The Gardeners Monthly 



AND HOETICULTUEIST, 



EDITED BY THOMAS MEEHAN. 



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CONTENTS OF THE AUGUST NUMBER. 



SEASONABLE HINTS : 



Flower Garden and Pleasure Ground iii5 



Fruit and Vegetable Garden 2;?S 



COMMUNICATIONS : 



The Adornment of Small Yards 



list of Coniferae, Hardy in the Vicinity of Br 



Massachusetts '. 



Public Parks of St. Louis 



Steam Heating 



Dendrobium Bigibbum 



Makoya Bella 



Steam Heating 



Shy Flowering Plants 



On the Culture of the Gloxinia:^ 



Bignonia Venusta 



Cool Orchids— Laelias 



Strawberries 



Disease on Pear Limbs 



Peach Flowers 



Growth of Trees at Brenham, Texas 



Historical Notes on the Arborvit?p 



Bulb Growing in Holland 



256 



EDITOIUAL NOTES : 



Cats in Gardens— An Arch from a Pine Tree- 

 Japan Maples— Golden Arbor Vita? Grafted on 

 Retinospora— Decadence of Gardening in Japan 

 —An Enormous Variety of Wistaria— A New Co- 

 lumbine—The English Bird Cherry as a Street 

 Tree— Forks and Spades— Golden Evergreens— 

 Picea alcoquiana— Old-fashioned &hrubs-r A Hon- 

 eysuckle Ornament- Single Dahlias — Early Rho- . 



dodendrons , 228r22!3 



Improvements in Floral Designs— Solonljjn's Seal 



for Decorating— Richardia ^thiopica-^Moss Cul- I 



ture. ....:... 236-237 



History of a Five Cent Paper of Seed— Mushroom i 

 Culture— Codling Moth— The Manchester Straw- 

 berry— fhe Best Flavored Strawberries 241-244 I 



The Culture and Management of our Native For- \ 



ests— Profitable Tree Planting— Timber in Vir- i 



ginia— Section of Sequoia— Forest Fires— Forestry 



at Cincii\nati — Durability of Timber 



An Enormous Flower— Color in the Dark— Rain- 

 fall in Utah— Seventeen Year Locusts— Wholesale 

 Coining of Common Names— Thie Flowering 

 White Mignonette— Substitute for Quinine— Eng- 



245 



lish Names— A Hybrid Cotton Plant — Opuntia 

 Raflnesqui in Canada — Helianthus Maximiliani 



—Damage by Crickets 246-248 



Rochester Nui-series— The Detroit Carnations— 

 TheApricot— Gardening by the Monks of Old- 

 Roman Floral Luxuries— A Rush— History of the 

 Dahlia—Origin of the Name Horse Chestnut— 

 The Chestnut^Alan W. Corson— The Business of 

 .Tames Vick— Memoir of Charles Darwin— The 

 Horse : How to Buy and Sell, Ac. -Rules for 



Simple Hygiene— The Ladies' Floral Cabinet 251-255 



American Nurserymen's Association 



SCRAPS AND QUERIES : 



Some Rose Questions— The Hemlock Spruce in 

 England— Ailantus and the Public iBCealth— The 

 Double Sloe— Raphiolepis indica— Hemlocks and 

 Maple Trees— Improvement of Small Gardens. . . 

 Peach Trees in Fence Corners— Seedling Straw- 

 berry from W. F. Bassett, Hammonton, JN,.Jw— 



Asparagus— European Walnuts in Arkansas 



Glutinous stigmas in Akebia quinat^r-Morchellia 

 esculenta— White Herb Robert— Purple Anemone 

 nemorosa— Double Native Columbine— Fruit of 



Paper Mulberry 



Typographical Errors— French Weights and Meas- 



iires 255 



NEW OR RARE PLANTS AND FRUITS: 



Ellwanger's New Seedling Roses— Gyrnira auran- 

 tiaca— Wiegela Candida— A New Upright Honey- 

 suckle (Lonicera Alberti) '.,:.. 230 



Croton Sinitzianus— President Garfield Bou- 

 , vardia..... 237-238 



FLOWER GARDEN AND PLEASURE GROUND,225-231 

 GREENHOUSE AND HOUSE GARDENING.... 232-238 



FRUIT AND VEGETABLE GABD^MnG 238-244 



FORESTRY .- 244-245 



NATURAL HISTORY AND SCIENCE 246-249 



LITERATURE, TRAVELS & PERSONAL NOTES 249-255 

 HORTICULTURAL SOCIETIES 256 



