GARDENING. 



Sept. I^y 



ply of moisture to the roots during the 

 growing season, there is scarcely any 

 derartnicnt of ornamental planting into 

 which it may not be introduced with ex- 

 cellent etTcct." tkiodadvice to be sure.at 

 the same time far too restricted. While 

 the umbrella pine will thrive ijvherever the 

 rhododendron will in theopea. rhododen- 

 drons will thrive in the shade, and it won't, 

 and it will thrivein opensunny exposures 

 where a rhododendron would burn out. 

 And it is hardierthanourrhododendrons. 

 The largest umbrella pine at Dosoris is 

 lo feet high and a perfect specimen from 

 the ground to the tip, and it is growing 

 on a south facing slope, on sandy land, 

 with a scattering of other trees near it. 

 But we mulch theground about it heavily 

 every year, were it not for this mulch- 

 ing it would burn out. 



Cedrus Atlantica argentea is the 

 name imder which the beautiful glaucous 

 Mount Atlas cedar tree is now being ad- 

 vertised. Get it, cost what it may. The 

 specimen at Dosoris is, we believe, the 

 handsomest tree of its kind in the coun- 

 try. It is the tree before which, two 

 months ago, that veteran arboriculturist 

 Josiah Hoopes, of Westchester, Pa , un- 

 covered his head and declared "That is 

 the loveliest tree I ever saw in mj' life 

 either in this country or in Europe." You 

 will find a picture of it in Gardenln'G, 

 page 163, February 15, '94, engraved 

 from a photograph of it taken some years 

 ago. But it has grown and improved in 

 appearance immensely since then. 



Fraxinus Mariesii is a flowering ash 

 tree from China. It forms a small tree or 

 large shrub with pinnate leaves — two 

 pairs and a terminal leaflet— and it is said 

 to have pure white delightfully fragrant 

 flowers. Has anvone tried it here? 



The Flower Garden. 



TflE fLOWER GARDEN. 



Because the season is pretty well ad- 

 vanced don't neglect the flower garden. 

 Keep everything neat and clean and ap- 

 pearing to the best advantage. Although 

 the summer has been so veri- dry that 

 Jananese anemones are short, and there 

 is hardly any sfcond crop of delphiniums, 

 and the salvias have made poor flowers, 

 and the asters haven't grown to half 

 their size, and so on through the whole 

 garden, we have much to be thankful for, 

 and we can note a few lessons. 



.Vmong annuals, French marigolds, 

 gaillardias, globe amaranths, petunias, 

 zinnias, sweet alyssum.Drummond phlox, 

 nasturtiums and verbenas have done ex- 

 ceedingly well. Sohavethenierembcrgias, 

 blooming all the time. 



Single flowered geraniums have stood 

 the drouth better than double ones; on 

 the other hand as soon as the rain came 

 it destroyed the show of singles more 

 than of doubles. 



Nothing has bloomed better than the 

 blue and white Cape plumbagos, and the 

 white, red-eye, and purple flowered 

 vincas. 



The summer hyacinth m succession has 

 been bloommg for months. Clematis pan- 

 iculata is a snowy fleece, Pyrethrum 

 uliginosum is nearing its best, perennial 

 sunflowers and asters of several kinds are 

 in good bloom, early planted carnations 

 have many fragrant flowers, we are cut- 

 ting June-planted gladioli, cannas are in 



the height of perfection, where dahlias do 

 well they are in fine form, the later trlto- 

 mas hold aloft their fiery torches and all 

 manner of vines— moonflowers, dawn- 

 flowers, coba>a, lophospermum, white, 

 and blue solanums, aristolochias, and 

 others are in their heydey. 



Work to do in the Borders.— Pull 

 out all old waste annuals, their presence 

 after their beauty is passed is an eye-sore. 

 Cut over all dead stems of hardy peren- 

 nials, and strip off" dead and decaying 

 leaves and clear them all awaj'. Put a 

 stake to the hardy asters, and sun- 

 flowers in the borders to make them 

 look tidy, but tie them up loosely and 

 don't let the stake appear near the top 

 of the plants, nor the tying be visible. 

 .\ny seedlings that spring up in the 

 borders, if needed may be saved either 

 where they are or lifted and planted 

 thickly in another reserve bed to be kept 

 there till next spring. Among such are 

 hollyhocks, delphiniums, coreopsis, cen- 

 trauthus, pyrethrums and the like in the 

 way of hardy perennials, and coreopsis, 

 larkspur, poppies, gilias and the like in 

 the line of annuals. 



Pick up all the pansies that are coming 

 up in the borders and plant them some- 

 what thickly in store beds by themselves 

 outside or in frames. A.nd you had better 

 sow some more for sprit g blooming out- 

 side. 



Get together your daisies. Even the 

 old dried up roots, if the3^ show a few 

 pieces having green leaves will, if lifted 

 ami planted in a frame, recuperate won- 

 derfully before winter sets in and form a 

 solid mat before spring. 



Gather together the little forge f-me- 

 nots to winter in a frame for spring 

 planting, or failing that sow some dissiti- 

 £ora seed in a box or frame for flowers 

 next spring. 



.Although Canterbury bells may prove 

 hardly enough mixed among the other 

 plants in sheltered borders if they are 

 covered a little in winter, we get our 

 plants together about this time and 

 plant them in a cold frame, from which 

 we transplant them to the open border 

 in spring. Plants raised from seed now, 

 unless grown in a cool greenhouse all 

 winter are apt to be too late tor bloom- 

 ing next spring, for really the plant is a 

 biennial, and not an annual. 



