The Gardeners Monthly 



AND HORTICULTURIST, 



EDITED BY THOMAS MEEHAN. 



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CONTENTS OF THE OCTOBER NUMBER. 



-290 



SEASONABLE HINTS : 



Flower Garden and Pleasure Ground 



Greenhouse and House Gardening 



Fruit and Vegetable Gardening 300-302 



COMMUNICATIONS : 



Hardiness of the Bermuda Grass 290 



The Ailantus 290 



EverOTeen Hedges under Trees 291 



The Beauty of the DandeUon 291 



Propagating Hydrangeas 291 



The Cypress Family in Texas 292 



Cheap Paint 292 



The Siberian Arborvitse 



Celosia Clarkii 



Fertilizing Moss 



Allamanda 



Glazing without Lapping 



Cydonia Japonica— Tne Coming Hedge Plant 



Irrigation in Kansas 



Rabbits in Orchards 



Some Desultory Notes about Strawberries 



A Grape for California 304 



How to Grow Early Cabbage 304 



Botanical Notes from New Jersey 309 



Damson Dje vs. Damson Pie 310 



Varieties Reproducing Themselves 311 



Notes from the West 311 



Residence of "W. B. Dinsmore, Kingston, N. Y 314 



The Decimal System 316 



EDITORIAL NOTES : 



Mr. H. B. Ellwanger's Rose Crosses— Flowering 

 of the Victoria regia in the Open Air— Euonymus 

 radicans— BuddedRoses— PropagatingHydrangea 



paniculata— Rosa minutif olia 298-294 



Fostering a Love for Flowers— Moss Culture- 

 Imitation Flowers 298 



Fruit Growing and Gardening in Florida— Straw- 

 berries in Ohio— The Grape Crop in the Lake 

 Regions— Apple Crop in Michigan— American Ap- 

 ples in China— Vegetable Gardening about Louis- 

 ville—Premiums for New Fruits— James Vick 

 Strawberry— Strawberry Burr's Pine— The Sou- 

 hegan Raspberry — The Lucretia Blackberry— 



313 



Dormant Bud Peach Planting — The Amsden 



Peach— Florida Oranges 301-3*5 



Planting Seedlings from the Forest — Graduates 

 in Arboriculture— Succession of Forest Growths- 

 Roadside Forestry — Forestry in Canada — Forestry 



Planting— Spark Arrestors. 



Sex of the Ailantus— The Mole— The Rose "With- 

 out Thorns— Coal and Lignite in Mexico— Tomato 



Disease in Kentucky 



Mr. Warren H. Manning— Maurice Vilmorin— 

 Estate of the Late Charles Darwin— Nepenthes 

 Rajah— Professor Joseph L. Barf oot— The Pro- 

 gress of Refinement- Hide-bound Beings— Hough- 

 ton Farm Experiments with Indian Com— Origin 

 of the Marechal Niel Rose— Injurious Insects of 

 the Farm and Garden— American Game-bird 

 Shooting— The American Silk and Fruit Cul- 



turist 317 



SCRAPS AND QUERIES : 



Grafting Epiphyllum— Celosia Clarkii— Cattleya 

 Dowiana— Culture of Clerodendron Imperiale— 



New Coleus—Calceolaria crenatlfclia 



Hansen and Superb Raspberries— Hansell and 

 Superb Raspberries — Healthfulness of Pears 

 Propagated from Plants Growing on Dwarf 

 Stocks— The Willson Peach— Degenerate Albany 

 Seedling Strawberries— White Blackberries— The 

 Boss Watermelon— Tomato Disease— Yucca Fibre 



for Tjing Purposes 306-307 



Tubular-rayed Rudbeckia— Poisonous Kalmia— 

 Cicada septendecim— Paper Mulberry 313-314 



NEW OR RARE PLANTS AND FRUITS : 



Yellow Calla Lily— Heliconia aureo-striata 298 



FLOWER GARDEN AND PLEASURE GROUND,289-294 

 GREENHOUSE AND HOUSE GARDENING.... 294-300 

 FRUIT AND VEGETABLE GARDENING.... 



FORESTRY 



NATURAL HISTORY AND SCIENCE 



LITERATURE, TRAVELS & PERSONAL NOTES 314-320 



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