The Gardener's Monthly 



AND HORTICULTURIST, 



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CONTENTS OF THE JUNE NUMBER. 



SEASONABLE HINTS : 



Flower Garden and Pleasure Ground. 

 Greenhouse and House Gardening — 

 Fruit and Vegetable Garden 



COMMUNICATIONS : 



The Adornment of Small Yards 162 



Hyde Park, St. Louis :. 163 



The Arboretum, Derby, England 163 



Pruning Ornamental Trees 164 



Culture of Hardy Cypripediums 164 



Attendance on Steam Boilers 168 



Culture of the Chrysanthemum, etc 16S 



Steam Heating 169 



Greenhouse Notes from St. Louis 169 



Rhyncospermum jasminoides 169 



The Muck Question 174 



Rust in Blackberries 176 



Forestry Notes 179 



Note on the Buzzard 182 



South Carolina Wild Flowers 182 



Agency of Water in Changing the Character of For- 

 ests; 18^^ 



EDITORIAL NOTES : 



Origin of the Manetti Rose— Double Dahlias— Im- 

 proved Wall-flowers— A Large Violet— Clover in 

 Lawns— PjTus salicifolia— Health and Shade Trees 



Kew Gardens 165-166 



Beautiful Orchids— Greenhouses of Patterson 

 Bros., Pittsburg, Pa.— The Indian Currant in Deco- 

 ration—Bouquets in the London Market— Arrang- 

 ing Flowers for Evening Effect— Flowers on the 



Dinner Table— Passiflora princeps 169-171 



The Flat-headed Borer—Peach Culture— French 

 Fruits in England— Imperfect Flowering Grapes 

 —Oranges in Europe— Osage Orange Silk— Pear, 

 B. S. Fox— Cochin China Grape— The Pockling- 

 ton Grape— Winter Nelis Pear— Peach Flowers- 

 Preserving Spanish Grapes— Pea Sticks— Full 



Podded Peas— President Garfield Pea 176-177 



Seedling Forest Trees— Legislative Forestry— Cul- 

 tivating Forest Trees— Tree Planting in Australia 

 —Forest Growth in America— Forest Fires— Value 

 of the Ailanthus Timber— Polygonum amphibium 

 for Tannuig— An Old White Pine— Michigan For- 

 ests 180-181 



Dr. Parrv— Early Birds which d id not Find the 

 Worm— The Botanic Gardens at Melbourne— The 



Annual Circles of Wood in a Tree— Hybrid Or- 

 chids—The Seasons in America and England- 

 Botany in the French Capital— American Sights 



Worth Seeing— Hard Botanical Names 183-187 



James Vick— Women in Horticulture— Webster 

 and Papaw— Watson's Nurseries, Brenham, 

 Texas— Western Art— The Redwood— Spinach- 

 Insects Injurious to Forest and Shade Trees- 

 Peach Culture— Book of Plant Descriptions— The 

 Silk Worm- Proceedings of the American Pomo- 



logieal Society 188-190 



Associations of City Florists— Premiums at Hor- 

 ticultural Societies— Maryland Horticultural So- 

 cieties—Massachusetts Horticultural Society— 

 Germantown, Pa., Horticultural Society— Law- 

 rence, Mass., Horticultural Society— American 

 Nurserymen's Association— Philadelphia Florists' 

 Association— Programme of the Spring Exhibi- 

 tion of the Royal Horticultural Society of Tus- 

 cany—American Forestry Association 191-192 



SCRAPS AND QUERIES : 



Propagating Hydrangeas— Indian Cherry— Cattle 



in Cities— \ ariegated Arbor Vitses 166 



Questions on Steam Management — Steam Heat- 

 ing Around Chicago— Odontoglossum citrosmum. 172-173 

 Juglans praeparturiens— Disease in Pear and Ap- 

 ple Trees— A Native Apple— Strong's Method of 



Grafting 177-179 



Notes from Waukegan, 111.— Size of Honey Lo- 

 cust— Catalpa at Beaver Dam, Wisconsin 181-182 



Scarlet Flowers from a White Geranium— Growth 



of Wood— Yellow Choke Cherry 187 



Detroit Carnations Again— Paper by the Editor. . 190 



NEW OR RARE PLANTS AND FRUITS : 



Pavonia Makoyany— Ornithogalum coarctatum. ..171-172 



FLOWER GARDEN AND PLEASURE GROUND,161-167 

 GREENHOUSE AND jHOUSE GARDENING.... 167-173 



FRUIT AND VEGETABLE GARDENING 173-179 



FORESTRY 179-187 



NATURAL HISTORY AND SCIENCE 182-188 



LITERATURE, TRAVELS* PERSONAL NOTES 188-190 

 HORTICULTURAL SOCIETIES 191-192 



