THE 



GARDENER'S MONTHLY 



■AND 



HORTICULTURIST. 



DEVOTED TO HORTICULTURE. ARBORICULTURE AND RURAL AFFAIRS. 



Edited by THOMAS MEEHAN. 



Vol. XX. 



JULY, 1878. 



Number 235. 



Flower Garden and Pleasure Ground. 



COMMUNICA TIONS. 



A LADY'S WHEELBARROW. 



BY MKS. L. 



I am anxious to bring to your attention a new, 

 light wheelbarrow, patented by a meclianic of 

 this place. He makes a small size for ladies' 

 gardening, which as a great treasure. I have 

 one which I use constantly, being my own gar- 

 •dener, and think other ladies may be glad to 

 have the same. It is not a toy, but strong and 

 also very light, and some are very prettily 

 painted. Mine is simply the natural wood, oiled 

 and varnished. I send the address where they 

 ■are sold in Kew York, and feel sure if j^ou see 

 them, you will be glad to recommend them to 

 jour readers. 



I desire to add my protest to that of many 

 -others against the sending of plants from insect- 

 infested green-houses. It is too bad to have 

 scale and mealy bug brought into one's collection 

 of choice, clean plants. 



[We know our correspondent very well, and 

 respect her delicacy in not putting in the name 

 of the party making the light wheelbarrow ; for 

 it is too common for \fi-iters, under the guise of 

 " information," to smuggle in an advertisement, 

 thereby doing an injustice to those advertisers 

 who honestly and squarely pay for them in their 

 proper columns. For that reason — and not 

 from mere financial Teasons — we never allow 

 such smuggled goods to pass, when they happen 

 to be of the same class as other people pay for. 

 In the case of an entirel}' new and valuable 



plant, fruit, invention or idea, distinct from all 

 others already in the trade, and which we feel is 

 of benefit to the public, we never ask editorially 

 whether the parties in interest have " been to 

 the counting-room," but give the discoverers all 

 the benefit from their discoveries, and they can 

 afterwards advertise their wares and prices or 

 not, as they choose. So, in this instance, we 

 have no hesitation in saying that the name the 

 lad}^ sends, is Tugsle}" & Chapman, Xew York 

 city. The fact that so good a gardener as we 

 know this lady to be, should recommend this 

 barrow, is in some respects better than looking 

 at it with our large editorial eyes. — Ed. G. M.] 



HOW BEDDING PLANTS MAY BE 

 ARRANGED. 



BY C. G. BJORKLUND, NATIOKAL SOLDIERS' 

 HOME, HAMPTON, YA. 



Regular Foliage Beds should properly be some 

 distance from the walks, say 40 to 60 feet, and 

 where convenient, be placed behind the carpet- 

 beds for which they may serve as backgrounds, 

 while. the}^ lose nothing in appearance thereby. 

 The shape of these beds is not subject to much 

 restriction, 'though circles, ovals or parallelo- 

 grams are preferable. 



Only one variety of foliage plant should l)e put 

 in each bed as chief plant, and these two or three 

 feet apart, with Petunias, Yerbenas, Alyssum or 

 such like plants between them as undergrowth, 

 bordered by one or two ribbons. The following 

 plants may be used for this purpose : 



Aralia papyrifera, Caladium esculentum, 

 Polymnia grandis, Wigandia caracassana, Canna 



