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CONTENTS. 



I SHRUI 



Mountain laurel (illus) . 



Hedge plants for Washington •> 



Transplanting trees . 2 



Magnolia grandiflora hardy in Teun 2 



Magnolia patviflora (illus) 3 



The Japanese Rosa rugosa 3 



Teas' weeping mulberry . . 3 



The umbiella pine ol Japan ! ! 3 



Cedrus Atlantica argeulea i 



Fraxinus Mancsii 4 



THE FLOWER GARDEN. 



The flower garden 4 



Bulbs for the flower garden . i 



Parrot tulip? (illus) .'.'.. 5 



Notes from Egandale near Chicago 6 



Wintering various hardy plants (i 



Wild plants in bloom Sept. 4 7 



.\nnuals for sowing in the fall 8 



Some worthy annuals . . S 



Hardy cyclamen . . ! ! 8 



Ageratums, blue aud white . i 



THE GREENHOUSE. 



The greenhouse 8 



Wintering chrysanthemums 9 



THE FRDIT GARDEN. 



Pear Brockworth Park (ilius) 9 



Raspberry, blackberry and currant bushes ... 9 



THE VEGETABLE GARDEN. 



The vegetable garden 11 



Good potatoes 11 



The Japanese climbing cucumber II 



JIUSHROOMS. 



.Mushrooms iu Florida ...... ....... 12 



PUBLISHER'S DEPARTMENT. 



Two dollars a year 14 



Lvcri.iA GRATissiMA aiid Acacia pubcs- 

 cens. If anyone has got plants of these to 

 sell, will they please advise us? 



Bego.nias oltof nooRS.— Thce.xtremely 

 dry weather of this summer has been ver'v 

 adverse to the well beiiijj of tuberous 

 begonias, and it is only by the closest 

 attention to mulching and watering they 

 have been kept in good condition. Hut 

 the Hegonia Xernon is doing well every- 

 where. It is a stockygrower, easily raised 

 from seed, and stands our open summer 

 weather first rate. There are plain green, 

 bronze green, crimson tinged, and yellow 

 leaved varieties of it, and with blossoms 

 varying from white to crimson. And we 

 observe in some pretentious cases where 

 tuberous begonias were planted early in 

 the summer, they are now removed and 

 their places filled with this Vernon 

 begonin. 



A DOUBLE FLOWERED EGYPTIAN LOTCS. 



—Among Mr. Tricker's pond lily exhibit 

 at Atlantic City last month we noticed a 

 double flower of Nelumbium speciosum. 

 Its inner petals were much crowded and 

 there were about a hundred of them. 



Hydrangea paniculata grandiflora 

 may he regarded as the most indispensa- 

 ble shrub in our gardens. It is hardy 

 over a large extent uf country, and easy 

 to grow and sure to bloom, and it blos- 

 soms in August and September, when 

 trees or shrubs in flower are very scarce. 



All-summer-long flowers.— For an 

 unbroken supply of flowers all summer 

 long few things are better than petunias, 

 verbenas, Drummond phlox, gaillardias, 

 geraniums, heliotrope, sweet alyssum, 

 torenia, Vernon begonia. Plumbago 

 capensis, vinca, globe amaranth, and 

 cannas. 



The variegated Japanese hop vine 

 is a perfect gem, the more we see of it the 

 better we like it. Of course people who 

 are averse to variegated plants will have 

 no use for it because it is variegated. Our 

 plants are now in bloom and the mi!t of 

 gray blossc ms against the pillar of dis- 

 tinctly white and green foliage is very 

 beautiful. 



The one thousand flower sun 

 flower is a very tall growing annual 

 with medium sized show)' flowers, yellow 

 with dark center, and although it branches 

 considerably it is more branchy near the 

 top than near the bottom, hence becomes 

 top heavy. Only in a sheltered place will 

 it stand alone without danger of break- 

 ing down by the weight of its own top, 

 let alone a wind and rain storm. 



Hypericum Moserianum is giving great 

 satisfaction where it has been tried, 

 blooming almost perpetually, and it 

 grows well. Mr. Harper of Andorra, 

 Philadelphia, tells us it is perfectly hardy 

 in their grounds. From our own experi- 

 ence we cannot tell how hardy it is here 

 as we haven't given it a lair test. The 

 coming v\ inter, however, we will have 

 plants enough to be able to spare a few 

 to the meiC3' of the weather. 



The Snowberry bush (Srmphoricar- 

 pus racewosus). — .\mong the many orna- 

 mental berried bushes in ripe fruit in our 

 gardens none is more distinct and striking 

 or more heavily laden than this old-fash- 

 ioned shrub. Although it will grow in 

 sterile ground, if you would see it in all 

 its glory, plant it in good soil. Mr, Tem- 

 ple tells us he uses it for planting on the 

 face of steep embankments to bind the 

 banks, and he knows of no plant that 

 does this work any better. 



