The Gardeners Monthly 



AND HOETICULTUEIST, 



EDITED BY THOMAS MEEHAN. 



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CHAS. H. MAROT, Publisher, 814 Chestnut Street, Phila. 



CONTENTS OF THE 



SEASONABLE HINTS : 



Flower Garden and Pleasure Ground 257 



Fruit and Vegetable Garden 266 



COMMUNICATIONS : 



Among the Elder Bushes 2.58 



Cuttings from Old Wood 258 



Yuccas 2.59 



Propagating Hydrangea paniculata 2-59 



Elberon 2.59 



Hardy Herbaceous Plants for General Cultivation. . . 260 



Bermuda Grass and Lawns 261 



Canna Nepalensis 263 



Plants Grown in Moss 263 



Glazing Greenhouses 264 



New Early Peaches 267 



Forcing Early Cauliflower 268 



Cicada Septendecim 274 



Tapping Maple Trees in Spring, Etc 275 



Sexual Characters in Dioecious Trees 275 



Notes from Arizona 276 



Sketch of the Life of the Late Alan W. Corson 278 



Residence of W. B. Dinsmore, Kingston, N. Y 280 



EDITORIAL NOTES : 



Single Dahlias— Rose Baroness Rothschild— Datura 

 arborea — Synonyms of Roses — Paulownia impe- 

 rialis— The Government Grounds at Ottawa— Jap- 

 anese Chrysanthemum from Seed 261-262 



Steam Heating— Plants in Fertilized Moss 264 



Protection to Orchards— Grape Rot— Protecting 

 Peach Trees in Severe Climates— Some Large , 



Strawberries— Le Conte Pear— McCracken Black- | 



berry — Churchman's Superb Raspberry — The 

 Caroline Raspberry— The Hansell Raspberry— The 

 Hansen Raspberry— Fay's Currant— Out-door i 



Mushroom Beds— Small Fruits in Japan— Culture i 



of Raspberries— Flat Chinese Peach— Using Py- ! 



rethrum Powder— The English Sparrow in Canada 

 —Nectarine— Apple Beauty of Hants— Black Knot 



on the Pacific Coast— The Curl in the Peach . .268-270 



Eucalyptus in California— Forests of Maine— | 



SEPTEMBER NUMBER. 



Forest Fires— Lumber Resources of the LTnited 



States 272-273 



Poverty and Productiveness— A New Guess at 

 Drift Deposits— The Sugar Maple Border— Theory 



and Practice 277 



The Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences- 

 Legend of the Cherokee Rose— The Ameri- 

 can Candle— The Victoria Regia— Globba coccinea 

 —The Cost of Nursery Products— The American 

 Nurserjonan— Residence of W. B. Dinsmore— The 

 Naturalists' Leisure Hour and Monthly Bulletin 

 —Thomas Moore— The Penn Monthly— How to 

 Overcome the Potato Disease— Contributions to 

 American Botany— The New Botany— Transac- 

 tions of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society 

 — Eucalyptographia — Elements of Forestry — 

 Tenth Cincinnati Industrial Exposition Pro- 

 gramme of the Horticultural Department— Ran- 

 dolph County (Ind.) Horticultural Society -281-288 



SCRAPS AND QUERIES : 



Glendale Strawberrj-— .'V New Peach Wanted— 

 Defective Raspberries — Campbell's Triumph 

 Grape— Prolific Raspberries- Russian Mulberry, 



et cetera 270-272 



Railroads and Forest Fires— Rainfall and Forests. 273 



CancUe Wax Tree 277-278 



A Peculiar Auriphon- Derby Arboretum 288 



NEW OR RARE PLANTS AND FRUITS : 



Davallia Fijiensis— Gynuraaurantiaca, Brown 265-266 



FLOWER GARDEN AND PLEASURE GROUND,257-262 

 GREENHOUSE AND HOUSE GARDENING., 



FRUIT AND VEGETABLE GARDENING 



FORESTRY 272-273 



NATURAL HISTORY AND SCIENCE 274-278 



LITERATURE, TRAVELS & PERSONAL NOTES 278-288 



