THE FARM AND GARDEN. 



Select your varieties now, at your ea^e, by your 

 p-eHde. Plant them in the spring early. Do your 

 thinking now, and your planting then. 



Se^idfor the seedsmen s catalogues' and read them. 

 There w always something to be learned. 



Single Dahlia, 

 a fine show of dahlias. 



WTien we wrote the article on pajie six concern- 

 ing Dahlias, we did not expect to say more about 

 them so soon, but we feel tnat the subject merits 

 this muoli more attention. 



Years ago we used to regard dahlias as the most 

 popular tlower for the garden. Of lat« years we 

 have not seen so much of them, for a great many 

 persons have made up their minds from repeated 

 failures with it, that it is an unsatisfactory plant, 

 Bimply because one season it may do well, and 

 the next fail. Now, Dahlias may be grown very 

 successfully every year, if two tilings are attended 

 to. The first is to start the plant into growth 

 early in the spring, after having bought good 

 stock from a reliable dealer. Tlie Dahlia requires 

 a long season of growth, longer than our brief 

 northern summer atTords, and unless we can give 

 it about a month more of growth than it will be 

 likely to get if we pot it out in the open ground 

 at once, we need not be surprised if it fails to i)ro- 

 duce a good crop of flowers before frosty weather 

 comes. After frost we can expect nothing, for it 

 Is very easily injured. Therefore, to prolong it^ 

 season, we must start the tubers in the house 

 early in March. By the time the ground has 

 become warm, we will have plants a foot or more 

 In height. Always break the tubers apart when 

 putting them in pots or boxes to start. One tuber 

 makes as good a piant as half a dozen ; then, after 

 setting the plants out, care must be taken that 

 they do not suffer from drought, for they require 

 plenty of moisture, and one reason why we nave 

 good plants one year, and poor ones next Is, that 



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one season is wet and the other dry. If you 

 have been observant you will recollect that 

 your old Dahlias did well when there was a 



food deal of rain, and the reverse, when 

 here was but little. Always.'givi- your 

 plants all the soapsuds from washday, and 

 in hot, drying weather, make a mulch about 

 the plants from/graas clippings from the 

 lawn. Dahlias are gross feeders, and must 

 have a very rich soli if you expect them 

 to do their best. It must be dog to a depth 

 of at least afoot and a half, and should be 

 kept mellow. Stakes must be set about 

 each plant to tie the branches to, as they 

 are very brittle and break off easily. 

 Grasses and Dried Flowers. 

 Those who have never seen the beautiful 

 grasses that are cultivated by the florist and 

 dyed with so much care and skill, have no 

 idea of how much more attractive a room 

 can be made at very small expense. A plain 

 room, decorated with some of these grasses, 

 with a mingling of everlasting flowers, can 

 be made a constant source of pleasure dur- 

 ing the dreary'winter season. A few stately 

 Pampas plumes, in beautiful colors, and a 

 few bright everlasting flowers with some 

 of the graceful feather grass, placed in a 

 pair of large vases on a mantel, and home 

 grasses gathered during pleasant walks in 

 lat€ sumnner time, with a small mixture ol 

 colored sea oats among them, will make at- 

 tractive the plainest apartment. The Agros- 

 tis. too, for small vases, and o*,her small 

 varieties deserve honorable mention. 

 A Bunch of Baltimore Belles. {Climbing 

 JioatS). 

 If we look around in gardens where a 

 warmer climate and more constant sun 

 brings out luxurious growth in many things, 

 we see such arcades, bowers, pillars, and climbing 

 masses of beautiful roses on all sides as makes 

 one discontented with our beautiful individual 

 blooms, and the absence from our gardens of these 

 luxuriant musses that neither require nor obtain 

 any special care whatever from one year's end to 

 the other. If, as is only too true, the varieties of 

 the Rose that produce such glorious effects in 

 foreign gardens, are not hardy enough for us, 

 why do we not try to raise new varieties that 

 shall resist our cold and changeable seasons. 

 Surely there is choice enough of species and vari- 

 eties in a plant that ranges, one may say, all over 

 the world, among which wt- may tind something 

 that shall be the parent of hardy climbing varie- 

 ties, as beautiful in our climate :is the Noisette 

 and Indica Major roses are in the south of 

 France and elsewhere, Baltimore Belle and the 

 many varieties of H. T. Roses that have lately 

 been raised are all good in their way, but they 

 demand good soil and space for themselves. 

 When it is a warm wall that needs clothing, then 



Do ynu ^vant to eai^iily help uh without nii^ coMt 

 to >ourselff We hope you do. and this in ihi* 

 ^vay in which yon cau do it. Whenever you send 

 an order or iTrite lor n. catalogue to un adver- 

 tiser, say you na.w the nd. in the Fm m and <>nr- 

 den. He ^vill then give us credit tor hnving 

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 this and w^e will Ihunk you. 



Double Dahlla. 



It is that the Banksian or various hybndfl of 

 Noisette and Tea Roses may be used. Now let nji 

 advise our readers to prepare a good piece ol 

 ground near their front porch and as soon as the 

 soil is ready for it, to plant at least a half a dozen 

 of fine climbing roses of various colors. They 

 will take good care of themselves if pruned when 

 they need It, and a covering of manure be given 

 them annually, and dozens of fine clusters of 

 flowers may be cut from them weekly, — ^yet, 

 daUy. 



House plants, well cared for, are an ornament 

 to the farm house ; and give a cheerful look to the 

 winter fireside. To keep them well requires care; 

 and no class of plants repay care better. The 

 green coior of foliage, so much admired by all, is 

 given to plants by Ammonia. This can be easily 

 supplied by taking a little manure and soaking 

 it in water and allow it to settle, and, when clea^ 

 wet tiie soil very moderately with it. Little and 

 often is the best. 



Everyone should read the Rose offer on page 8, ond 

 tfir Xiglil'Il looming Cereus on page 6, 



Our requests to frubtcribfrs^ though sometimes in a 

 humorous strain, are intended by us to produce a 

 real effect, and we are soberly in earnest in energetic 

 cally pushing our business. Therefore let it b9 

 understood that we sincerely desire your aid <n 

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