The Swamp Rose Mallow (Hibiscus 

 moscheutos). Ho k beautiful this is now 

 in the New Jersey meadows, bordering 

 the ditches, even the brackish waters. Its 

 large rosy flowers are very numerous and 

 showy; some of them have a crimson eye, 

 but most of them have not, and many of 

 ihcm are white instead of rose flowered, 

 and white with a crimson eye. .\Ithough 

 the plants arc herbaceous perennials they 

 have the general appearance of shrubs. 

 They make fine garden plants and grow 

 as well inland and far West as they do by 

 the Atlantic seaside, providing the land 

 is somewhat moist. 



The effect of growing pond lilies. 

 One of our readers writes: "Just to show 

 you how these things go, since I started 

 my ponds no less than six of my friends, 

 have built good sized ponds and have 

 been delighted with their success. I feel 

 satisfied that if the subject of aquatics 



was properly kept before the people 

 oftener many of them would avail them- 

 selves of the charms of a water garden. 

 While I suppose we are all more or less 

 inclined to be lazy, here is something that 

 as a lady friend of mine said requires 

 neither watering or weeding." 



Elms. — So destructive is the clra leaf 

 beetle in the eastern states thatmost peo- 

 ple have stopped plantingthese trees, and 

 landscape gardeners do not include them 

 in their lists. There is no visible lessening 

 iu the ravages of the pest, and rather 

 than submit to the whole sumraerlong 

 disfigurement of their home grounds, 

 many people are rooting out their old elm 

 trees. We are doing so at Dosoris. Is 

 there no remedy? No, not a complete one. 

 We have sprayed earnestly and continu- 

 ously, with Paris green, Ift to 200 gal- 

 lons of water, but; we cannot reach the 

 tall trees, b sides, this Paris green business 

 around our homes where young children 

 are at pl.iy and Det animals are at liberty 

 is neither safe nor comfortable. 



Hotbed sashes.— At Floral Park the 

 other day we found Mr. C. H .Mien, the 

 gladiolus and carnation specialist, getting 

 in a lot of 3x6 hotbed sashes, that is he 

 was getting the wooden frames from the 

 factory (one of the builders advertising 

 cypress woodwork in G-^rde-ning) and he 

 was to glaze them himself. The frames 

 are made of clear cypress, and for any 

 size of glass to suit. Use double thick 

 American glass, and in glazing, bed it in 

 putty, also run putty on upper side as 

 well. Amateurs who prefer to get their 

 sashes all ready glazed may also have 

 them done in this way, and lither from 

 the dealers in greenhouse materials or 

 from most any sash and blind factory in 

 any town or city. 



Berried Plants.— Mr. J. T. Templethe 

 nurseryman of Davenport, Iowa, is a 

 crank on thissubject, especially asregards 

 hardy plants. At Dosoris the other day 

 when he saw Crataegus Lielandii w'lth'its 

 load of orange berries he sighed, for the 

 p'ant isn't hardy in Iowa. But v hen he 

 beheld the little'ffosa nidda, a thicket of 

 scarlet fruit, and the limbs of the b ach 

 plum bending under their load of purple 

 plums, and the long vines of Asparagus 

 verticillatus garlands of orange berries he 

 concluded his journey was not iu vain, 

 and he had found desiderata enough to 

 pay him for his trip. Helooked wistfully 

 upon the red drooping strawberry like 

 fruits of Cornus Kousa (Benthamia 

 Japoniai) ' but concluded the plant 

 wouldn't survive in his state. 



Soap suds — Don't use soap suds on 

 your pot plants, tub plants, or set out 

 plants around yourhousel Well w e know 

 that this advice is in direct opposition to 

 stereotyped garden doctrine, but we can 

 not help it. We will not do it ourselves 

 nor allow it to oe done about our doors, 

 we lulieve in neatness, cleanness, and 

 sweetness. The pestiferous, malodorous, 

 and unsightly incrustation left in the 

 ground by the use of soap suds about the 

 house is rlisgusting. .\nd it is unnecessary, 

 for 111. iiiiiMni.il clement (the excuse for 

 usiii'j :. MiiKi contained in the soap 

 suds 1 1, ,iL:iiirnaiit. If th" soil is jioor 

 wc c.iji I iji icli It from the manure yard at 

 the proper time, and clean water «ill 

 che( r the plants as heartily as soap suds 

 Results tell. Try enriched ground and 

 clean water. 



Sturtevant's Goose Flower is the 

 name given in Chicago to Aristolochia 

 gigas var. Slurtev.-iiiLii, a rare and e.x- 



