditteranea — Atamasco Lily 



—Note on Color? lo3-1.5.5 



A Gardeners' Society— Rhyncospennum 160 



NEW OR RARE PI ANTS AND FRUITS: 



Croton recurvifolius 139 



FLOWER GARDEN AND PLEASURE GROUND,l-29-135 

 GREENHOUSE AND |HOUSE GARDENING.... 1X5-142 



FRUIT AND VEGETABLE GARDENING 142-148 



FORESTRY 149-151 



NATURAL HISTORY AND SCIENCE 151-155 



LITERATURE, TRAVELS & PERSONAL NOTES 155-160 



