The Gardeners Monthly 



AND HOETICULTURIST, 



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CONTENTS OF 



SEASONABLE HINTS : 



Flower Garden and Pleasure Ground 



Fruit and Vegetable Garden 



COMMUNICATIONS : 



Gardening Experiments, Wise an<l Otherwise 



Seeds and Seed Sowing 



Some Southern Evergreens 



Helonias BuUata 



The Polyautha Rose 



Floral Identities 



A Few Budding Plants 



A Display of Colors in Spring 



A Few Desirable Shrubs 



Heating by Steam 



A Marechal Niel Rose 



Glazing and Pipe-setting 



Mr. F. L. Ames' Orchids 



A New Grape-vine— The Cochin-Chinese, Tuberous- 

 rooted Vine 



Apple as a Stock for Seckel Pear 



Drone Bees on the Wing— A Great Mystery 



Fremontia 



John Muir, the California Naturalist 



Pennsylvania Horticultural Society 



EDITORIAL NOTES : 



Pritchardia Grandis— Rose, Duke of Connaught— 



Seedling Azaleas 



The Silk Worm Mulberry— Concord Grape South 

 —Bacteria in Fruit Diseases— Table Grapes in 

 the South— A Promising Native Grape to Improve 

 —Windsor Cherry— Caroline Raspljerrj'— Raising 

 Seedlings— Miner Plum— Hovey's Seedling Straw- 

 berry—Best Soil tor the Raspberry— The Codling 

 Jloth— Superior Canadian Apples— Premiums for 

 Celery and Onion Essays— American Vegetables 

 and Fruits— The Newtown Pippin Apple— Toma- 

 toes to the Acre— Peach Culture— Grapes in Aus- 

 tralia—Filberts in California— The Tobacco Crop 

 —Olive Culture— Peach Culture in Australia- 

 Large Seckel Pears— Substitute for Coffee- The 

 Rogers' Grape— Cherry Stocks— Pine Apples— 



THE JULY NUMBER. 



Massachusetts Apples— Seckel Pear— Quince Cul- 

 ture 208-211 



Aged Trees— End of a Historic Elm— A Walnut 

 Grove in Wisconsin— Poor Land for Forests- 

 Timber in Michigan— The Farnesian Acacia 212-213 



Laws of the Weather— Transpiration of Plants— 

 SelagineUa Victoriae- Abies Concolor and Lowiana 



—The Date Palm— A Colossal Fern 214-217 



Wllder's Speech on Agricultural Education— Old- 

 mixon — Charles Darwin — Introduction of the 

 Cedar of Lebanon— Professor Edward Morren, of 

 Leige— The Hallidays of Baltimore— James Vick 

 —George A. Stone— Flowers and Ferns of the 

 United States— Entomology— Correspondence Bot- 

 anique— American Journal of Forestrj' . 

 Pennsylvania Horticultural Society— Marjland 

 Horticultural Society— Premiums for Seedling 



Fruits 



SCRAPS AND QUERIES : 



Floral Designs— Greenhouse Correspondence- 

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224 



Carnation " Beauty " — Fumigating Cones — A 

 ' Double Catalonian Jasmine 205 



Sulphur for Fungus— Flat Chinese Peach— Manur- 



i ing in the West— Eureka Peach 211-212 



! Barren Gingko Trees— Fruiting of the Gingko— A 



I " Collector's " Letter— The Tallow Tree 217-218 



( Beaufin, Biffin, or Beefin Apple— The European 



and American Chestnut— Criticisms on other 



I Magazines 222-223 



' NEW OR RARE PLANTS AND FRUITS : 



I Hsemanthus Kalbreyeri 203-204 



j FLOWER GARDEN AND PLEASURE GROUND,19.S-200 

 j GREENHOUSE AND HOUSE* GARD ENING.. .. 200-205 



I FRUIT AND VEGETABLE GARDENING 205-212 



{ FORESTRY 212-213 



I NATURAL HISTORY AND SCIENCE 213-218 



I LITERATURE, TRAVELS & PERSONAL NOTES 219-223 

 I HORTICULTURAL SOCIETIES 224 