Crown anemones, Heuchera sanguinea, 

 and some others we raised from seed 

 and have now in boxes we will plant 

 thickly into a frame to stay there till 

 spring, when we shall set them outside. 



Gather all the seeds you want, for your 

 own saved seeds, if your flowers had 

 been good, are as good as what you can 

 buy. Among these seeds may be zinnias, 

 IJrummond phlox, salvia, petunias, core- 

 opsis, sweet peas, nasturtiums, mignon- 

 ette, gaura, marigolds, sweet alyssum, 

 stocks, asters, and so forth. Speaking 

 of mignonette, reminds us that we heard 

 recently that there is no white fragrant 

 mignonette, what is known as the white 

 mignonette (Reseda alba) is a perennial 

 and not fragrant at all. Now that is all 

 nonsense. Reseda odorata only is mig- 

 nonette, R. alba isn't mignonette at all. 

 Butaside from that, wegrow Garrawav's 

 white mignonette, and it is just as white 

 as R. alba, and as fragrant as any other 

 mignonette. At the same time along- 

 side Machet and such other large flow- 

 ered sorts it isn't worth growing. As a 

 general thing these kinds are very little 

 grown except in gnenhouses, but they 

 are just as good for outside work as 

 Miles' large-flowered. Crimson King, 

 Golden Queen,orany of theother common 

 sorts. 



Propagating Plants for Next Year. 

 — W'e always put in a stock of cuttings of 

 geraniums, ageratura, coleus, alternan- 

 thera, double petunias, and the like itt 

 August or September — thisjearin .A.ugust 

 and they are all rooted and boxed and 

 potted off" now — because it is so much 

 easier to keep them over winter than it is. 

 to lift a lot of old plants and save them. 

 We make the cuttings in the ordinary 

 way and plant them in a bed of sand on 

 a bench in the greenhouse, but in boxes, 

 filled with sandy loam, or in a frame, or 

 in fact a shaded border will do. 



But there are lots of plants w-e cannot 

 treat in this way, for instance abutilons, 

 hibiscus, cassias, lemon verbenas, and 

 acalyphas, wood of them made out of 

 doors does not strike easily. We keep 

 over a few plants in pots of them in 

 summer and grow them in thegreenhouse 

 to get more tractable wood from indoors. 

 We may except the lemon verbena, we 

 wait in its case till we get the young 

 growths in spring; or take the ripened 

 wood and cut it into short lengths which 

 we stick into the ground in a pot or box 

 indoors, or for that matter out of doors- 

 in spring, like a grapi vine or currant 

 cutting, and they will grow. 



Salvias, cassias, grevilleas, vincas, pep- 

 per trees, blue gum trees, and the like, all 

 prefer to raise from seed everv year, 

 sowing as early as Januarj- or Februarv. 



BULBS FOR THE FLOWER GARDEN. 



The floral display in our gardens in 

 spring depends largely on the number and 

 variety of bulbous plants we have grow- 

 ing in them, and now is the time to attend 

 to this matter. Tulips, hj'acinths and 

 narcissus furnish the bulk" of the bulb 

 show in spring, but there is a host of 

 other kinds that we ought also to grow. 

 All the varieties of these bulbs that are 

 best for indoor culture are also the best 

 for growing out of doors, butwhileevery 

 kind grows well outside, only certain 

 varieties are satisfactory indoors. Let us 

 deal with them in detail. 



Tulips.— All kinds o( tulips grow well 

 and bloom well out of doors, but the 

 varieties used most out of doors are the 

 same as what we grow in the window or 

 greenhouse, see Gardening, page 409. 

 But don't restrict yourselves to that list.. 

 Start at the beginning with Due Van 

 Thol, mixed and Tournesol,and end with 

 the Bizarres, Bybloemens, and Darwin 

 tuKps, and that brilliant beauty Gesueri- 

 aua. For formal beds thoseof iieathabit, 

 stocky growth, and fine distinct showy 

 flowers should be chosen. Good among 

 these are Bacchus, dark crimson; Belle 

 Alliance, dark scarlet; Brutus, orange 

 crimson with yellow margin, Chrysolora,. 

 yellow; La Reine, white tinged with rose; 

 Rosa Mundi, faint purpHsh rose; Rose 

 Grisdelin, rose and white; and Yellow 

 Prince, yellow. And we can hardly omit 

 Duchess de Parma and Keizer Kroon, 

 both reds margined with yellow; the 

 Pottebakker varieties, scarlet, white and 

 yellow; Royal Standard, white feathered 

 with rosy crimson; and Wouverman, deep 

 purplish violet. Of these named Bacchus, 

 Brutus, DuchesFe de Parma, La Reine, 

 Rosa Mundi, Wouverman, and Y. llosv 

 Prince, bloom at the same time, and at 

 the planter's discretion can be used in 

 panels or rings in the same beds where all 

 are rctpiired to be in flower at once. 



Among double tulips the Tournesol 

 varieties, which are early blooming, are 

 most grown. But also get La Candeur, 

 white; Rex Rubrorum, bright red, Gloria 

 Solis, reddish brown w'ith yellow edge, 

 and Yellow Rose, yellow. These are late 



