THE GARDENERS' MONTHLY 



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CONTENTS OF THE MARCH NUMBER. 



BEASONABLE HINTS : 



Flower Garden and Pleasure Ground 65 



Fruit and Vegetable Gardening 78 



COMMUNICATIONS : 



Victoria regia in the Open Air 66 



Summer Rose Culture. 67 



Summer Flowering Vines 67 



Single Dahlias 68 



Notes on Flower Gardening 68 



Flowers in North Windows 71 



Notes by the Way 71 



Hot Water and Steam Heating 72 



Marechal Niel Roses Under Glass 73 



Heating a Small Plant House 73 



Cultivation of Strelitzia regina 74 



Aiding the Draft of Flues 74 



A Productive Rose 75 



Heating by Coal Oil Lamps 75 



Notes on Hot Water Heating 75 



Celery Culture 79 



Experience with Phylloxera 79 



The CodUng Moth 80 



Culture of the Hardy Grape 81 



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Destructive Insects 



Vegetables 



On the Fertilization of Wheat . 



The Habitats of Plants 



Letter from Italy 



The Chinese National Flower. . 



EDITORIAL NOTES : 



Two Fine New Bedding Plants— Rosa polyantha— 

 Clearing Weeds from Walks— The Derby Arbore- 

 tum— IU)se Jean Liabaud— The Mist Tree — Cactus 



Hedges— Hedges of Conifene 69-70 



Culture of Fruit Trees— Farming in New England 

 —The Japan Persimmon— The Advantage of Bring- 



ing Peaches Early to Market — Red-leaved Endive 

 — sugar in America— Good Potatoes — Green Com 



— Squashes — Onions and Celery 82-83 



Practical Forestry- Pines of Mount Desert Island 

 — The " Hardy " Catalpa— A Public Forest in the 

 State of Nevr York — Morus multicaulis — Amovxnt 

 of Tannin in the Bark of Some of the Trees in the 



United States 84-86 



The Forking of Ferns— Bowiea volubilis— Du- 

 rand's Oak — Remarkable Discovery in Textile 



Fibres— Kalmia and Sheep 87-89 



What is a Garden ? — Practical Esthetics — Charles 

 Crucknell— Dr. C. C. Parry— John Ellis— Mr. John 

 W. Slater— A Sound Mind in a Sound Body— The 

 Hill Cumorah— Gardening for Young and Old — 

 Colorado as an Agricultural State — Forestry Bul- 

 letin No. 23— Annual Report of the Director of the 

 Arnold Arboretum, 1881-82 -Les Plantes Potageres 

 —The Virginias 93-96 



SCRAPS AND QUERIES : 



Steam Heating — Growing Carnations — Window 



Plants 76-78 



Campbell Plum— Improved Persimmons— Budded 



Apple Stocks— Kieffer's Hybrid Pear 83-84 



The Seasons in Italy— The American Crab Apple — 



Various Inquiries .' 89-90 



Hawthorns— Improvement in Young Gardeners- 

 Inquiries from Correspondents — The Late Mr. Ed- 

 ward Meehan— The Gardeners' Monthly for 

 1883 96 



NEW OR RARE PLANTS : 



New Double Bouvardias- Dieffenbachla amoena. . 76 

 FLOWER GARDEN AND PLEASURE GROUND, 65-70 



GREENHOUSE AND HOUSE GARDENING 71-78 



FRUIT AND VEGETABLE GARDENING 78-84 



FORESTRY 84-85 



NATURAL HISTORY AND SCIENCE 86-90 



LITERATURE, TRAVELS & PERSONAL NOTES. . 90-96 



