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CONTENTS OF THE DECEMBER NUMBER. 



SEASONABLE HINTS : 



Flower Garden and Pleasure Ground. 

 Greenhouse And House Gardening 



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COMMUNICATIONS : 



Victoria Regia in the Open Air 



Fruiting of the Araucaria imbricata 



Notes from California 



Single Dahlias 



The Double Carolina Jasmine 



The Science of Arranging Cut Flowers 



The Marechal Niel Rose 



Experiments with Caladiums 



Seedling Pear 



Fruit Crops in Western Penn'a 



How I Raise Early Celery and Keep it till Spi 



The Gros Colman Grape 



Succession of Forest Growths 



The Old and New, or "God's Acre" Made Beautiful. 



EDITORIAL NOTES : 



The Government Grounds in Ottawa— Rose Gi- 

 gantesque— Cedar of Lebanon in New England- 

 Dwarf Tuberose Diamond— Double Dwarf Ger- 

 man Scabious— Callicarpa Purpurea— Cultivating 

 Daffodils in China— American Banner Rose— Im- 

 proved Foxgloves 



Large Cockscombs — Arranging Cat Flowers- 

 Destroying Insects Under Glass — Fumigating 

 Greenhouses— Arranging Flowers for a Dmner- 



table 



Hot-house Grapes— Gros Colman Grape— The Best 

 Black Grape— Prentiss Grape— Preserving Hot- 

 house Grapes— Yellows in the Peach— Barbed- 

 wire Fences— Sauer-kraut— Comparative Weight 

 of Apples— The Early Fruiting Walnut— Hedge 



hog— The Alexander Peach 



Succession of Forests— Tree Planting in China- 

 Tree Planting in Kansas— Ailanthus Silk Worms 

 — Californian Chestnut Oak for Leather— Tree 

 Planting in Canada— Tree Planting in Nebraska- 

 Insects on Timber Trees— A Year's Tree-planting 



in Great Britain 



Mr. E. D. Cope and the Academy of Natural Sci- 

 ences of Philadelphia — Hybrid Nepenthes — 

 Florida Jute — White Frost Near Paris — The 

 First Fuchsia— Another Sheep Killer— The Ailan- 

 thus Silk Worm— Flowers in Egyptian Hiero- 



glyphics—Potatoes from Tomato Plants — The 

 House Fly and Distribution of Poison Germs- 

 Herbarium of the Academy of Natural Sciences 

 of Philadelphia— Japan Lacquer— Night Closing 

 in the Leaves of Purslane— Summer Migration of 

 the Robin— Scientific Accuracy— Ladies' Traces. 



or Tresses— 371-37& 



To Intelligent Correspondents— Patrick Barry- 

 Index to the Gardener's Monthly— Busts of our 

 Early Botanists — Charles Downing — Stephen 

 Hoyt Sons— Lawsuit on Fruit Trees— EUwanger 

 on the Rose— Dr. Asa Gray— Walter Coles— N.H. 

 Ohmer— Heni-y Winthrop Sargent— Edward Mee- 

 han— Penn Memorial Trees— Portrait of James 

 Vick— St, Petersburg Botanic Garden— Improve- 

 ment in Gardeners — Smallest Flower in the 

 World— American Flowers in Europe— Popular 

 Horticulture— Proceedings of a Convention of 

 Agriculturists, held in the Department of Agri- 

 culture, January, 1881— The Americaa— The New 

 York Independent— Fungi Injurious to Vegeta- 

 tion : ......378-384 



Transactions of Societies— Association of Nursei-y- 

 men and Florists— Convention of Horticulturists 

 in Brussels. Belgium— The Imperial Society of 

 Horticulture of Russia— Horticultvual Societies 

 in the Old World 384 



SCRAPS AND QUERIES : 



Dark-leaved Mountain Ash— Clerodendron Bun- 



gei 3S& 



Dumesnil Fertilizing Moss— A New Decorative 



Plant 



Fruiting of a Lemon— Josephine de Malines Pear 

 —Niagara Grape— Box-grown Strawberry Plants. 368-369 



NEW OR RARE PLANTS AND FRUITS : 



A New Fern— Adiantum Anei tense 364 



FLOWER GARDEN AND PLEASURE GROUND,353-358 

 GREENHOUSE AND HOUSE GARDENING.... 358-364 

 FRUIT AND VEGETABLE GARDENING..... 

 FORESTRY J 



NATURAL HISTORY AND SCIENCE 371-376 



LITERATURE, TRAVELS & PERSONAL NOTES 376-384 

 HORTICULTURAL SOCIETIES 384 



